Lachlan Kermode
To put it more plainly, infrastructure is political philosophy materially at work. The physical infrastructures that we live with – hospitals, homes, schools, office buildings – produce space in the Lefebvrian sense [8]. Just as the physical constitution of a building parameterizes the scope of social relations that can exist in and around it, the contours of code in an operating system are the precondition for data that can emerge from its use. Space’s particular productions – that is, infrastructure – whether they are analogue or digital, make some kinds of lives possible, and foreclose others. Consequently, the production of space is an inherently political operation. The capacity to determine the structure of spaces is a matter of power. Power produces space, and space produces life.
deconstructing urbit