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Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. She is the author of Organization Space and Enduring Innocence, which was named Archinect's Best Book of 2005. Easterling is also the author of two essaylength books: an ebook, The Action Is the Form: Victor Hugo's TED Talk and a forthcoming book Subtraction. Her writing and design work will be included in the 2014 Venice Biennale. Easterling lectures widely in the US and abroad and contributes to, among others, Domus, Artforum, Grey Room, E-Flux, Cabinet and Volume.<i>Extrastatecraft</i> is an essential text for anyone with a stake in the built environment, architect and citizen alike, in articulating the forces that shape our nation-states, and cataloguing-in a precise and readable style-the strategies of an otherwise unaccountable global order.
- Jack Self, Architectural Review
I have long admired Keller Easterling's talent for extracting a space, a shape, a marking, from mixes of elements rarely brought together-whether materially or conceptually. In <i>Extrastatecraft</i> she does it at a grand scale, cutting across fields of meaning and of practice. A must read.
- Saskia Sassen, author of <i>Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy</i>,
An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world, <i>Extrastatecraft</i> is a pivotal and beautifully written excavation of the hidden geographies of globalisation. 'Free' trade zones, optic fibre networks, credit cards, mobile phones, economic and financial rules . all emerge as charged elements within an often invisible geography that could not be more important. <i>Extrastatecraft</i> works to politicise and expose the prosaic and taken-for-granted hardware of our world.
- Stephen Graham, author of <i>Cities Under Siege</i>,
A breathtaking journey along the material and immaterial infrastructures that continuously shape contemporary global space. Information flows of financial, legal or military nature congeal into wide arrays of strange 'spatial products,' extraterritorial 'zones' and building nodes. From within the logic of these pervasive systems, Easterling poses the most urgent political challenge facing spatial activists today, and shows how the search for justice must retool to outsmart the immanent violence of Extrastatescraft.
- Eyal Weizman (author of <i>Hollow Land</i>) and Ines Weizman,
<i>Extrastatecraft</i> establishes Keller Easterling's growing reputation as the savviest student of postnational spatial and infrastructural forms. Bringing together architecture, coding, digitalization and logistics, she exposes the nervous system of the new logics of domination through information and proposes a cunning counter-politics of humor, discommunication and disguise. A must read for all varieties of critical students of space and sovereignty in this emerging century.
- Arjun Appadurai, author of <i>The Future as Cultural Fact</i>,
A provocative study of infrastructure, the operating system governing everyday life.
- Jay Owens, Icon
Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraftwill change how we think about cities-and, perhaps, how we live in them.