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Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at Yale. She is the author of Extrastatecraft, which was named Archinect's Best Book of 2005, and Organization Space. She is also the author of two essay length books: The Action is the Form and Subtraction. Her writing and design work was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design and the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking.Establishes Keller Easterling's growing reputation as the savviest student of post-national spatial and infrastructural forms.
- Arjun Appadurai, author of The Future as Cultural Fact, [for Extrastatecraft]
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.
- Architectural Review, [for Extrastatecraft]
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 Expulsions, [for Extrastatecraft]
This is a remarkable work. Keller Easterling has written one of the most original works about the American environment I've ever read.
- Michael Sorkin, [on Enduring Innocence]
Easterling is one of our most provocative theorists of infrastructures and the critical actions that might make them better. Here she gives us ways to remix, radically, their ingredients. Who else could parse the "canine mind" of the canny designer and city-dweller to show that we already know how to break the deadlock formed by binaries and manipulative media loops? Read this immensely engaging book to find a new toolkit for infiltrating, occupying, and recasting the mediated and material world.
- Caroline A. Jones, Professor in the Department of Architecture, MIT,
Easterling wants designers and architects and urbanists to think less about designing discrete things and more about "parameters for how things interact with each other.
- Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine
Medium Design actively works against popular culture's hunger for simple solutions. While embracing a diversity of tactics for a diversity of crises, Easterling puts forward an expansive definition of "design" that includes examples of systemic hacks like community land trusts and tactical refusals of market norms like social capital credits.
- Ingrid Burrington, OneZero
An insurgent energy and imagination crackle beneath the surface ... this a hopeful and thrilling text.
- David Terrien, ArtReview
Keller Easterling is a thinker intent on peering behind the veil to inquire into the forces and conditions that give rise to forms and spatial formations: the infrastructural, political, and financial milieux that softly but surely govern the production of architectural objects.
- Kearon Roy Taylor, Archinect
Easterling's work turns reason's cunning - and therefore the indirect acts of history - into a vibrant political theater for our age.
- Michael Osman, Los Angeles Review of Books
At its best, Medium Design reads a bit like Sun Tzu. It is calm and distant from the fray of disasters and conflicts that define our collective action or inaction in the midst of climate crises and failed globalization. Easterling's voice tends toward the wise and poetic.
- V. Mitch Mcewen, The Avery Review
In case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, Medium Design looks not to new innovations but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but put them together into productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organization of all kinds