The central theme in Radiant Infrastructures is the role of media and mediation in producing infrastructure as an affective and epistemological object. The book is set in contemporary India and follows the medial routes of cellular towers and nuclear reactors, two communication and energy infrastructures that are never treated together. Using the evocative notion of “radiance,” Mukherjee entangles them both conceptually and empirically, scrutinizing their similarities and differences, and the ways in which mediation brings up their radiating properties in ways that give traction to civic, scientific and political debates, environmental controversies and agency.

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书评：辐射基础设施：不确定性的媒体，环境和文化，作者：Rahul Mukherjee

辐射基础架构的中心主题是媒体和中介在将基础架构作为情感和认识论对象的过程中的作用。该书以当代印度为背景，遵循蜂窝塔和核反应堆，两个从未被一起处理的通信和能源基础设施的中间路线。穆克吉使用令人回味无穷的“辐射”概念，从概念上和经验上纠缠了他们，仔细研究了它们的异同，以及调解以何种方式发挥其辐射特性，从而吸引了公民，科学和政治辩论，环境争议以及机构。