This article develops a wider ontology of infrastructure. It argues that infrastructures not only hasten the flow of materials but produce non-human mobilities and immobilities that radically alter the dynamics of life. Infrastructures become a medium of life as natural and infrastructural ecologies meld, reorienting notions of design, architecture, planning and governance. Non-human life itself can be cast as infrastructure, with biopolitical implications for anticipating and managing the future. An infrastructural ontology moving beyond anthropocentric familiars generates new analytics and critical openings for the politics of governing human and non-human life.

本文开发了基础架构的更广泛的本体。它认为，基础设施不仅加速了物质流动，而且产生了非人类的机动性和动静性，从根本上改变了生活的动力。随着自然和基础设施生态的融合，基础设施成为生活的媒介，重新定位了设计，建筑，规划和治理的概念。非人类生活本身可以被视为基础设施，对预期和管理未来具有生物政治意义。超越以人类为中心的熟悉的基础设施本体为管理人类和非人类生活的政治提供了新的分析方法和重要的开端。