For over sixteen years, I have been tracing and retracing an idea through a set of projects involving the political economy and cultural politics of infrastructure—especially, the infrastructure of media. When I began those projects as a graduate student, my concern was a frustration with the image-centered studies of media and culture, which tended to get bogged down in representational politics and a focus on the micropolitics of interpretation and use. Infrastructure attracts similar debates, as anything from a train tunnel to a water use meter can be appropriated and used in unauthorized or subversive ways. The physicality of infrastructure and the relationships it has with the materiality of ideas, ideologies, and social processes is a growing dimension of cultural inquiry around inequality and power, especially in the study of electronic devices. In this article, I will report on a strand of my research that explores an urban history of interactive media that unfolds into our contemporary world of automated ecologies of surveillance, marketing, disinformation, and covert politics. In recent iterations, this strand intersects with the increasingly popular concept of the ‘right to the city.’

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感觉和城市权的基础设施

十六年来，我一直通过一系列涉及基础设施（尤其是媒体基础设施）的政治经济学和文化政治的项目来追踪和追溯一个想法。当我以研究生的身份开始这些项目时，我的关注点是对以图像为中心的媒体和文化研究感到沮丧，这些研究趋于陷入代表性政治，而侧重于解释和使用的微观政治。基础设施引起了类似的争论，因为从火车隧道到水表的任何东西都可以以未经授权或颠覆的方式使用和使用。基础设施的物理性以及与思想，意识形态和社会过程的实质性之间的关系，是围绕不平等和权力进行文化研究的一个日益增长的方面，特别是在电子设备的研究中。在本文中，我将报告我的一小部分研究成果，该研究探索了互动媒体在城市中的历史，这些历史在当今的监视，市场营销，虚假信息和秘密政治的自动化生态世界中得以展现。在最近的迭代中，这条线与日益流行的“城市权”概念相交。