This article is an ethnographic study of potholes in roads in urban India. The article describes different forms of attention to potholes, including cases of media advocacy, clinical reflections on injury and attempts by an accident survivor to document danger on the roads. Throughout, it argues for attention to the embodiment of infrastructure, and particularly, how people move through infrastructures. The article stems from a broader research project about traumatic injury from traffic accidents, many due to potholes. Taking these cases as sentinels of urban wound culture, the article asks: What if urban theory took wounding as a characteristic feature of everyday urbanism? What might this mean for studies of infrastructure’s affordances, risks and embodiment?

本文是对印度城市道路坑洼的人种学研究。这篇文章描述了对坑洼的不同形式的关注，包括媒体宣传，对伤害的临床反思以及事故幸存者试图记录道路危险的尝试。在整个过程中，它都要求关注基础架构的体现，尤其是人们如何在基础架构中移动。本文源自有关交通事故造成的创伤伤害的更广泛的研究项目，其中许多事故是由于坑洼造成的。文章以这些案例为城市伤口文化的前哨，提出了以下问题：如果城市理论将伤口作为日常城市化的特征，该怎么办？这对于基础设施的承受能力，风险和体现的研究意味着什么？