Infrastructural Being: Rethinking Dwelling in a Naturecultural World
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I Opening Wor(l)ds -- 1 Introduction -- Naturecultural Imagination in Times of Environmental Damage -- References -- 2 Approaching Infrastructural Being -- Naturecultural Approach to Infrastructures -- Infrastructural Being as Metabolism -- Politics of Metabolism -- More-Than-Human Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Future-Making -- 3 Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures -- Introduction -- Infrastructures as Anticipatory Devices -- Visions of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructures -- Integrating Distributed Energy Resources -- Load-Shifting -- Energy Market and Price Motivations -- Questioning Anticipatory Infrastructures -- Automated Futures Visions as Ethnographic Sites -- Laundry as a Contingent Practice and Ethics of Care -- Solar Optimisation, Gamification and Everyday Ethics -- Automated Systems and Everyday Irregularities -- Towards the Ethics of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructure -- References -- 4 Assembling Wild Nature: Icelandic Wildness as a Natureculture Meshwork -- Introduction -- Before the Journey -- The Golden Circle -- First Stop: Thingvellir -- Second Stop: Geysir -- Third Stop: Gullfoss -- After the Journey -- References -- Part III Naturecultural Citizenship -- 5 The Social Class and Lifestyle Embeddedness of Being Within Energy Infrastructures -- Introduction: Energy Infrastructures as Class Positioning -- Class, Habitus, and Lifestyle Groups -- The Empirical Case and Data -- Class, Habitus, and Infrastructural Being -- Differentiating Life Chances -- Embedded in Lifestyle Groups -- Durable Materiality -- Action Orienting -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Circular Economy as Infrastructural Change: Waste Citizenship in the Bin -- Introduction.