{"id":5067,"date":"2011-06-20T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2011-06-20T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:29:25","slug":"a-coordinated-infrastructural-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/a-coordinated-infrastructural-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;a coordinated infrastructural ensemble&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a great little piece for <em>Domus<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domusweb.it\/en\/architecture\/open-source-design-02-wikileaks-guidecritical-infrastructure\/\">Geoff Manaugh looks<\/a> at what the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Foreign_Dependencies_Initiative\">&#8220;critical foreign dependencies&#8221; cable<\/a> says about the nature of the contemporary nation-state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The sites described by the cable\u2014Israeli ordnance manufacturers, Australian pharmaceutical corporations, Canadian hydroelectric dams, German rabies vaccine suppliers\u2014form a geometry whose operators and employees are perhaps unaware that they define the outer limits of US national security. Put another way, the flipside of a recognisable US border is this unwitting constellation: a defensive perimeter or\u00a0<em>outsourced inside,<\/em> whereby the contiguous nation-state becomes fragmented into a discontiguous\u00a0<em>networkstate,<\/em> its points never in direct physical contact. It is thus not a constitutional entity in any recognised sense, but a coordinated infrastructural ensemble that spans whole continents at a time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, not only is <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/owens-lake\/\">Wyoming in Los Angeles<\/a>; but America is in Canada, or Canada is in America, or both at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a great little piece for Domus, Geoff Manaugh looks at what the &#8220;critical foreign dependencies&#8221; cable says about the nature of the contemporary nation-state: &#8220;The sites described by the cable\u2014Israeli ordnance manufacturers, Australian pharmaceutical corporations, Canadian hydroelectric dams, German rabies vaccine suppliers\u2014form a geometry whose operators and employees are perhaps unaware that they define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,353,29,15],"tags":[618],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-futures","category-geography","category-infrastructure","tag-critical-foreign-dependencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}