Author : Michael Truscello
Release : 2020-09-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Infrastructural Brutalism by : Michael Truscello
Download or read book Infrastructural Brutalism written by Michael Truscello. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this "infrastructural brutalism"--a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological brutality of industrial infrastructures.