Infrastructural Brutalism

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Infrastructural Brutalism is written by Michael Truscello and published by MIT Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262358727 (ISBN 10) and 9780262358729 (ISBN 13).

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.