Norman Aselmeyer, Historiker am European University Institute in Florenz und Teilnehmer an unserer Transregionalen Akademie »Infrastructures, Regions and Urbanization« reflektiert Fragen und Themen der Akademie, nachzulesen auf unserem TRAFO-Blog.
»In 1999, Susan Leigh Star famously invited fellow researchers to study infrastructure, or what she jokingly called “boring things.” For long, this common-sense notion of infrastructure as being pretty unexciting or dreary contributed to a relative neglect of technological systems in analysing society. In recent years, however, the picture has gradually changed and a host of new studies has made the study of infrastructure thrive.«
