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Nature is infrastructure

ghakim

Writing against the ecology/infrastructure divide. Nature becomes infrastructure "through work" - technopolitics & environmental politics become inextricably intertwined. Marxist framework, environment as being modified through human labor.

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rramos

This article from 2009 focuses on the controversy of a garbage incenerator in the Ironbound that has sparked civil engagements to make the facility practice clean emmisions. Despite their reports of emmision reductions in 2005, the community argued that the garbage incenereator looked over many occassions where they violated those regulations, and how it still effects those communities. Here we see how the governments and people's interest don't line up.