Aaron Pinnix is a postdoctoral researcher in American studies at Universität Konstanz in Germany. His research is on ocean-focused poetry that conjoins ecological and social justice.
Axel Volmar is currently a guest professor at the Institute for Music and Media at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research is on media history, media theory, and the praxeology of media, intersecting with the history of science, infrastructure studies, and disability studies.
Fernando Esposito is assistant professor at the Department of Modern History at Universität Konstanz. His habilitation deals with the transformation of European understandings of time and history and the chronopolitics that arose from modern temporality.
Nora Binder is a postdoctoral researcher in the history of the human and social sciences at Universität Konstanz. Her current project investigates the epistemology of human interrelations within applied psychology and its ties with the concept of social competence (1930-1970). In her doctoral thesis Kurt Lewin und die Psychologie des Feldes (2023) she scrutinizes early experimental social psychology and the beginnings of group dynamics.

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Contents 5
Introduction 11
From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities 31
From Systems to "Infrastructuring": Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media 51
Language as Infrastructure 67
Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering 75
Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction 87
On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media 97
Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture 107
Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures 117
Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s) 125
Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 141
Spiritual Infrastructures 155
Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity 163
Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church 173
Infrastructural Poetics 183
Queering Infrastructures of Romance 191
Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector 201
Water for a Good Government: Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala's Chronicle (1615) 211
The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead" 227
Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi (2009) 235
Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures 243
Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century 251
Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization 259
Authors 269