April

“Infrastructural citizenship is not just care at scale, but care in perpetuity.”
― Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

“...infrastructural systems shape the relationships we have with people who will be in these places in the future and the relationships they might have with each other.”
― Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

“Decisions made decades or even centuries ago—how we treat wastewater, the use of alternating current instead of direct current for electricity grids, pipelines laid for fossil fuels—all of these shape not just the technologies and systems in use today but those that haven’t yet been built. That continuity means there’s a path dependence—that the kinds of systems we have today depend on the characteristics of the systems that came before—in addition to growth and accumulation, as these systems build on each other. We now live surrounded by technological systems of nearly unimaginable scale, extent, and complexity.”
― Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

“This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley