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Keller easterling with bruno carvalho, extrastatecraft. Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government. Strelka press has published the latest essay by architect, writer, and yale professor keller easterling. Keller easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world s largest shared platform, to the free zone, the most virulent new world city paradigm.
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