Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication

1The hearth of darkness

Living within occult infrastructures

Stephen C. Slota, Aubrey Slaughter, and Geoffrey C. Bowker

Infrastructure is the story of what happens when the “real story” is taking place. Behind the spectacles of permanent technocultural revolution, effervescent personal expression, and the vertiginous proliferation of new modes of expression lies the operation of physical, computing, organizational forms of action (dispositifs). Often, the most visible products of our culture reflect and represent substantive changes in infrastructure and infrastructural capacity – behind the scenes of film production are attendant infrastructures of chemical reactions and assorted associated refinements for film development, broadly available ...