Collective Equipments of Power: The Road and the City

Brott, Simone

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“…The collaborative projects that Foucault contributed towards, particularly the Centre d’Études, de Recherche et de Formation Institutionnelle (CERFI), examined how vital infrastructures of urban life –– hospitals, schools, transport networks, utilities, parks and housing –– technologically extended the reach of the modern state into the private sphere through public services and expertise. The group interpreted infrastructure as the collective unconscious of the city, constituting a type of affective circuitry, which provides machines for the production of subjectivity and channelling of desire (Brott, ). Although this material is largely unpublished in English, a series of reports were produced under the working title ‘Equipments of power’, which examined how urban habitats are formed, sustained and regulated in an everyday register through the infrastructural management of circulation and the distribution of public goods (Elden, ).…”

Section: Governmentality Infrastructure and The ‘Mechanical Arts’mentioning

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Conduct of Conduits: Engineering, Desire and Government through the Enclosure and Exposure of Urban Water

Usher

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article scrutinizes the relationship between governmental reform and infrastructural change in Singapore. Focusing on the role of engineers, it is argued that neoliberal decentralization has occurred through the physical reconfiguration of drainage. Neoliberalization is conceived as a localized technical response to a public health crisis resulting from infrastructural enclosure, which is orchestrated on and through the material‐ecological environment. A closed drainage system consisting of trapezoidal canals and concrete culverts had produced an ideal breeding environment for dengue‐carrying mosquitoes, undermining the state's centralized approach to water governance. This article reorients Michel Foucault's analytics of government around engineering and the ‘milieu’ to consider how drainage infrastructure was consequently opened up to an emerging civil society to relieve pressure on the state and allow greater public participation in the surveillance and management of canals, pipes and culverts. Alongside landscape architects, engineers would increasingly turn to naturalized waterways and open catchment policy to encourage citizens to form an affective bond with water and to inculcate principles of individual ownership and responsibility through physical contact. The article contends that with the proliferation of integrated resource management systems, governmental power is increasingly exercised through the liveliness as well as the fetishization of urban infrastructure.

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Section: Governmentality Infrastructure and The ‘Mechanical Arts’mentioning

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Conduct of Conduits: Engineering, Desire and Government through the Enclosure and Exposure of Urban Water

Usher

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Evaluation of Emergency Radical Surgical Interventions in Patients With Complicated Colorectal Cancer

Shaeva

Ачкасов

2017

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OBJECTIVE: to evaluate oncological outcomes of surgical procedures performed in emergency conditions for complicated colorectal cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: we studied data of 1098 patients who underwent emergency surgery for complicated colorectal cancer in hospitals of Smolensk during the period from 2001 to 2013. RESULTS: 888 pathology reports of specimen assessment were analyzed. In 33 (11,5%) of 286 cases of rectal cancer distal resection margin was positive and 102 (35,7%) cases were CRM(+). Tumor growth was also registered at the distal margin in 4 (6%) of 67 patients with rectosigmoid cancer. In the majority of cases (68,1%) the lymph node harvest did not exceed 3. 12 or more lymph nodes were assessed in 50 (5,6%) of888 removed specimens only. CONCLUSION: The analysis of treatment results revealed that inadequate number of lymph nodes examined as well as R1 resection affected cancer-specific survival.

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Collective Equipments of Power: The Road and the City

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Conduct of Conduits: Engineering, Desire and Government through the Enclosure and Exposure of Urban Water

Conduct of Conduits: Engineering, Desire and Government through the Enclosure and Exposure of Urban Water

Evaluation of Emergency Radical Surgical Interventions in Patients With Complicated Colorectal Cancer

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