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Title: Introduction - Digital Infrapuncture
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Slug: 01-s1-introduction-digital-infrapuncture
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Date: 2020-11-01 12:00
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Summary: "Digital infrapuncture" is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception of the stress points that an infrastructure could have.
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"Digital infrapuncture" is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception of the stress points that an infrastructure could have. In a talk she presented in 2016 called *Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of "Digital Infrapuncture"*[^DigitalInfrapuncture], Verhoeven develops this concept in relation to the field of digital humanities.
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Informed by the work of scholar Nowviskie (Nowviskie 2015)[^Nowviskie], Verhoeven asks for a rethinking of digital infrastructures in terms of capacity and care, by *"developing an appreciation for where it hurts, where the sense of pain is in the worlds that we inhabit and study"* and creating small scale interventions which can enkindle transformation on a larger scale.
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In her presentation, she describes digital infrastructures according to their:
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* capacity to create the conditions of possibility for connection
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* their capacity for repair (Jackson, 2014)[^Jackson]
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* and their capacity to bring things (back) together
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If we understand an infrastructure as a relational device, or in other words as a technology that bring things (back) together, we can start to critical read them through these features.
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Who is an infrastructure bringing together?
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How are these connections constructed and formatted?
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What are the conditions and possibilities for connection they provide?
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Where do they not connect and concequently exclude people?
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[something to bridge to the punctuating part]
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And who can actually intervene in these processes?
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# Links & Further readings
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[^DigitalInfrapuncture]: Verhoeven, Deb. "Opening Keynote: Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of 'Digital Infrapuncture'" *Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School* (2016) [https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/opening-keynote-identifying-point-it-all-towards-model-digital-infrapuncture](https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/opening-keynote-identifying-point-it-all-towards-model-digital-infrapuncture)
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[^Nowviskie]: Nowviskie, Bethany. "On Capacity and Care" *Bethany Nowviskie* (2015) Accessed 18 September, 2020. [http://nowviskie.org/2015/on-capacity-and-care/](http://nowviskie.org/2015/on-capacity-and-care/)
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[^Jackson]: Jackson, Steven J. "Rethinking Repair" *Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society* (2014): 221-239. [https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/Jackson_RethinkingRepair(MITPress2014).pdf](https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/Jackson_RethinkingRepair(MITPress2014).pdf)
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