Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add.

Bowker & Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Simon & Marvin, Splintering Urbanism — kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital

Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design (NSF report with some lit review)

Starosielski, The Undersea Network

Check the books in my Infrastructures book series, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, Standards: Recipes for Reality

Also this very recent paper on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”!

Best,

Paul




On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

Thanks!

Dag
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