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Krasny, Elke. ‘Implicated in Care. Haunted by Protection. The Violence of Stone and Bronze Bodies.” 2022

Krasny, Elke. ‘Implicated in Care. Haunted by Protection. The Violence of Stone and Bronze Bodies.” 2022In Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems, edited by Hélène Frichot et al, 113-119, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022.

While one can argue that water, sewage, or power are essential to human survival and that bronze and stone bodies are not es-sential in quite the same way, seeing them as infrastructural components of public urban environments is helpful in under-standing how these bodies configure a dis-tinctly modern system that renders those considered makers of History permanently present.

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