Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (New York: Verso, 2014) A building is shaped to suggest a dynamic blur of motion, or the circulation of inhabitants is mapped with a blizzard of arrows. The more complex or agitated these tracings, the more “active” the form is seen to be. p.81 Active form is not a modernist proposition; it does not replace or succeed object form but rather augments it with additional powers and artistic pleasures. The potential for both kinds of form is always present in any design. Using either is an artistic choice. p.84 Power lies rather in the prospect of shaping a series of activities and relationships over time. p. 85 The extrastatecraft of infrastructure space is artistically and intellectually attracted to the idea of designing action and interplay as well as designing objects. Even though design orthodoxies may favor a training in knowing that, some of the real power players in the world, for whom infrastructure is a secret weapon, would never relinquish their faculties for designing both object and active form—for knowing that and knowing how. p.85