Speculative Infrastructures

The anthology centers on Klara Debeljak’s original concept of ‘speculative infrastructures,’ which she defines as networks and collectives that challenge dominant techno-social systems through creative, real-world practices and imagine new ways of organizing, ownership, and resistance—often from within or alongside existing institutions.

Culminating from Debeljak’s two-year residency at Švicarija, the volume brings together ten diverse essays exploring alternative pathways for community-building and information circulation in analogue and digital spaces.

The book features an introductory text by Debeljak analyzing infrastructural theory, introducing the readers to the concept of speculative infrastructures and contextualizing the included essays.
The collection comprises of nine additional essays presenting DIY publishing practices from Amsterdam to Ramallah, radio initiatives from Vis to Topolò in context of digital and analog forms of resistance against the gentrification of both the internet and urban spaces. Speculative Infrastructures, Outposts in Collapsing Realities weaves examples of autonomous internet and spatial infrastructures as well as speculative and feminist/science fiction perspectives.

The publication aims to contextualize contemporary initiatives in publishing, spatial experimentation, and the development of discourses and communities that shift existing infrastructures. By building new or alternative pathways for the circulation of information, these initiatives challenge official and dominant representations of space and power.