This course draws upon writings from anthropology, geography, sociology, science and technology studies, and the humanities to explore how infrastructures organize and are organized by cultural, economic, political, and social life. What is the genealogy of infrastructures in the contemporary world? What do these infrastructures enable the movement of, and how? What does an ethnography of infrastructures look like? How does studying infrastructure push our thinking of the political in liberal democracies and under capitalism? And what can these studies reveal about questions of violence, racism, and inequality on a global scale?