Magic: The madness of infrastructures

In the objects it embodies as in the speeches and the imaginations that it produces, infrastructure draws its legitimacy from a rhetoric based on the omnipotence of reason. But what happens to the infrastructure when she finds herself displaced into a field which would in principle be foreign to her, that of “magic”: from the fantastic to the marvelous, from superstition to sacred, from illusion to enchantment? By exploring the unexpected encounter of the irrational and infrastructure through different objects – mountains Russians, mining installations, highways or even atmospheric cinema – or by reviewing the theory of architecture in the light of these notions a a priori contradictory, Magie demonstrates that infrastructure also generates projects that escape his reasons. Through his contributions, this This work offers a new reading of the imaginary and the symbolic scope of infrastructure. Published under the scientific direction of Dominique Rouillard and Marie Artuphel, with contributions from researchers and researchers from the Infrastructure, Architecture, Territory Laboratory (LIAT): Marie Artuphel, Carlotta Darò, Gilles Delalex, Marion Emery, Alain Guiheux, Renzo Lecardane, Luca Merlini, Can Onaner, Yann Rocher, Dominique Rouillard, Marika Rupeka, Zeila Tesoriere, Xiaoli Wei.