INFRASTRUCTURAL RUPTURES: ANXIETIES, BORDERS, AND CLOUDS
Journal: AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
Year: 2026

The rapidly changing geopolitical landscape forces us to rethink the relation between infrastructure, politics, control, and power. This panel contributes to discussions on ruptures by exploring how digital infrastructures reconfigure the state, market, and citizen nexus and presenting research approaches that interrogate transnational networks by centring their materiality. Jointly, the papers showcase how infrastructures are used as a continuation of politics with material means. The authors p