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Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta is one of the world’s fastest sinking cities. Land subsidence, primarily caused by excessive groundwater extraction, damages infrastructure and buildings, and contributes to worsened flood events and tidal inundation. Land subsidence was first identified as an issue in 1989, yet groundwater extraction has only recently been regulated. Meanwhile, city authorities have focused on implementing large-scale infrastructural interventions to reduce the impacts of flooding. This article analyzes why land subsidence remained unaddressed for so long. To do so, it explores the politics of infrastructure in Jakarta through the lens of in/visibility. Scholarship in infrastructure studies has tended to categorize infrastructure as either hyper-visible by design, or invisible until breakdown. This study extends theoretical engagements with infrastructure by examining how visibility, aesthetics, and materiality converge to shape urban and water governance in Jakarta in fundamental ways. Spectacular, visible infrastructures generate public and political attention, while below ground, hidden and invisible infrastructures are overlooked and politically unpopular to address. This “politics of visibility” articulates with a mode of aesthetic governmentality with uneven consequences for Jakarta’s residents.
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This article experiments with the basis for a geopolitical aesthetics of the subterranean. It does so using a particular ‘Volcanic Incident’ – the brief emergence of Ferdinandea island in the Mediterranean in 1831 – and a range of visual and textual inscriptions around this geophysical event – from the art work Emergent Landmass (A Chronicle of Disappearance) [2006] by artist Ilana Halperin to military dispatches. Bringing together these various sources the article considers firstly how the subterranean might ‘unground’ geopolitical ideas and practices, and secondly how we come to know, or to sense subterranean volumes, an important aspect of controlling them. Evolving propositions around a geopolitical subterranean aesthetics, the article explores concerns with a subterranean optics, with the sensing of dynamic earth systems, and with issues around scale with respect to concerns with the geologic. From within the context of this specific case study, the article reflects on how it is that subterranean aesthetics might have wider purchase on the relations between terrains and territory, the vertical and the volumetric, and the geopolitical, geophysical and geopower.
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