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This seminar focuses on social science and historical research into how large-scale, socio-technical systems have become deeply embedded in the lived reality of modernity, paradoxically bringing us closer to people and regions at greater spatial distances, while also allowing us to operate without much cognition or thought toward these people or regions. The class will explore how these systems -- such as electrical grids, water management systems, transportation networks, and others -- operate and the kinds of sociality they enable.