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Care at Scale - Comment Magazine

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Bodies, agency, and infrastructure.

On the first day of the semester at the engineering college outside Boston where I teach, my first-year students and I leave the classroom and go out to the grounds, then walk along an unprepossessing grassy berm and out to the main road. It’s a modern campus, all plate glass and blonde wood, so it generally comes as a surprise when we arrive at a small, brick building, obviously much older than the college and set where a small stream crosses our path. That’s when my students realize that they’ve been walking on a water main—the Sudbury Aqueduct, constructed in 1878 to bring clean water…

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