An essay collection exploring the past and future infrastructural interventions into the Mississippi River.

Taking as a starting point its concerns with the past infrastructural interventions into the Mississippi River as well those developments still to come, three of Field Station 1’s primary organizers, Morgan Adamson, Bruce Braun, and Roopali Phadke, have commissioned a collection of essays to explore these conditions further. In this introductory text, they foreground the entanglement of social, political and ecological tributaries that comprise the post-industrial river and are considered in the essays that follow.