Introduction: Ethnography of(f ) the Grid
Michael Degani · 2022
introduction For Simon and his colleagues, dressed in collared shirts and dusty business shoes, the kijiwe offered a line of sight onto customers entering and exiting the building over the course of the day.Some looked beleaguered, perhaps angry about bills or broken equipment.Others clutched telltale oversized green folders holding applications for new "ser vice lines" that would connect them to the grid.Should they cross the street, among Simon and his colleagues, they would find a pool of "drawers" (vichoraji) who, for a modest price, would provide properly formatted diagrams of their house hold wiring, endorsed by the stamp of a licensed contractor's seal.More conspiratorially, they might find electricians willing to repair or other wise modify their existing ser vice lines.Occasionally, a Tanesco employee would walk over to confer with a K I N O N D O N I