Western societies have been shown to generate a permanent crisis of attention. Jonathan Crary has masterfully documented and studied the surge of questions about attention during the last quarter of the 19 th century, in connection with the extension of industrialism, advertisement, electricity, new media and experimental psychology. Enrico Campo recently published a remarkably synthetic and critical view of what our first quarter of the 21 st century describes and experiences as its own attentional crisis, in connection with neoliberal governance, globalization, digital media and the threat of ecological collapse. It may be relevant (even though not original) to put the results of their studies in relation with the major changes in infrastructure that took place during these two periods. Industrialization and digitalization, intimately linked to each other, have not only dramatically transformed our external environments (landscapes, urbanization, architectures, work relations), they have also deeply altered our modes of sensing, feeling, experiencing the world we live in. As ready-to-use systems of substrates providing an often invisible background to our activities, infrastructures are matter that enable the movement of other matter. Their peculiar ontology lies in the facts that they are things and also the relation between things. […] Roads and railways are not just technical objects, but also operate on the level of fantasy and desire.