Historically, in civilizations:
- a culture without infrastructure is like a ghost, a soul that wanders through eternity with no body (think Byzantine Empire) 
- infrastructure with no culture is like a machine -- what is that? I'd say something akin to the Soviet Union, but even that had culture itself. Or  the Cultural Revolution could also be seen as an attempt to reorient culture and infrastructure toward a new vision, but - once again, it isn't that it didn't have culture, or a soul - just something radically different than what was before

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

“Infrastructure with no culture” → Chinese ghost cities? Even when people live there, there’s not much else there: no regional attachment or distinction, etc.

civilization exists in superposition - simultaneously culture and infrastructure until observed through time, where societies collapse into either enduring ideas or physical remnants. perhaps what's most interesting is the entanglement between meaning and matter - even the soviet union's brutalist concrete contained encoded cultural values. true resilience emerges precisely at the boundary where physical structures and invisible narratives reinforce rather than oppose each other