critical infrastructure lab

bi- weekly tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 cest/cet* (once every two weeks)
facilitated by niels@criticalinfralab.net

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October 29th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Introduction + Chapter 1 // The Apple II Age – Introduction
November 12th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 2 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 1
November 26th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 3 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 2
December 10th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 4 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 3
January 7th, 2025 – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 5 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 4
January 21st – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 6 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 5
February 4th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 7 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 6
February 18th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 8 + Conclusion // The Apple II Age – Chapter 7
March 4th – The Apple II Age – Inconclusions + Epilogue
March 18th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 1
April 1st – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 2
April 15th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 3
April 29th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 4
May 13th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 5
May 27th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 6
June 10th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 7
June 24th – European Objects and Lifelines of our Society – Chapter 8 and conclusion
July 8st – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 1
July 22nd – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 2
August 5th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 3
August 19th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 4
September 2nd – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 5
September 16th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 6
September 30th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 7
October 14th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 8
October 28th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 9
November 11th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 10
November 25th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 11
December 9th – The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon – Chapter 12
December 23rd – The Invisible Weapon – Chapters 13, 14, 15

books we still hope to read (someday):

• Dalrymple, William – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
• Deudney, Daniel – Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity.
• Diogo, Maria Paula, and Dirk van Laak – Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging.
• Fickers, Andreas, and Pascal Griset – Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events.
• Högselius, Per, and Erik van der Vleuten – Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Making Europe
• Kaiser, Wolfram, and J. W. Schot – Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations.
• Knox, Hannah, and Penny Harvey – Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise.
• Long, Pamela O. – Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome.
• Swenson, Edward – Infrastructures of Religion and Power: Archaeologies of Landscape, Ritual, and Semiotics.
• Trischler, Helmuth, and Martin Kohlrausch – Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers.

previous books read in this reading group:

• The Smartness Mandate – Orit Halpern
• Technology of Empire – Daqing Yang
• News from Germany – Heidi J.S. Tworek
• balkan cyberia – viktor petrov
• how not to network a nation – benjamin peters
• technologies of speculation – sun-ha hong
• the closed world – paul edwards
• four internets – kieron o’hara & wendy hall
• what is wrong with rights – radha d’souza
• digital design and topological control – parisi
• golden age of analog – galloway
• countering the cloud – luke munn
• medium design – keller easterling
• reluctant power – rita zajác
• between truth and power – julie cohen
• the question concerning technology in china – yuk hui

/* We use CEST between the last Sunday of March until the last Sunday of October, then we switch back to CET