activities
←open reading group infrastructure reading group
bi- weekly tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 cest/cet* (once every two weeks)
facilitated by niels@criticalinfralab.net
meet up here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/6365963924
take notes here: https://pad.criticalinfralab.net/unz6CPM9SpieqIlkXf-Oqg
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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 – Chapter 1 and 2
April 1st – European Objects – Chapter 3 and 4
April 15th – European Objects – Chapter 5 and 6
April 29th – European Objects – Chapter 7 and 8
May 6th – European Objects – Conclusion
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
open reading group environment reading group
bi- weekly tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 cet (once every two weeks)
facilitated by fieke@criticalinfralab.net
meet up here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/5689070082 | sign up for the mailinglist here and add you reading suggestions here.
Upcoming readings:
September 10: Janna Frenzel – ‘How ‘Green’ Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway’ (email fieke for a copy)
September 24: A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources
October 8: What might degrowth computing look like? + Strategies for Degrowth Computing
October 22: Water justice and technology. The Covid-19 crisis, computational resource control, and water relief policy
November 5: cancelled and replaced by Sustainable and Equitable Internet Infrastructure panels 5-7 Nov
November 19: Fieke Jansen – paper on IETF; framing environmental concerns and sustainability solutions (email fieke for a copy) + Solar Protocol: Exploring Energy-Centered Design
December 3: Kimberly Anastacio – Dissertation chapter about the ITU and IETF work on environment-related standards (email fieke for a copy)
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January: [manifesto!] ‘The compost engineers and sus saberes lentos: a manifest for regenerative technologies‘ by Joana Varon and Lucía Egana
previous books and articles read in this reading group:
– pollution is colonialism by Max Liboiron
– myth of green capitalism by Katharina Pistor
– from moore’s law to the carbon law by Daniel Pargman, Aksel Biørn-Hansen, Elina Eriksson, Jarmo Laaksolaht, Markus Robèrt
– solarities; seeking energy justice by After Oil Collective
– the value of a whale by Adrienne Buller
– after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration by Holly Jean Buck
– against crisis epistemology by kyle whyte
– discard studies: wasting, systems, and power by Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky
– An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option by Sebastián Lehuedé
– ‘Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years’: Renewable Energy and Planetary Thought in the Early Soviet Union (1917–1945) by Daniela Russ
– Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador by Thea Riofrancos
– The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North by Thea Riofrancos
– The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet by Michael Truscello
– The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts by Anne Pasek, Hunter Vaughan, and Nicole Starosielski.
– Shifting from ‘sustainability’ to regeneration by Bill Reed
– A Digital Tech Deal: Digital Socialism, Decolonization, and Reparations for a Sustainable Global Economy by Michael Kwet
– We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon
– Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure by Winona LaDuke and Deborah Cowen
