open reading group infrastructure reading group November 2023
bi- weekly tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 cet (once every two weeks)
facilitated by niels@criticalinfralab.net
meet up here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/6365963924
november 2 how not to network a nation pp. ix – 56
november 14 how not to network a nation pp. 57 – 106
november 28 how not to network a nation pp. 107 – 158
december 12 how not to network a nation pp. 159 – 206
december 26 week off (because of holidays)
January 9 balkan cyberia pp. ix – 56
january 23 balkan cyberia pp. 57 – 106
February 6 balkan cyberia pp. 107 – 182
February 20 balkan cyberia pp. 183 – 226
March 5 balkan cyberia pp. 227 – 268
March 19 balkan cyberia pp. 269 – 321
April 2 author discussion with Peters, Petrov, and Sun-Ha Hong
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previous books read in this reading group:
- 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
open reading group environment reading group November 2023
bi- weekly tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 cet (once every two weeks)
facilitated by fieke@criticalinfralab.net
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november 21th: Against crisis epistemology Kyle Whyte
december 5th: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapters 1 and 2)
december 19th: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 3)
january 16th: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 4)
january 31st: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 5)
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reading collection. what we have read thusfar: pollution is colonialism, myth of green capitalism, from moore’s law to the carbon law, solarities; seeking energy justice, the value of a whale, after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration.