open reading group environment reading group February 2024
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
january 30 discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 5) and An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option by Sebastián Lehuedé
february 13 ‘Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years’: Renewable Energy and Planetary Thought in the Early Soviet Union (1917–1945)
february 27 Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Intro) and The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North
march 12 Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (chapter 2 & 3)
march 26 Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (chapter 4 & 5)
april 9 Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (chapter 6)
april 23 The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet
may 7 The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts
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what we have read thusfar:
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
