activities

open reading group infrastructure reading group February 2024

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
December 24th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 5 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 4
January 7th, 2025- Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 6 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 5
January 21st – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 7 // The Apple II Age – Chapter 6
February 4th – Telegraphic Imperialism – Chapter 8 + Conclusion // The Apple II Age – Chapter 7
February 18th – The Apple II Age – Inconclusions + Epilogue
March 4th – European Objects – Chapter 1 and 2
March 18th – European Objects – Chapter 3 and 4
April 1st – European Objects – Chapter 5 and 6
April 15th – European Objects – Chapter 7 and 8
April 29th – 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