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
may 7 The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts
may 21 Shifting from ‘sustainability’ to regeneration by Bill Reed
june 4 A Digital Tech Deal: Digital Socialism, Decolonization, and Reparations for a Sustainable Global Economy by Michael Kwet and We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon
june 18 Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure by Winona LaDuke and Deborah Cowen
Juli & Aug *** Summer break ***
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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
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
