activities
←reading group infrastructure reading group
bi- weekly thursday 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
june 1 the closed world pp. ix – 74
june 15 the closed world pp.75 – 146
june 29 the closed world pp. 147 – 208
july 13 the closed world pp. 209 – 274
july 27 the closed world pp. 275 – 365
august 10 discuss the closed world with paul edwards
august 24 technologies of speculation pp. 1 – 52
september 7 technologies of speculation pp. 53 – 113
september 21 technologies of speculation pp. 114 – 155
october 5 technologies of speculation pp. 156 – 202
october 19 discuss technologies of speculation with sun-ha hong
november 2 how not to network a nation pp. ix – 56
november 16 how not to network a nation pp. 57 – 106
november 30 how not to network a nation pp. 107 – 158
december 7 how not to network a nation pp. 159 – 206
december 21 discuss how not to network a nation with benjamin peters
january 4 start reading balkan cyberia ?
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previous books read in this reading group:
- 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
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
september 5th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration introduction
september 12th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration part i. cultivation (chapter 1)
september 26th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration part i. cultivation (chapter 2 – 3)
october 10th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration part ii. burial (chapter 4 – 5)
october 24th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration part iii. the after- zero society (chapter 6 – 8)
november 7th: after geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration part iv. buying time (chapter 9 – 10)
november 21th: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 1 and 2)
december 5th: discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 3 and 4)
december 19th: 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, situating solarities, solar materialisms, and decolonial and feminist solarities, the value of a whale.
