open reading group infrastructure reading group
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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April 2 author discussion with Peters, Petrov, and Sun-Ha Hong
April 16 – May 14 break (suggestion: read The Smartness Mandate)
May 28 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Introduction + Chapter 1
June 11 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 2
June 25 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 3
July 9 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 4
July 23 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 5
August 6 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 6
August 20 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 7
September 3 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 8
September 17 – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 9
October 1st – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Chapter 10
October 15th – News from Germany & Technology of Empire // Conclusion
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:
- 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
open 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 | sign up for the mailinglist here and add you reading suggestions here.
Upcoming readings:
September 10: Janna Frenzel – ‘How ‘Green’ Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway’ (email fieke for a copy)
September 24: A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources
October 8: What might degrowth computing look like? + Strategies for Degrowth Computing
October 22: Fieke Jansen – paper on IETF; framing environmental concerns and sustainability solutions (email fieke for a copy) + Solar Protocol: Exploring Energy-Centered Design
November 5: Becky Kazansky – TBD (email fieke for a copy)
November 19: Water justice and technology. The Covid-19 crisis, computational resource control, and water relief policy
December 3: Kimberly Anastacio – Dissertation chapter about the ITU and IETF work on environment-related standards (email fieke for a copy)
December 17: [manifesto!] ‘The compost engineers and sus saberes lentos: a manifest for regenerative technologies‘ by Joana Varon and Lucía Egana
previous books and articles read in this reading group:
– 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
– The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts by Anne Pasek, Hunter Vaughan, and Nicole Starosielski.
– Shifting from ‘sustainability’ to regeneration by Bill Reed
– A Digital Tech Deal: Digital Socialism, Decolonization, and Reparations for a Sustainable Global Economy by Michael Kwet
– We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon
– Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure by Winona LaDuke and Deborah Cowen
event “Internet in Beeld: Verleden, Heden & Toekomst”, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam (in Dutch) October 2024
Corinne Cath en Fieke Jansen spreken in een breakout sessie bij Internet in Beeld: Verleden, Heden & Toekomst.
Op donderdag 10 oktober vindt het event ‘Internet in beeld: Verleden, Heden & Toekomst’ plaats bij Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Internet Society Nederland (ISOC NL), het Platform Internetstandaarden (Internet.nl), het Nederlands Internet Governance Forum (NL IGF), het ministerie van Economische Zaken, SIDN en ECP I Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving nodigen u hiervoor van harte uit. Er is deze dag een inspirerend programma voor u samengesteld met aansluitend een bruisende borrel ‘Bits, Bites & Bubbels’ ter ere van het 25-jarige bestaan van ISOC NL en de uitreiking van de Lifetime Achievement Awards!
Meer informatie en aanmelden vind je hier.
event “Empowering Sustainability, Transparency, and Regional Impact in the IT Cloud & Infrastructure Market”, Humanities Lab, University of Amsterdam October 2024
Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance recently conducted two surveys targeting both IT providers and IT purchasers to examine the current landscape and the role of sustainability and regionality in IT procurement decisions. The event aims to kick-start a broader conversation about the core values that should shape the IT cloud and infrastructure market towards greater sustainability. As global companies continue to dominate the market, it’s becoming increasingly difficult—yet more critical—to find ways to level the playing field. This event will focus on discussing the survey findings and exploring how we can shift the market towards enhanced sustainability and transparency.
Date: 15 October 17:00 – 20:00
Location: Humanities Lab, University of Amsterdam, Bushuis F0.01,
event “Global Digital Cultures Soirée: Shifting Infrastructure Power – Critical Approaches”, Brakke Grond Cafe, Amsterdam October 2024
Please RSVP here
We would like to cordially invite you to our Global Digital Cultures Soirée, which will take place on Wednesday, 16 October, 2024, between 18:00 and 22:00, the Brakke Grond Cafe.
The speakers this time are Fernanda R Rosa (Virginia Tech, USA) and Niels ten Oever (UvA) and Fieke Jansen (UvA) of the Critical Infrastructure Lab. Fernanda’s research, ‘Following code with code ethnography’, asks: is it possible to decolonize infrastructural interdependencies between the global North and the global South? Meanwhile, Niels and Fieke will present early findings from an experiment in co-developing alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
After brief presentations from these scholars, the floor will be open for questions and comments from participants.
As always, our soirées involve food and drinks; the evening will start with drinks, and dinner will be served around 20:00. Attendance is free of charge.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Date: 16 October, 18:00 – 22:00
Please RSVP here
Location: Brakke Grond Cafe
