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Reading Groups

Environment Reading Group (facilitated by fieke@criticalinfralab.net)

Start: mid January 2023

Bi- weekly Tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 CET (once every two weeks)

Reading: find our suggested reading here, our idea is to read from top to bottom   

First dates and readings

  • January 17th: Pollution is Colonialism: Introduction and chapter 1
  • January 31st: Pollution is Colonialism: chapter 2 and chapter 3
  • February 14th: Myth of green capitalism and From Moore’s Law to the Carbon Law 
  • February 28th: Solarities (Chapters: Situating Solarities, Solar Materialisms, and Decolonial and Feminist Solarities)
  • March 14th: The value of a whale introduction and chapter 1
  • March 28th: The value of a whale: chapter 2 and chapter 3
  • April 11th: The value of a whale: chapter 4 and chapter 5
  • April 25th: The value of a whale: chapter 6 and final chapter
  • May 9th:
  • May 23rd:

Meet up here:
https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/5689070082

Sign up for the mailinglist here:
https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/environment-readinggroup

Infrastructure Reading Group (facilitated by niels@criticalinfralab.net)

Start: January 2023

Bi- weekly Thursday session 16:00 – 17:00 CET (once every two weeks)

January 12 Countering the Cloud pp 1 – 56
January 26 Countering the Cloud pp 57 – 88
February 9 – Digital Design and Topological Control – Parisi
Golden Age of Analog – Galloway
February 23 What’s Wrong With Rights 1 – 74
March 9 What’s Wrong With Rights 75 – 184
March 23 Four Internets pp 1 – 70
April 6 Four Internets pp 71 – 124
April 20 What’s Wrong With Rights 185 – 212 and discuss with Radha D’Souza
May 4 Four Internets pp 125 – 182
May 18 Four Internets pp 183 – 246 
June 1 Invite Kieron O’Hara & Wendy Hall – discuss with them

Meet up here:
https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/6365963924

Sign up for the mailinglist here:
https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure-readinggroup