Environment Reading Group (facilitated by fieke@criticalinfralab.net)
Bi- weekly Tuesday session 16:00 – 17:00 CET (once every two weeks)
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May 9th: The value of a whale: chapter 6 and final chapter
May 23rd: Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
June 6th: Week off – RightsCon
June 20th: The computer chip industry has a dirty climate secret
Summer break
September 5th: After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Introduction
September 19th: After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Part I. Cultivation (chapter 1 – 3)
October 3rd: After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Part II. Burial (chapter 4 – 5)
October 17th: After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Part III. The After- Zero Society (chapter 6 – 8)
October 31st: After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Part IV. Buying Time (chapter 9 – 10)
November 14th: Discard Studies. Wasting, Systems, and Power (chapter 1 and 2)
November 28th: Discard Studies. Wasting, Systems, and Power (chapter 3 and 4)
December 12th: 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.
Infrastructure Reading Group (facilitated by niels@criticalinfralab.net)
Bi- weekly Thursday session 16:00 – 17:00 CET (once every two weeks)
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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