Reading Groups – Critical Infrastructure Lab

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

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