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<pre>Hi all,
Happy new year!! Hope everyone is doing well :)<br />
Are we still using our shared <a href="mailto:environment-readinggroup@criticalinfralab.net">Google doc</a> for collecting suggestions? The list on there is long, just looked through it again and here are my top picks:<br /><br />- [book] Thea Riofrancos, <a id="docs-internal-guid-457f564f-7fff-28d8-c1a9-d4e2162d17dc" style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/resource-radicals"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador</span></a><br />- [book] Red Nation: <a id="docs-internal-guid-21c873ec-7fff-b981-ea2e-ced262bfcda2" style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/the-red-deal-indigenous"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Red Deal: Indigenous Climate Action to Save Our Earth</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />- [paper] Pasek, Vaughn, Starosielski: <a id="docs-internal-guid-fca52a16-7fff-0d27-eed1-076a8de0391f" style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231158994"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s climate impacts</span></a><br /><br />I'd like to read Sebastián's paper (from Fieke's suggestions) as well. The book by Jonathan Crary looks interesting too, but maybe the review paper instead of the whole book?<br />The Mushroom book I've already read so I'd prefer something new.<br /><br />Also, I remember we had talked about possibly reading more short pieces and some of each other's work, if folks would like to share. I still like those ideas so maybe we could bring them back into the conversation.<br /><br />- Janna
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Janna Frenzel
jannafrenzel.com
On 16/01/2024 09:12 AM, maxigas@criticalinfralab.net wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16 2024, Fieke wrote:
>
>> We are almost at the end of our discard studies book and I have some
>> suggestions for the next reads.
>>
>> * Paper: An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty
>> frameworks and the decolonial option
>> <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778> by
>> Sebastián Lehuedé
>> * Book: The Solutions are Already Here; Strategies for Ecological
>> Revolution from Below
>> <https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/>
>> by Peter Gelderloos
>> * Book: Mushroom at the end of the world; On the Possibility of Life
>> <https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world>
>> in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (maybe people have
>> already read this one)
>>
>> Let me know if people have other suggestions. I'm also interested in
>> reading more about regenerative infrastructures or post silicon
>> computing, if people have ideas, please share!
>
> * Book: Truscello, Michael. 2020. *Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the
> Necropolitics of Infrastructure*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
> <https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10905.001.0001>.
>
> ^^^--- This book explores and promotes "internet abolitionism" and "brisantic
> politics" as an answer to the necropolitics of infrastructure that is basically
> what the author calls infrastructural brutalism. It also references this book
> from the author of "24/7: Sleep". ---vvvv
>
> * Book: Crary, Jonathan. 2022. *Scorched Earth: Beyond the digital age to a
> post-capitalist world". Verso, London.
>
> There is a review article of Crary by Truscello that I read and liked a lot:
>
> * Paper: Truscello, Michael. 2023. "The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary
> Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet." *The South
> Atlantic Quarterly* 122 (4): 811--26.
> <https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10747811>.
>
> Both authors discuss the ecological aspect and it is their motivation -- for
> Truscello it is the primary reason to abolish the Internet. I looked into the
> books and liked them, but Truscello has quite some "film critique" passages
> where it is about how ecological sabotage is depicted in movies, for instance.
> Crary is more philosophical and that's an artist. I am afraid they are both
> white males... :/
>
> About biological computing I only found now a book that is potentially
> interesting but I did not look into it at all:
>
> * Book: Griffin, James. 2023. The State of Cultural Biology: Regulating
> Biological Computing. Elgar, London.
> https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-state-of-cultural-biology-9781800376885.html
>
> I would go for the Truscello book as the next one! I read the Mushroom book,
> which is inspiring but quite abstract. The Solutions book looks a bit too
> concrete. But happy to read any of those.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> --
> Maxigas
> co-pi critical infrastructure lab
> https://criticalinfralab.net/
> Assistant Professor of Computational Methods
> Department of Media and Culture Studies
> University of Utrecht
>
> PAPER => Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G
> by Maxigas and Niels ten Oever
> Open access: doi.org/10.1177/20594364231193950
>
> BOOK ==> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
> by Johan Söderberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
> Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
>
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