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<p>Hi all</p>
<p>I have updated the page on the critical infra lab website and
have cleaned the Google doc a bit. <br>
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<p>Next time we are reading </p>
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<li>discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 5) </li>
<li><a
href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778">an
alternative planetary future? digital sovereignty frameworks
and the decolonial option</a> by sebastián lehuedé</li>
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<p>See you there! Even if you haven't read it join the discussion</p>
<p>Fieke<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16-01-2024 15:50, Janna Frenzel
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On 16/01/2024 09:39 AM, Janna Frenzel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Happy new year!! Hope everyone is doing well :)
>
> Are we still using our shared Google doc for collecting suggestions?
> The list on there is long, just looked through it again and here are
> my top picks:
>
> - [book] Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to
> Post-Extractivism in Ecuador [1]
> - [book] Red Nation: The Red Deal: Indigenous Climate Action to Save
> Our Earth [2]
> - [paper] Pasek, Vaughn, Starosielski: The world wide web of carbon:
> Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications
> technology's climate impacts [3]
>
> 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?
> The Mushroom book I've already read so I'd prefer something new.
>
> 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.
>
> - Janna
>
> ---
> Janna Frenzel
> jannafrenzel.com
>
> On 16/01/2024 09:12 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:maxigas@criticalinfralab.net">maxigas@criticalinfralab.net</a> 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
>>> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778"><https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778></a> by
>>> Sebastián Lehuedé
>>> * Book: The Solutions are Already Here; Strategies for Ecological
>>> Revolution from Below
>>>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/"><https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/></a>
>>> by Peter Gelderloos
>>> * Book: Mushroom at the end of the world; On the Possibility of
> Life
>>>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world"><https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world></a>
>>> 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.
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10905.001.0001"><https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10905.001.0001></a>.
>>
>> ^^^--- 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.
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10747811"><https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10747811></a>.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-state-of-cultural-biology-9781800376885.html">https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-state-of-cultural-biology-9781800376885.html</a>
>>
>> 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
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://criticalinfralab.net/">https://criticalinfralab.net/</a>
>> 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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/">https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/</a>
>>
>> === I love long emails | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://email.is-not-s.ms/">https://email.is-not-s.ms/</a> ===
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/resource-radicals">https://www.dukeupress.edu/resource-radicals</a>
> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/the-red-deal-indigenous">https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/the-red-deal-indigenous</a>
> [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231158994">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231158994</a></pre>
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Fieke Jansen, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam
co-pi critical infrastructure lab
Member Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights coalition
W: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.criticalinfralab.net/">https://www.criticalinfralab.net/</a>
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fieke@criticalinfralab.net">fieke@criticalinfralab.net</a>
Branch Magazine Special Issue 6: Green Screen Edition
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/">https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/</a></pre>
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