<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to share a hybrid seminar next monday. It will be on the topic of the politics and ethics of doing research in heavily polluted places, a nice follow up on the papers we read last week. See details in the pdf attached.</div><div><br></div><div>Vital Elements Seminar Series with Mariana Rios Sandoval "Research in a toxic world" <br></div>Date: March 24, 2025<br>Location: UvA REC, Anthropology Common Room (B5.12)<br>Time: 15.00-17.00<br>Zoom link: <a href="https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83333263586">https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83333263586</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Yan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM Fieke <<a href="mailto:fieke@criticalinfralab.net">fieke@criticalinfralab.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Hi fellow readers,</p>
<p>After a long winter break we want to start reading again. <br>
</p>
<p><b>New time and date:</b> the reading group collides with Janna
and mine teaching schedule, so untill the summer we want to move
the reading group to <b>Wednesday at 16.00 CET</b></p>
<p><b>Next readings:</b> we decided to try and read each others work
this year, so let me know if you are working on a draft
paper/chapter/essay that you would like to share and discuss with
the group. I have put some place holders in the schedule that we
can fill with your writings! </p>
<p>For next session de Waag volunteered their position paper
(attached in this email), please do not circulate as it is a
draft.<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>February 26: There are two readings. The draft position paper
of the Waag on regenerative infrastructures (see attached) and
‘<a href="https://codingrights.org/docs/compost_engineers.pdf" target="_blank">The
compost engineers and sus saberes lentos: a manifest for
regenerative technologies</a>‘ by Joana Varon and Lucía Egana</li>
<li>March 12: Michelle Murphy 'Afterlife and decolonial relations'
and 'Chemical Regimes of Living' (find both reading attached) <br>
</li>
<li>March 26: [a suggested writing] or book chapter Jansen. F and
ten Oever N. ' More compute for a burning planet? A scarcity
approach to AI infrastructures'
</li>
<li>April 9: Anne Tsing 'On Nonscalability: The Living World Is
Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales'<br>
</li>
<li>April 23: [place holder for writing from the group]<br>
</li>
<li>May 7: Max Liboiron, Manuel Tironi, and Nerea Calvillo 'Toxic
politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world'<br>
</li>
<li>May 21: [place holder for writing from the group]</li>
</ul>
<p>Reach out to me for questions, reading suggestions, comments etc.
and look forward to seeing you all again next week! <br>
</p>
<p>Best Fieke<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div>On 27-01-2025 16:31, Raymundo Vásquez
Ruiz wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear
all,</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I
hope you're doing well and happy new year :)<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Unfortunately,
due to external factors I missed the last editions and I'm now
wondering when are the meetings restarting.</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Did
you mention any dates before the break?</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Thank
you in advance.<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Kind
regards,<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<div>
<div>Raymundo</div>
</div>
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<div> El domingo, 8 de diciembre de 2024
a las 2:11 PM, Fieke <a href="mailto:fieke@criticalinfralab.net" target="_blank"><fieke@criticalinfralab.net></a>
escribió:<br>
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<p>Hi fellow readers,</p>
<p>In the last session we decided to break for the holiday
season. Since the summer we have been experimenting with
reading each others work and providing feedback on it. This
has been great and super helpful and we want to continue
doing this. </p>
<p><b>Call out to all of you writers:</b> do you have a draft
of finished op-ed, chapter, or article that you want to
discuss in the environment and tech reading group GREAT!
Please reach out to me with the topic and timing when you
would like to discuss it. <br>
</p>
<p><b>Call out for reading suggestions: </b>if you have
articles we should read, let me know!<br>
</p>
<p>Other suggested readings for after the break: </p>
<ul>
<li>‘<a href="https://codingrights.org/docs/compost_engineers.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The compost engineers and sus
saberes lentos: a manifest for regenerative technologies</a>‘
by Joana Varon and Lucía Egana </li>
<li><a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32651/w32651.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Industrial Policy in the Global
Semiconductor Sector</a> by Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Réka
Juhász, Nathan J. Lane, Giulia Lo Forte & Jeff Thurk <br>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38749791" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Toxic politics: Acting in a
permanently polluted world </a>by Nerea Calvillo and
Manuel Tironi</li>
<li><a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/84991" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Point of View: Rethinking
academia in a time of climate crisis</a> by Anne E Urai
and Clare Kelly<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For now, happy winter/summer break to everyone. <br>
</p>
<p>Best Fieke<br>
</p>
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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
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E: <a href="mailto:fieke@criticalinfralab.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">fieke@criticalinfralab.net</a>
Jansen, F. (2024). The Practice of Predictive Identification: Optimising for Organisational Needs. Surveillance and Society Vol. 22 No. 3 <a href="https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734</a>
Branch Magazine Special Issue 6: Green Screen Edition
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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 href="https://www.criticalinfralab.net/" target="_blank">https://www.criticalinfralab.net/</a>
E: <a href="mailto:fieke@criticalinfralab.net" target="_blank">fieke@criticalinfralab.net</a>
Jansen, F. (2024). The Practice of Predictive Identification: Optimising for Organisational Needs. Surveillance and Society Vol. 22 No. 3 <a href="https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734" target="_blank">https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734</a>
Branch Magazine Special Issue 6: Green Screen Edition
<a href="https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/" target="_blank">https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/</a></pre>
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