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<p>Hi fellow readers,</p>
<p>Hope everyone had a great summer break and is ready to start
reading about environment and infrastructures again. In this email
you will find two important announcements. The readings for the
next months, time and place of the reading group, and that
starting 2026 we want to merge the critical infra reading groups!
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<p><b>Time and place</b>: Tuesdays from 16.00 CEST
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/5689070082">https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/5689070082</a><br>
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<p><b>Merging of the reading groups</b>: from 2026 we want to merge
the infra lab reading groups. In the last years we have been
reading in two direction: one more focused on environment and and
one on histories of and power in infrastructures. Both discussions
have been great and fruitful in developing our ideas on these
topics and now we feel it is time to merge them and learn and read
together. The idea is that we start reading more on the political
economy, from both perspectives, and have an even richer exchange
of ideas. If you have suggestions for books please let me know! </p>
<p><b>Upcoming readings: </b>Anne Mollen, Julia Velkova, Sigrid
Kannengießer, and I have edited a book 'AI Infrastructures and
Sustainability: Expanding Perspectives on Automation,
Communication and Media'. The book and its chapters show The book
shows that there is not one AI, and there is no such thing as
sustainable AI, but that through engaging with its materiality we
can start to account for the inequalities, economies and societal
conflicts that emerge within AI-saturated futures. It will be
published later this year. I have uploaded the first 4 chapters
on the <a
href="https://files.criticalinfralab.net/s/oDWscPoDZ8mXJK2">infra
lab cloud</a> (<b>PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE</b>) and suggest the
following reading schedule: <br>
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<ul>
<li>Sept 9: introduction and chapter 1 from Anna Valdivia<br>
</li>
<li>Sep 23: chapter 2 from Débora Leal, Max Krüger and Sigrid
Kannengießer and chapter 3 from Iago Bojczuk<br>
</li>
<li>Oct 7: chapter 4 from Julia Velkova and chapter 5 Patrick
Brodie <br>
</li>
<li>Oct 21: chapter 6 Hamsini Sridharan and chapter 7 Salla-Maaria
Laaksonen and Meri Frig<br>
</li>
<li>Nov 4: chapter 8 Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska and chapter 9
Olga Dovbysh<br>
</li>
<li>Nov 18: chapter 10 Anne Mollen and chapter 11 Gerwin van
Schie and Inte Gloerich </li>
<li>Dec 2: chapter 12 Jędrzej Nikla and chapter 13 Dan McQuillan <br>
</li>
<li>Dec 16: chapter 14 Fieke Jansen and chapter 15 Johanna Sefyrin
and Julia Velkova <br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Will update the website in the next couple of days</p>
<p>Best Fieke<br>
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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>
Jansen, F. (2024). The Practice of Predictive Identification: Optimising for Organisational Needs. Surveillance and Society Vol. 22 No. 3 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734">https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734</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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