<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>thank you, Niels,</div><div>I am intrigued by the Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong</div>but all other books on the list look good too.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>warmly,</div><div>Asia</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:29 AM Corinne Cath <<a href="mailto:corinnecath@gmail.com">corinnecath@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I would be interested in: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">- The Closed World // Paul Edwards</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">- Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>Is there a way we can do some type of survey / poll on what people are working on, which big questions they are asking of infrastructure and politics, and what that means for what readings would be most productive to the group as a whole? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I feel doing that would allow us to set up more of a shared curriculum and direction to what we read and how we read it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Just my two cents, corinne </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 10:15 AM Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:mail@nielstenoever.net" target="_blank">mail@nielstenoever.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">Hi all,<br>
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Thanks so much for your active attendance in the meet-up with Prof. Dr. DeSouza. I wanted to jumpstart the discussion on next readings. I have a couple of directions I would be interested in:<br>
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1. We're living in a time in which technology and infrastructure policy is picking up a lot of steam, so perhaps we should read about how this turned out in previous times and the interrelation with imperialism:<br>
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- The Closed World // Paul Edwards<br>
- Telegraphic Imperialism // Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury<br>
- China's Telecommunication Revolution // Eric Harwit<br>
- The Computerization of Society // Simon Nora and Alain Minc<br>
- Duress // Ann Laura Stoler<br>
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2. Another option is digging deeper into human rights and how they are(n't) useful for equitable infrastructure governance:<br>
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- Human Rights in an Unequal World // Samuel Moyn<br>
- The Morals of the Market // Jessica Whyte<br>
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3. It seems the AI hype is not going away anytime soon (some are arguing it is going to be an 'infrastructural technology', meaning it will be integrating into everything) so perhaps we should dig in a bit?<br>
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- Resisting AI // Dan McQuillan<br>
- Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong<br>
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These are all books I already own (sorry, not sorry), so my bias should be obvious. Feel free to fiercely argue for or against any of these books, or add new books or categories.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Niels<br>
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