<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>If we're including environment as a topic, Ways of Being by James Bridle could be a good book. They go about dispelling the anthropocentrism embedded in the production of technology, which they tie to the extractivism underpinning modern-day AI and big data. <br><br></div>Looking forward to the January sessions!<br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Rodrigo</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 17:06, Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:mail@nielstenoever.net">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">Some other books people have suggested can be found below. If people <br>
have other ideas, references or preferences, please let them know so we <br>
can make a reading schedule for 2026 !<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Niels<br>
<br>
PS Small reminder that also if you have not read, you are very welcome <br>
to join the sessions. We just had a really great and generative <br>
conversation in the reading group exactly because people were freely <br>
discussing the ideas brought up in the texts.<br>
<br>
*Extraction: The frontiers of green capitalism* by Thea Riofrancos.<br>
<br>
*Planetary mine: Territories of extraction under late capitalism* by <br>
Martín Arboleda.<br>
<br>
*Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis* by Nick <br>
Dyer-Witheford & Alessandra Mularoni<br>
<br>
*From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland* by <br>
Patrick Bresnihan & Patrick Brodie<br>
<br>
*Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban <br>
Worlds* ed. Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, & Jen Nelles<br>
<br>
*Technical Territories: data, subjects, and spaces in Infrastructural Asia<br>
<br>
*The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade* by <br>
Deborah Cowen<br>
<br>
*The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the <br>
Infrastructural State in Cuba* by Gustav Cederlöf<br>
<br>
*The Obsolescence of the Human* by Günther Anders<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/11/25 4:51 PM, <a href="mailto:maxigas@criticalinfralab.net" target="_blank">maxigas@criticalinfralab.net</a> wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
> <br>
> This is the good time to suggest books to read for the 2026 version of the<br>
> reading group, which will be merged with the other, environment-focused,<br>
> long-running reading group of the critical infrastructure lab. For the new<br>
> group we can branch out to ecology and possibly other areas, so feel free<br>
> to suggest anything that you deem helpful for understanding various aspects<br>
> of infrastructures. Please send your suggestions here!<br>
> <br>
> Anne Kubo suggested this one during the session:<br>
> <br>
> Media Hot and Cold – Nicole Starosielski (2022) <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold</a><br>
> <br>
> The new reading group will start in January and happen byweekly.<br>
> <br>
> In solidarity,<br>
> <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Niels ten Oever, PhD<br>
Co-Principal Investigator - critical infrastructure lab - University of <br>
Amsterdam<br>
Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of <br>
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