<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <br><div><br></div><div>I'm a new joiner to the reading group, but sending in a book for consideration this year -- Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/30-extrastatecraft?srsltid=AfmBOoomnC6Y703JzYnQsaaTUQuqnIs4LOruiZk6Knscm5qM8zDg5B0t">https://www.versobooks.com/products/30-extrastatecraft?srsltid=AfmBOoomnC6Y703JzYnQsaaTUQuqnIs4LOruiZk6Knscm5qM8zDg5B0t</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to participating! </div><div><br></div><div>All best,</div><div>Amanda</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM 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">Thanks a lot for the suggestions! Here are two more I received via Signal:<br>
<br>
Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman <br>
Symbionts. University of Chicago Press.<br>
<br>
Perez, C. (2002). Technological revolutions and financial capital: The <br>
dynamics of bubbles and golden ages. In Technological revolutions and <br>
financial capital. Edward Elgar Publishing.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Niels<br>
<br>
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On 11/11/25 9:25 PM, Rodrigo wrote:<br>
> If we're including environment as a topic, Ways of Being by James Bridle <br>
> could be a good book. They go about dispelling the anthropocentrism <br>
> embedded in the production of technology, which they tie to the <br>
> extractivism underpinning modern-day AI and big data.<br>
> <br>
> Looking forward to the January sessions!<br>
> <br>
> Best,<br>
> Rodrigo<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 17:06, Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:mail@nielstenoever.net" target="_blank">mail@nielstenoever.net</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mail@nielstenoever.net" target="_blank">mail@nielstenoever.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> 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<br>
> 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><br>
> <mailto:<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<br>
> version of the<br>
> > reading group, which will be merged with the other, environment-<br>
> focused,<br>
> > long-running reading group of the critical infrastructure lab. <br>
> For the new<br>
> > group we can branch out to ecology and possibly other areas, so<br>
> feel free<br>
> > to suggest anything that you deem helpful for understanding<br>
> 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) https://<br>
> <a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold</a> <<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dukeupress.edu/</a><br>
> media-hot-and-cold><br>
> ><br>
> > The new reading group will start in January and happen byweekly.<br>
> ><br>
> > In solidarity,<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
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