<div dir="ltr">Dear Niels!<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the reminder!</div><div>As per book suggestions - I love yours. Happy to read everything Yuk.</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings from Kyiv,</div><div><br></div><div>Warmly,</div><div>Asia</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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Just a quick reminder that we will start with two new books on April 28, namely:<br>
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– The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlöf<br>
– The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Deborah Cowen<br>
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This is a good time to start prepping for (re-)joining! All details on joining can be found here:<br>
<a href="https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2025/11/open-reading-group/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2025/11/open-reading-group/</a><br>
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Also: we're also happily accepting suggestions for books to read after these books, so that would roughly be for September. Feel free to share ideas over this list or to me individually.<br>
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I have been thinking about the following books:<br>
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- Hui, Yuk. 2024. Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking. U of Minnesota Press.<br>
- Quinn, Josephine. 2025. How the World Made the West. Bloomsbury Publishing.<br>
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All your suggestions are very welcomed!<br>
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Best,<br>
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Niels<br>
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