[Environment-readinggroup] Suggestions for the next reads

[Janna Frenzel]

Hi all,

Happy new year!! Hope everyone is doing well :)

Are we still using our shared Google doc for collecting suggestions? The
list on there is long, just looked through it again and here are my top
picks:

- [book] Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to
Post-Extractivism in Ecuador [1]
- [book] Red Nation: The Red Deal: Indigenous Climate Action to Save Our
Earth [2] 
- [paper] Pasek, Vaughn, Starosielski: The world wide web of carbon:
Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications
technology's climate impacts [3]

I'd like to read Sebastián's paper (from Fieke's suggestions) as well.
The book by Jonathan Crary looks interesting too, but maybe the review
paper instead of the whole book?
The Mushroom book I've already read so I'd prefer something new.

Also, I remember we had talked about possibly reading more short pieces
and some of each other's work, if folks would like to share. I still
like those ideas so maybe we could bring them back into the
conversation.

- Janna

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Janna Frenzel
jannafrenzel.com

On 16/01/2024 09:12 AM, maxigas at criticalinfralab.net wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16 2024, Fieke wrote:
> 
>> We are almost at the end of our discard studies book and I have some
>> suggestions for the next reads.
>>
>> * Paper: An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty
>> frameworks and the decolonial option
>> <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778> by
>> Sebastián Lehuedé
>> * Book: The Solutions are Already Here; Strategies for Ecological
>> Revolution from Below
>> <https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/>
>> by Peter Gelderloos
>> * Book: Mushroom at the end of the world; On the Possibility of Life
>> <https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world>
>> in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (maybe people have
>> already read this one)
>>
>> Let me know if people have other suggestions. I'm also interested in
>> reading more about regenerative infrastructures or post silicon
>> computing, if people have ideas, please share!
> 
> * Book: Truscello, Michael. 2020. *Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the
> Necropolitics of Infrastructure*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
> <https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10905.001.0001>.
> 
> ^^^--- This book explores and promotes "internet abolitionism" and "brisantic
> politics" as an answer to the necropolitics of infrastructure that is basically
> what the author calls infrastructural brutalism. It also references this book
> from the author of "24/7: Sleep". ---vvvv
> 
> * Book: Crary, Jonathan. 2022. *Scorched Earth: Beyond the digital age to a
> post-capitalist world". Verso, London.
> 
> There is a review article of Crary by Truscello that I read and liked a lot:
> 
> * Paper: Truscello, Michael. 2023. "The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary
> Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet." *The South
> Atlantic Quarterly* 122 (4): 811--26.
> <https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10747811>.
> 
> Both authors discuss the ecological aspect and it is their motivation -- for
> Truscello it is the primary reason to abolish the Internet. I looked into the
> books and liked them, but Truscello has quite some "film critique" passages
> where it is about how ecological sabotage is depicted in movies, for instance.
> Crary is more philosophical and that's an artist. I am afraid they are both
> white males... :/
> 
> About biological computing I only found now a book that is potentially
> interesting but I did not look into it at all:
> 
> * Book: Griffin, James. 2023. The State of Cultural Biology: Regulating
> Biological Computing. Elgar, London.
> https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-state-of-cultural-biology-9781800376885.html
> 
> I would go for the Truscello book as the next one! I read the Mushroom book,
> which is inspiring but quite abstract. The Solutions book looks a bit too
> concrete. But happy to read any of those.
> 
> In solidarity,
> 
> -- 
> Maxigas
> co-pi critical infrastructure lab
> https://criticalinfralab.net/
> Assistant Professor of Computational Methods
> Department of Media and Culture Studies
> University of Utrecht
> 
> PAPER => Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G
> by Maxigas and Niels ten Oever
> Open access: doi.org/10.1177/20594364231193950
> 
> BOOK ==> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
> by Johan Söderberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
> Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
> 
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Links:
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[1] https://www.dukeupress.edu/resource-radicals
[2] https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/the-red-deal-indigenous
[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231158994
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