[Environment-readinggroup] Suggestions for the next reads

[Fieke]

Hi all

I have updated the page on the critical infra lab website and have 
cleaned the Google doc a bit.

Next time we are reading

  * discard studies. wasting, systems, and power (chapter 5)
  * an alternative planetary future? digital sovereignty frameworks and
    the decolonial option
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20539517231221778> by
    sebastián lehuedé

See you there! Even if you haven't read it join the discussion

Fieke


On 16-01-2024 15:50, Janna Frenzel wrote:
> Sorry, wrong link to Google doc. Here it is again
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_9jqN-xMXvFTleVXbWoib5D7HTSA1cHmBd0lIvG8NE/edit#heading=h.row59kb9mtuz
>
>
> On 16/01/2024 09:39 AM, Janna Frenzel wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > ---
> > 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/
> >>
> >> === I love long emails | https://email.is-not-s.ms/  ===
> >  
> > 
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [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
>
-- 
Fieke Jansen, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam
co-pi critical infrastructure lab
Member Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights coalition

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