[Environment-readinggroup] Starting up again and new readings

[Fieke]

Hi fellow readers,

Hope everyone had a great summer break and is ready to start reading 
about environment and infrastructures again. In this email you will find 
two important announcements. The readings for the next months, time and 
place of the reading group, and that starting 2026 we want to merge the 
critical infra reading groups!

*Time and place*: Tuesdays from 16.00 CEST 
https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/5689070082

*Merging of the reading groups*: from 2026 we want to merge the infra 
lab reading groups. In the last years we have been reading in two 
direction: one more focused on environment and and one on histories of 
and power in infrastructures. Both discussions have been great and 
fruitful in developing our ideas on these topics and now we feel it is 
time to merge them and learn and read together. The idea is that we 
start reading more on the political economy, from both perspectives, and 
have an even richer exchange of ideas. If you have suggestions for books 
please let me know!

*Upcoming readings: *Anne Mollen, Julia Velkova, Sigrid Kannengießer, 
and I have edited a book 'AI Infrastructures and Sustainability: 
Expanding Perspectives on Automation, Communication and Media'. The book 
and its chapters show The book shows that there is not one AI, and there 
is no such thing as sustainable AI, but that through engaging with its 
materiality we can start to account for the inequalities, economies and 
societal conflicts that emerge within AI-saturated futures. It will be 
published later this year.  I have uploaded the first 4 chapters on the 
infra lab cloud <https://files.criticalinfralab.net/s/oDWscPoDZ8mXJK2> 
(*PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE*) and suggest the following reading schedule:

  * Sept 9: introduction and chapter 1 from Anna Valdivia
  * Sep 23: chapter 2 from Débora Leal, Max Krüger and Sigrid
    Kannengießer and chapter 3 from Iago Bojczuk
  * Oct 7: chapter 4 from Julia Velkova and chapter 5 Patrick Brodie
  * Oct 21: chapter 6 Hamsini Sridharan and chapter 7 Salla-Maaria
    Laaksonen and Meri Frig
  * Nov 4: chapter 8 Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska and chapter 9 Olga
    Dovbysh
  * Nov 18: chapter 10 Anne Mollen and chapter 11  Gerwin van Schie and
    Inte Gloerich
  * Dec 2: chapter 12 Jędrzej Nikla and chapter 13 Dan McQuillan
  * Dec 16: chapter 14 Fieke Jansen and chapter 15 Johanna Sefyrin and
    Julia Velkova

Will update the website in the next couple of days

Best Fieke

-- 
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

W:https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
E:fieke at criticalinfralab.net

Jansen, F.  (2024). The Practice of Predictive Identification: Optimising for Organisational Needs. Surveillance and Society Vol. 22 No. 3https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15788/11734

Branch Magazine Special Issue 6: Green Screen Edition
https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/
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