From fieke at criticalinfralab.net Thu Oct 23 11:34:13 2025 From: fieke at criticalinfralab.net (Fieke) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:34:13 +0200 Subject: [Environment-readinggroup] Starting up again and new readings In-Reply-To: <484e6eae-f43e-4fbe-845d-f64a2df59f00@criticalinfralab.net> References: <68db02bf-f21e-47b7-a7f1-65e45bd9300d@criticalinfralab.net> <484e6eae-f43e-4fbe-845d-f64a2df59f00@criticalinfralab.net> Message-ID: <4cf93ac4-30d2-4730-9fea-c143840682ec@criticalinfralab.net> Hi fellow environment readers! Just uploaded the next four chapters of the AI, Infrastructure, and Sustainability book for the next two reading groups. You can find them here ?(Please do not circulate), it will be available open access soon Best Fieke On 9/23/25 23:16, Fieke wrote: > > Hi fellow environment readers! > > Just uploaded the next four chapters of the AI, Infrastructure, and > Sustainability book for the next two reading groups. You can find them > here ?(Please do > not circulate), it will be available open access soon > > Best Fieke > > On 8/26/25 10:20, Fieke wrote: >> >> 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 Kannengie?er, >> 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 >> (*PLEASE DO >> NOT CIRCULATE*) and suggest the following reading schedule: >> >> * Sept 9: introduction and chapter 1 from Anna Valdivia >> * Sep 23: chapter 2 from D?bora Leal, Max Kr?ger and Sigrid >> Kannengie?er 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 J?drzej 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/ >> > -- > 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/ > -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: