[Environment-readinggroup] Starting up again and new readings

[Fieke]

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 <https://files.criticalinfralab.net/s/oDWscPoDZ8mXJK2> (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 <https://files.criticalinfralab.net/s/oDWscPoDZ8mXJK2> (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 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/
>>
> -- 
> 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/
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