[Infrastructure-readinggroup] book selection time!

[Fieke Jansen]

Hi all,

I would be interested in reading about 1. technology and infrastructure 
policy. No preference of the order of the books. Maybe we can add a book 
/article on communication infrastructural as industrial policy. Which I 
feel ties all these books together. If people agree I can look around 
for a good reading about that.

Fieke

On 02/05/2023 10:11, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks so much for your active attendance in the meet-up with Prof. Dr. 
> DeSouza. I wanted to jumpstart the discussion on next readings. I have a 
> couple of directions I would be interested in:
> 
> 1. We're living in a time in which technology and infrastructure policy 
> is picking up a lot of steam, so perhaps we should read about how this 
> turned out in previous times and the interrelation with imperialism:
> 
> - The Closed World // Paul Edwards
> - Telegraphic Imperialism // Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury
> - China's Telecommunication Revolution // Eric Harwit
> - The Computerization of Society // Simon Nora and Alain Minc
> - Duress // Ann Laura Stoler
> 
> 2. Another option is digging deeper into human rights and how they 
> are(n't) useful for equitable infrastructure governance:
> 
> - Human Rights in an Unequal World // Samuel Moyn
> - The Morals of the Market // Jessica Whyte
> 
> 3. It seems the AI hype is not going away anytime soon (some are arguing 
> it is going to be an 'infrastructural technology', meaning it will be 
> integrating into everything) so perhaps we should dig in a bit?
> 
> - Resisting AI // Dan McQuillan
> - Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong
> 
> These are all books I already own (sorry, not sorry), so my bias should 
> be obvious. Feel free to fiercely argue for or against any of these 
> books, or add new books or categories.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Niels
> 
> 

-- 
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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