[Infrastructure-readinggroup] book selection time!

[Asia Bazdireva]

Hi everyone,

thank you, Niels,
I am intrigued by the Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong
but all other books on the list look good too.


warmly,
Asia

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:29 AM Corinne Cath <corinnecath at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would be interested in:
>
> - The Closed World // Paul Edwards
> - Technologies of Speculation // Sun-Ha Hong
>
> Is there a way we can do some type of survey / poll on what people are
> working on, which big questions they are asking of infrastructure and
> politics, and what that means for what readings would be most productive to
> the group as a whole?
>
> I feel doing that would allow us to set up more of a shared curriculum and
> direction to what we read and how we read it.
>
> Just my two cents, corinne
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 10:15 AM Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net>
> 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
>>
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>> Amsterdam
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