[Infrastructure-readinggroup] next readings, updates, calendar invites, and other administrivia '''⌐(ಠ۾ಠ)¬'''

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi all,

Thanks again for a great discussion yesterday in the session and on the list! From both discussions (and some 1:1 convos) I drew the following conclusions:

1. We will not have a summer break (or in the words of Thomas: "this reading group already feels like vacation")
2. I have invited Wendy Hall and Kieren O'Hara to come talk to us at June 1 (offered them June 15 as back up date), will let you know when I hear back
3. We decided as next books to read 'the Closed World' and 'Technologies of Speculation'
4. I really liked the idea of reading Balkan Cyberia, but I think we cannot do that without reading Benjamin Peters' 'How Not to Network a Nation', so I tentatively put that in our calendar as well. PDFs of the first three books are attached (also linked from the webpage [0]), Balkan Cyberia will only be published in June, but I ordered it already.
5. Here is a calendar invite, so you are always abreast of the reading group:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MXQxZDVpa211bTI2MnZhZG40bDAzbDR2ZWtfMjAyMzA1MDRUMTQwMDAwWiBuaWVsc3RvQG0&tmsrc=nielsto%40gmail.com&scp=ALL

June 15 the closed world pp. ix - 74
June 29 the closed world pp.75 - 146
July 13 the closed world pp. 147 - 208
July 27 the closed world pp. 209 - 274
August 10 the closed world pp. 275 - 365
August 24 discuss the closed world with Paul Edwards
September 7 technologies of speculation pp. 1 - 52
September 21 technologies of speculation pp. 53 - 113
October 5 technologies of speculation pp. 114 - 155
October 19 technologies of speculation pp. 156 - 202
November 2 discuss technologies of speculation with Sun-Ha Hong
November 16 how not to network a nation pp. ix - 56
November 30 how not to network a nation pp. 57 - 106
December 7 how not to network a nation pp. 107 - 158
December 21 how not to network a nation pp. 159 - 206
January 4 discuss how not to network a nation with Benjamin Peters
January 18 start reading Balkan Cyberia ?

Thanks for reading together and learning in the open!

Niels

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Niels ten Oever, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator - critical infrastructure lab - University of Amsterdam
Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of Amsterdam

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