[Infrastructure-readinggroup] Planning for the remainder of the year

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi all,

I hope you are doing great - considering everything that is happening in the world. I like to plan when everything seems uncertain, so here we go. I picked some books that we will read until the end of the year. You can find the proposed schedule below and on the website.

I propose that we will read the current book until their endings, then we will read European Objects and Lifelines of our Society together, to go a bit back to the infrastructure and standards theme. Then we will continue with The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow and The Invisible Weapon by Headrick. I really wanted to read this Graeber book, but it is definitely too much to read by myself, and I think Headrick is one of the main scholars of telegraphy, so it might be nice to finish of our whole telegraph tour with him.

All suggest, comments, alterations very much welcome!

Cheers,

Niels

PS Most recent version is always here: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2024/02/01/infrastructure-reading-group/


February 4th - Telegraphic Imperialism - Chapter 7 // The Apple II Age - Chapter 6
February 18th - Telegraphic Imperialism - Chapter 8 + Conclusion // The Apple II Age - Chapter 7
March 4th - The Apple II Age - Inconclusions + Epilogue
March 18th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 1
April 1st - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 2
April 15th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 3
April 29th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 4
May 13th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 5
May 27th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 6
June 10th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 7
June 24th - European Objects and Lifelines of our Society - Chapter 8 and conclusion
July 8st - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 1
July 22nd - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 2
August 5th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 3
August 19th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 4
September 2nd - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 5
September 16th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 6
September 30th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 7
October 14th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 8
October 28th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 9
November 11th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 10
November 25th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 11
December 9th - The Dawn of Everything and The Invisible Weapon - Chapter 12
December 23rd - The Invisible Weapon - Chapters 13, 14, 15

-- 
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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