[Infrastructure-readinggroup] NOW suggest books for the next edition of the merged reading group that starts in 2026

[Niels ten Oever]

Some other books people have suggested can be found below. If people 
have other ideas, references or preferences, please let them know so we 
can make a reading schedule for 2026 !

Best,

Niels

PS Small reminder that also if you have not read, you are very welcome 
to join the sessions. We just had a really great and generative 
conversation in the reading group exactly because people were freely 
discussing the ideas brought up in the texts.

*Extraction: The frontiers of green capitalism* by Thea Riofrancos.

*Planetary mine: Territories of extraction under late capitalism* by 
Martín Arboleda.

*Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis* by Nick 
Dyer-Witheford & Alessandra Mularoni

*From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland* by 
Patrick Bresnihan & Patrick Brodie

*Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban 
Worlds* ed. Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, & Jen Nelles

*Technical Territories: data, subjects, and spaces in Infrastructural Asia

*The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade* by 
Deborah Cowen

*The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the 
Infrastructural State in Cuba* by Gustav Cederlöf

*The Obsolescence of the Human* by Günther Anders



On 11/11/25 4:51 PM, maxigas at criticalinfralab.net wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This is the good time to suggest books to read for the 2026 version of the
> reading group, which will be merged with the other, environment-focused,
> long-running reading group of the critical infrastructure lab.  For the new
> group we can branch out to ecology and possibly other areas, so feel free
> to suggest anything that you deem helpful for understanding various aspects
> of infrastructures.  Please send your suggestions here!
> 
> Anne Kubo suggested this one during the session:
> 
> Media Hot and Cold – Nicole Starosielski (2022) https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold
> 
> The new reading group will start in January and happen byweekly.
> 
> In solidarity,
> 

-- 
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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