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

[Rodrigo]

If we're including environment as a topic, Ways of Being by James Bridle
could be a good book. They go about dispelling the anthropocentrism
embedded in the production of technology, which they tie to the
extractivism underpinning modern-day AI and big data.

Looking forward to the January sessions!

Best,
Rodrigo

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 17:06, Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net>
wrote:

> 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,
> >
>
> --
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> Amsterdam
> Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of
> Amsterdam
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