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

[Niels ten Oever]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions! Here are two more I received via Signal:

Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman 
Symbionts. University of Chicago Press.

Perez, C. (2002). Technological revolutions and financial capital: The 
dynamics of bubbles and golden ages. In Technological revolutions and 
financial capital. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best,

Niels


On 11/11/25 9:25 PM, Rodrigo wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <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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Amsterdam
Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of 
Amsterdam

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