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

[Amanda Kraley]

Dear all,

I'm a new joiner to the reading group, but sending in a book for
consideration this year -- Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure
Space by Keller Easterling.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/30-extrastatecraft?srsltid=AfmBOoomnC6Y703JzYnQsaaTUQuqnIs4LOruiZk6Knscm5qM8zDg5B0t

Looking forward to participating!

All best,
Amanda

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net>
wrote:

> 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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