[root&router-readinggroup] Merging infrastructure & environment reading groups into: The Root & Router Society Reading Group.

[Niels ten Oever]

Dear friend, colleague, comrade, but above all: fellow reader,

We hope this message finds you all very well. In the process of merging 
our two reading groups we have added the memberships of both groups on 
this list. The merged reading group will start in 2026 and it will be 
called: The Root & Router Society Reading Group.

We have selected the following books for 2026:

– Extraction: The frontiers of green capitalism by Thea Riofrancos
– Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis by Nick 
Dyer-Witheford & Alessandra Mularoni
– The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the 
Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlöf
– The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by 
Deborah Cowen

The schedule can be found below:
January 6th – Extraction: Chapter 1 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Preface
January 20th – Extraction: Chapter 2 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Chapter 1
February 3rd – Extraction: Chapter 3 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Chapter 2
February 17th – Extraction: Chapter 4 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Chapter 3
March 3rd – Extraction: Chapter 5 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Chapter 4
March 17th – Extraction: Chapter 6 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: 
Chapter 5
March 31st – Extraction: Chapter 7 – Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Coda
April 14th – Extraction: Chapter 8 & 9
April 28th – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Introduction – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Introduction
May 12th – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Chapter 1 – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Chapter 1
May 26th – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Chapter 2 – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Chapter 2
June 9th – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Chapter 3 – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Chapter 3
June 23rd – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Chapter 4 – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Chapter 4
July 7th – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Chapter 5 – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Chapter 5
July 21st – Low-Carbon Contradiction: Conclusion – Deadly Life of 
Logistics: Conclusion

The latest version of the links and schedules can always be found here:
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2025/11/18/open-reading-group/

So make sure to order the books with your local book store, block the 
times in your calendar, and get excited. We are greatly looking forward 
to reading with you.

Best,

Niels, Fieke, and Maxigas

PS The current environment [0] and infrastructure [1] reading groups 
will continue until the end of the year, as listed here.

[0] https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2024/02/01/environment-reading-group/
[1] 
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2024/02/01/infrastructure-reading-group/

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-- 
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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