From mail at nielstenoever.net  Tue Jun 23 10:12:17 2026
From: mail at nielstenoever.net (Niels ten Oever)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:12:17 +0200
Subject: [root&router-readinggroup] New Books Starting on August 4th
Message-ID: <8e66798d-eadd-48fe-b382-3abefb625f41@nielstenoever.net>

Hi all,

The choice has been made! From 4 August onward we will be reading:

- Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser
- Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking by Yuk Hui

Now is a good time to (re-)join, and to download or buy your summer reading.

All details on joining can be found here:
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2025/11/open-reading-group/

We're also happily accepting suggestions for what to read after these 
two, roughly from December onward. Feel free to share ideas over this 
list or with me individually.

Looking forward to seeing many of you this afternoon, while we continue 
with:

- The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the 
Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederl?f
- The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by 
Deborah Cowen

Best,
Niels

-- 
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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