We’re looking forward to hosting Roel Roscam Abbing @rra (Malmö University) for a workshop on "Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond" on 6th April. Further details here: https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives/

#fediverse #mastodon #london #infrastructurestudies #infrastructuring #infrastructure #socialmedia #alternatives #criticalinfrastructurestudies

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

Logistics nerds *must* check out Manifest, Matthew Hockenberry and Colette Perold's platform for mapping and analyzing supply chains. It's amazing, and I especially love how it begins by mapping its *own* supply chain. https://manifest.supplystudies.com/ #criticallogistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #logistics #scm

Colonial Infrastructures
Worksession with Arthur Asseraf and Miriyam Aouragh
2 + 3 December
https://varia.zone/colonial-infrastructures.html

"This two-day worksession intends to be a moment of collective learning, to make tangible invisible colonial mechanisms of hierarchy and oppression that are prevalent in everyday communication technologies, yet often difficult to comprehend."

#varia #rotterdam #CriticalInfrastructureStudies

@benmschmidt @sramsay @jacobeisenstein @maria_antoniak @TedUnderwood @tisjune: #CriticalInfrastructureStudies, which I’ve been working on branding, is an interesting case because of the problem space opened up between humanistic “critique” and the area of research related to “mission critical” or other critical infrastructure.

#Introduction Luke Collison, studied #philosophy at #CRMEP Current teaching a little #PoliticalPhilosophy at University of Cologne. Research interests:
#ThePolitical in the post-#CarlSchmitt sense,
#PoliticalTheology
#Katechon
#GeorgesSorel
#MichelFoucault
#Infrastructure
#Counter-Infrastructure
#CriticalInfrastructureStudies
#EnergyHumanities
#InstitutionTheory
#JoachimRitter
#PhilosophicalAnthropology
#ErnstWolfgangBöckenförde

etc

Nice. Perfect occasion to re-post this excellent report drawn up by Agathe Balayn and Seda Gürses — for all of those in the business of Making AI Fair 😀

"Current AI policy-making in the EU underestimates the inequalities that may materialise with AI and the way its application reinforces computational infrastructures in the hands of Big Tech."

Beyond Debiasing Regulating AI and its inequalities
https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EDRi_Beyond-Debiasing-Report_Online.pdf

@Sedista #CriticalInfrastructureStudies #DeCloudify

Starting a hashtag: #CriticalInfrastructureStudies for works like:

* Pritchard, Helen V., & Femke Snelting. Infrastructural Interactions Workbook. Brussels: TITiPI, 2022. https://titipi.org/pub/Infrastructural_Interactions.pdf.

See also the https://cistudies.org/ initiative, where I've added the above to the bibliography. Also relevant is the #DebatesDH volume on "Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities," now in editing: https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-critical-infrastructure-studies-digital-humanities

@titipi @manetta @Sedista @Crittercompiler @ccl @openreflections

@jwyg: Excellent, Jonathan. Thanks for sending out your notes on the fediverse. Glad to see you here on Mastodon as another scholar/practioner interested in the #twittermigration from the perspective of #CriticalInfrastructureStudies