Harald Klinke17h ago

Reading Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reinforced a simple insight: culture is never just about content. Archives, databases, platforms, standards, and AI systems shape what can be seen, studied, remembered, and forgotten.
#DigitalHumanities #CriticalInfrastructureStudies #VisualCulture #AI #CulturalAnalytics
Via @ULB_MS_FachInfo

https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-digital-humanities

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection.

Debates in the Digital Humanities
KCL Digital HumanitiesMar 14, 2023

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

Workshop: “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond”, 6th April 2023 – KCL Digital Humanities

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Feb 2, 2023

"..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

Amazon's Trickle-Down Monopoly

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers.

Data & Society
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Feb 2, 2023

"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

Miriam PosnerJan 10, 2023
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
Manifest: Supply Chain Platform

Manifest is an investigative toolkit intended for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade networks.

TITiPIDec 1, 2022

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

Colonial Infrastructures Worksession met Arthur Asseraf en Miriyam Aouragh

Deze tweedaagse werksessie is bedoeld als een moment van collectief leren om onzichtbare, koloniale mechanismen van hiërarchie en onderdrukking, die heersen in alledaagse communicatietechnologieën, maar vaak moeilijk te begrijpen zijn, tastbaar te maken.

Varia
Show threadAlan LiuNov 28, 2022
@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.
Luke CollisonNov 9, 2022

#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

Show threadAlan LiuNov 8, 2022

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