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  1. 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

    dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects

  2. 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

    dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects

  3. "..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:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

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

  4. "..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:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

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

  5. "..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:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

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

  6. "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."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

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

  7. "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."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

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

  8. 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. manifest.supplystudies.com/ #criticallogistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #logistics #scm

  9. 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. manifest.supplystudies.com/ #criticallogistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #logistics #scm

  10. Colonial Infrastructures
    Worksession with Arthur Asseraf and Miriyam Aouragh
    2 + 3 December
    varia.zone/colonial-infrastruc

    "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