Nicole Starosielki's *The Undersea Network - * https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Undersea-Network is good one for this topic. And the books in the MIT Infrastructure series: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff@gmail.com> wrote:

The paper below is published in the 2015 proceedings of the iscram conference and it is free on the web. it is the final part of a larger study that has been reviewed by FUTURES journal and the final version was just sent this month to the journal after the reviews. hopefully it will be out in a few months. ISCRAM Digital Library

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

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Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

Thanks!

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Susan Leigh Star's short methodological piece on "The Ethnography of Infrastructure" fits the canonical bill pretty solidly: http://abs.sagepub.com/content/43/3/377.abstract Xiaochang On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:35 AM, mariann unterluggauer <mariann@nomatic.org> wrote:

On 22 Aug 2016, at 22:20, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

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Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

i am not sure what you are exactly looking for. so i just can recommend some "canonical" search options:

the terena papers are helpful, imho. https://www.terena.org/publications/ (i am thankful that they didn't erase the url when uniting with géant)

- oecd reports are another good source & as well as digging: bookshop.europe.eu

all the best, mariann

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Thanks!

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Hey folks, I usually think of these pieces (and Leigh Starr's) as pretty canonical: Brian Larkin - Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure <http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522> Paul Edwards - Infrastructure and Modernity <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/infrastructure.pdf> I also second the Parks and Starosielski "Signal Traffic" collection. Hope this helps, Jeff On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Hintz, Eric <HintzE@si.edu> wrote:

Dag and SIGCIS-

I suggest SHOT’s 2015 Edelstein prize-winner (best scholarly book): Christopher F. Jones, *Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard, 2014) <https://www.amazon.com/Routes-Power-Energy-Modern-America/dp/0674728890>*. Chris describes how infrastructure--in the form of canals, pipelines, and electrical power lines--transformed the East Coast of the U.S., turning it into a fossil-fuel intensive economy, with accompanying social-economic-environmental impacts. He certainly cites all the canonical literature on path dependency, infrastructure traps, etc.

Chris also blogs at http://www.christopherfjones.com/.

Best-

Eric Hintz

Smithsonian Institution

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Susan Leigh Star's short methodological piece on "The Ethnography of Infrastructure" fits the canonical bill pretty solidly: http://abs.sagepub.com/content/43/3/377.abstract

Xiaochang

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:35 AM, mariann unterluggauer < mariann@nomatic.org> wrote:

On 22 Aug 2016, at 22:20, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

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Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

i am not sure what you are exactly looking for. so i just can recommend some "canonical" search options:

the terena papers are helpful, imho. https://www.terena.org/publications/ (i am thankful that they didn't erase the url when uniting with géant)

- oecd reports are another good source & as well as digging: bookshop.europe.eu

all the best, mariann

...

Thanks!

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take a look at Van der Vleuten and Kaijser, Networking Europe; and other work of these authors. dick ________________________________________ From: Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of mariann unterluggauer [mariann@nomatic.org] Sent: 23 August 2016 12:35 To: members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas! On 22 Aug 2016, at 22:20, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

i am not sure what you are exactly looking for. so i just can recommend some "canonical" search options: the terena papers are helpful, imho. https://www.terena.org/publications/ (i am thankful that they didn't erase the url when uniting with géant) - oecd reports are another good source & as well as digging: bookshop.europe.eu all the best, mariann

Thanks!

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I don’t think critical adds a whole lot to “infrastructure studies.” It has some usefulness in formulations like “critical management studies” (a thing in Northern Europe but no so much in the US) as management scholarship is usually uncritical in every sense of the word. So “critical” demarcates a scholarly community deliberately taking a unorthodox approaches to challenge the assumptions of the field. http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/about-cms But science studies, STS, media studies, etc. manage to embrace a variety of socially and culturally informed perspectives without their practitioners needing to add the “critical” in front of them. Adding “critical” might be seen as a challenge to those currently embracing “infrastructure studies” as a scholarly identity. There’s also the question of whether “critical” means critical as in “critical thinking” or as in “critical theory,” and while critical theory certainly has a place among other approaches in the study of infrastructure not everyone would feel comfortable with the suggestion that it should be elevated over approaches grounded in STS, history, sociology, anthropology, etc. Best wishes, Tom From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Lori Emerson Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:39 PM To: Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> Cc: Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org>; members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas! Dear all, I just wanted to thank you for sending in these great resources for infrastructure studies - I came across the term "critical infrastructure studies" a couple months ago and got quite excited about how it seemed more expansive and more useful for describing my projects on labs and the pre-history of the internet than either "media archaeology" or just "media studies." But now I wonder what the extra "critical" denotes since there's a somewhat well established field already of I.S.? Any thoughts? yours, Lori On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu <mailto:pne@umich.edu> > wrote: Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add. Bowker & Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences Simon & Marvin, Splintering Urbanism — kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ui.pdf> (NSF report with some lit review) Starosielski, The Undersea Network Check the books in my <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures> Infrastructures book series, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, Standards: Recipes for Reality Also this very recent paper <https://www.academia.edu/27555302/Infrastructure_studies_meet_platform_studies_in_the_age_of_Google_and_Facebook> on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”! Best, Paul On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org <mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org> > wrote: Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies? Thanks! Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 <tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201035> Fax: +1 650 810 1055 <tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201055> _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org <http://sigcis.org> , the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ————————————————— Paul N. 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Eh, but Tom, aren't getting off on a tangent here? I agree with Brian that "critical" in this context is an adjective to infrastructures, not to the study of it -even if we do not have to exclude to possibility of a critical theory of infrastructures. Infrastructures were deemed critical by those who observed that the breakdown of such infrastructures would bring the whole of society to a standstill. I would think, the high voltage power networks were the key example. Whether the expression "critical infrastructure" was brought into the debate by military strategists, political scientists, anthropologists or by those building the networks, I do not know. Interesting historical question. Of equal interest is when and by whom IT-infrastructures were considered so crucially important, that they were called "critical". Gerard ________________________________ Van: Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] namens Thomas Haigh [thomas.haigh@gmail.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 23 augustus 2016 23:42 Aan: 'Lori Emerson' CC: members@lists.sigcis.org Onderwerp: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas! I don’t think critical adds a whole lot to “infrastructure studies.” It has some usefulness in formulations like “critical management studies” (a thing in Northern Europe but no so much in the US) as management scholarship is usually uncritical in every sense of the word. So “critical” demarcates a scholarly community deliberately taking a unorthodox approaches to challenge the assumptions of the field. http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/about-cms But science studies, STS, media studies, etc. manage to embrace a variety of socially and culturally informed perspectives without their practitioners needing to add the “critical” in front of them. Adding “critical” might be seen as a challenge to those currently embracing “infrastructure studies” as a scholarly identity. There’s also the question of whether “critical” means critical as in “critical thinking” or as in “critical theory,” and while critical theory certainly has a place among other approaches in the study of infrastructure not everyone would feel comfortable with the suggestion that it should be elevated over approaches grounded in STS, history, sociology, anthropology, etc. Best wishes, Tom From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Lori Emerson Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:39 PM To: Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> Cc: Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org>; members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas! Dear all, I just wanted to thank you for sending in these great resources for infrastructure studies - I came across the term "critical infrastructure studies" a couple months ago and got quite excited about how it seemed more expansive and more useful for describing my projects on labs and the pre-history of the internet than either "media archaeology" or just "media studies." But now I wonder what the extra "critical" denotes since there's a somewhat well established field already of I.S.? Any thoughts? yours, Lori On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu<mailto:pne@umich.edu>> wrote: Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add. Bowker & Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences Simon & Marvin, Splintering Urbanism — kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ui.pdf> (NSF report with some lit review) Starosielski, The Undersea Network Check the books in my Infrastructures book series<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures>, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, Standards: Recipes for Reality Also this very recent paper<https://www.academia.edu/27555302/Infrastructure_studies_meet_platform_studies_in_the_age_of_Google_and_Facebook> on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”! Best, Paul On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org<mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org>> wrote: Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies? Thanks! Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035<tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201035> Fax: +1 650 810 1055<tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201055> _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ————————————————— Paul N. 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So there are two variants of “critical infrastructure studies” now — “[critical infrastructure] studies” and “critical [infrastructure studies]”. I think Lori’s usage (the second one) is new, and still rare or even idiosyncratic. It also may not be possible to distinguish STS-y versions of “infrastructure studies” from “critical infrastructure studies” (Lori’s sense). To my knowledge, the first use of the phrase “critical infrastructure” was around 1997-98, by the Clinton-era President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP). Perhaps there were earlier uses of the phrase that I don’t know about. The PCCIP focused in part on vulnerabilities created by connections across infrastructures - cyber with electric and phone, for example. People working in one, e.g. cyber, tended to ignore vulnerabilities due to their interaction, e.g. cutting major undersea cables (physical attack, not cyber) would also take out chunks of the Internet. The PCCIP work became input to the new Dept of Homeland Security after 9/11/2001. There’s a 100-plus page report, issued around 1999. If it’s too hard to find email me and I will send you a copy. Best, Paul

On Aug 23, 2016, at 22:06 , Lori Emerson <lori.emerson@gmail.com <mailto:lori.emerson@gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks all for the responses.

I just remembered that I came across "critical infrastructure studies" in this excerpt from Alan Liu's book-in-progress tentatively titled "Against the Cultural Singularity: Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies." http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/drafts-for-against-the-cultural-singularity/ <http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/drafts-for-against-the-cultural-singularity/>

He writes something to the effect that he's borrowing a "lightly anti-foundationalism" from critical infrastructure studies but I'm not sure yet who he's engaging with in terms of the latter and was curious about whether critical infrastructure studies had become an established branch from the main field or whether it's not well known or considered idiosyncratic.

In terms of "critical," Liu quotes from Michael Agre's writings on artificial intelligence research: “The word ‘critical’ here does not call for pessimism and destruction but rather for an expanded understanding of the conditions and goals of technical work. . . . Instead of seeking foundations it would embrace the impossibility of foundations, guiding itself by a continually unfolding awareness of its own workings as a historically specific practice.”

yours, Lori

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Alberts, Gerard <G.Alberts@uva.nl <mailto:G.Alberts@uva.nl>> wrote: Eh, but Tom, aren't getting off on a tangent here? I agree with Brian that "critical" in this context is an adjective to infrastructures, not to the study of it -even if we do not have to exclude to possibility of a critical theory of infrastructures. Infrastructures were deemed critical by those who observed that the breakdown of such infrastructures would bring the whole of society to a standstill. I would think, the high voltage power networks were the key example. Whether the expression "critical infrastructure" was brought into the debate by military strategists, political scientists, anthropologists or by those building the networks, I do not know. Interesting historical question. Of equal interest is when and by whom IT-infrastructures were considered so crucially important, that they were called "critical". Gerard Van: Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>] namens Thomas Haigh [thomas.haigh@gmail.com <mailto:thomas.haigh@gmail.com>] Verzonden: dinsdag 23 augustus 2016 23:42 Aan: 'Lori Emerson' CC: members@lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> Onderwerp: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas!

I don’t think critical adds a whole lot to “infrastructure studies.” It has some usefulness in formulations like “critical management studies” (a thing in Northern Europe but no so much in the US) as management scholarship is usually uncritical in every sense of the word. So “critical” demarcates a scholarly community deliberately taking a unorthodox approaches to challenge the assumptions of the field. http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/about-cms <http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/about-cms>

But science studies, STS, media studies, etc. manage to embrace a variety of socially and culturally informed perspectives without their practitioners needing to add the “critical” in front of them. Adding “critical” might be seen as a challenge to those currently embracing “infrastructure studies” as a scholarly identity. There’s also the question of whether “critical” means critical as in “critical thinking” or as in “critical theory,” and while critical theory certainly has a place among other approaches in the study of infrastructure not everyone would feel comfortable with the suggestion that it should be elevated over approaches grounded in STS, history, sociology, anthropology, etc.

Best wishes,

Tom

From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>] On Behalf Of Lori Emerson Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:39 PM To: Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu <mailto:pne@umich.edu>> Cc: Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org <mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org>>; members@lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas!

Dear all, I just wanted to thank you for sending in these great resources for infrastructure studies - I came across the term "critical infrastructure studies" a couple months ago and got quite excited about how it seemed more expansive and more useful for describing my projects on labs and the pre-history of the internet than either "media archaeology" or just "media studies." But now I wonder what the extra "critical" denotes since there's a somewhat well established field already of I.S.? Any thoughts?

yours, Lori

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu <mailto:pne@umich.edu>> wrote:

Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add.

Bowker & Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Simon & Marvin, Splintering Urbanism — kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital

Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html>

Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ui.pdf> (NSF report with some lit review)

Starosielski, The Undersea Network

Check the books in my Infrastructures book series <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures>, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, Standards: Recipes for Reality

Also this very recent paper <https://www.academia.edu/27555302/Infrastructure_studies_meet_platform_studies_in_the_age_of_Google_and_Facebook> on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”!

Best,

Paul

On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org <mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org>> wrote:

Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

Thanks!

Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311

Tel: +1 650 810 1035 <tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201035> Fax: +1 650 810 1055 <tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201055>

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Paul in the area of disasters htere is a host of interactions of infrastructures. new zealand after every disaster requires an analysis of how the critical infrastructures behaved in how they interfered with one another. critical infrastructures includes things like modes of transportation and whether certain things that are needed can reach those that need it. in he paper i mentioned near the start the 16 major infrastructures could all possibly interact with one another and that is why we needed 20 or so experts to determine which ones did interact with what other ones, clearly some do not interact but it also depends on what country you are talking about since there are things like all hospitals in europe must have 8 days of drinking water stored. and also in most places in the u.s. if the electricity goes out than gas stations cannot pump gas so that leads to very significant interaction problems. the paper shows examples where the experts disagreed with one another and their arguments about disagreements was a 40 page document not published with the paper. the model we evolved focused on the u.s. because that is where the majority of the experts in the delphi were from. i showed the details of two disagreements in the published paper. by the way in NJ for example, the only gas stations required to have electronic generators to be able to pump gas are on the new jersey turnpike. most citizens have no idea of the complications between infrastructures. local governments dont make these things clear. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:

So there are two variants of “critical infrastructure studies” now — “[critical infrastructure] studies” and “critical [infrastructure studies]”. I think Lori’s usage (the second one) is new, and still rare. It also may not be possible to distinguish STS-y versions of “infrastructure studies” from “critical infrastructure studies” (Lori’s sense).

To my knowledge, the first use of the phrase “critical infrastructure” was around 1997-98, by the Clinton-era President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP). Perhaps there were earlier uses of the phrase that I don’t know about.

The PCCIP focused in part on vulnerabilities created by connections across infrastructures - cyber with electric and phone, for example. People working in one, e.g. cyber, tended to ignore vulnerabilities due to their interaction, e.g. cutting major undersea cables (physical attack, not cyber) would also take out chunks of the Internet.

The PCCIP work became input to the new Dept of Homeland Security after 9/11/2001.

There’s a 100-plus page report, issued around 1999. If it’s too hard to find email me and I will send you a copy.

Best,

Paul

On Aug 23, 2016, at 22:06 , Lori Emerson <lori.emerson@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks all for the responses.

I just remembered that I came across "critical infrastructure studies" in this excerpt from Alan Liu's book-in-progress tentatively titled "Against the Cultural Singularity: Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies." http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/drafts-for-against-the- cultural-singularity/

He writes something to the effect that he's borrowing a "lightly anti-foundationalism" from critical infrastructure studies but I'm not sure yet who he's engaging with in terms of the latter and was curious about whether critical infrastructure studies had become an established branch from the main field or whether it's not well known or considered idiosyncratic.

In terms of "critical," Liu quotes from Michael Agre's writings on artificial intelligence research: “The word ‘critical’ here does not call for pessimism and destruction but rather for an expanded understanding of the conditions and goals of technical work. . . . Instead of seeking foundations it would embrace the impossibility of foundations, guiding itself by a continually unfolding awareness of its own workings as a historically specific practice.”

yours, Lori

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Alberts, Gerard <G.Alberts@uva.nl> wrote:

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Eh, but Tom, aren't getting off on a tangent here? I agree with Brian that "critical" in this context is an adjective to infrastructures, not to the study of it -even if we do not have to exclude to possibility of a critical theory of infrastructures. Infrastructures were deemed critical by those who observed that the breakdown of such infrastructures would bring the whole of society to a standstill. I would think, the high voltage power networks were the key example. Whether the expression "critical infrastructure" was brought into the debate by military strategists, political scientists, anthropologists or by those building the networks, I do not know. Interesting historical question. Of equal interest is when and by whom IT-infrastructures were considered so crucially important, that they were called "critical". Gerard ------------------------------ *Van:* Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] namens Thomas Haigh [ thomas.haigh@gmail.com] *Verzonden:* dinsdag 23 augustus 2016 23:42 *Aan:* 'Lori Emerson' *CC:* members@lists.sigcis.org *Onderwerp:* Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call for Ideas!

I don’t think critical adds a whole lot to “infrastructure studies.” It has some usefulness in formulations like “critical management studies” (a thing in Northern Europe but no so much in the US) as management scholarship is usually uncritical in every sense of the word. So “critical” demarcates a scholarly community deliberately taking a unorthodox approaches to challenge the assumptions of the field. http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/about-cms

But science studies, STS, media studies, etc. manage to embrace a variety of socially and culturally informed perspectives without their practitioners needing to add the “critical” in front of them. Adding “critical” might be seen as a challenge to those currently embracing “infrastructure studies” as a scholarly identity. There’s also the question of whether “critical” means critical as in “critical thinking” or as in “critical theory,” and while critical theory certainly has a place among other approaches in the study of infrastructure not everyone would feel comfortable with the suggestion that it should be elevated over approaches grounded in STS, history, sociology, anthropology, etc.

Best wishes,

Tom

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Dear all, I just wanted to thank you for sending in these great resources for infrastructure studies - I came across the term "critical infrastructure studies" a couple months ago and got quite excited about how it seemed more expansive and more useful for describing my projects on labs and the pre-history of the internet than either "media archaeology" or just "media studies." But now I wonder what the extra "critical" denotes since there's a somewhat well established field already of I.S.? Any thoughts?

yours, Lori

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:

Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add.

Bowker & Star, *Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences*

Simon & Marvin, *Splintering Urbanism — *kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital

Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html>

Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ui.pdf> (NSF report with some lit review)

Starosielski, *The Undersea Network*

Check the books in my *Infrastructures* book series <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures>, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, *Standards: Recipes for Reality*

Also this very recent paper <https://www.academia.edu/27555302/Infrastructure_studies_meet_platform_studies_in_the_age_of_Google_and_Facebook> on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”!

Best,

Paul

On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

Thanks!

Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311

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