[-empyre-] Open Call: What's on your Bookshelf in 2021? - M Haughwout

[margaretha haughwout]

Hi Everyone,

Great to see everyone's lists.

Like many of you, I've really loved Escobar's recent book, *Designs for the
Pluriverse*. I finished it at the end of the year -- very nourishing and
very affirning. Over this winter I have been reading some science fiction,
going back to Kim Stanley Robinson's *Mars Trilogy*, and read Arkady
Martine's *A Memory Called Empire. *Also* Infinite Detail*. I have *Ministry
of the Future* by KSR,* Black Leopard Red Wolf* by Marlon James, and *The
Space Between Worlds* by Micaiah Johnson in the SF pile. SF is my way of
resting a dreaming after a bout of hard work. It is very snowy and quiet
here in Central NY, so a good dreamscape.

I'm also about to tackle *AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence* by Peter Dauvergne, and have *Fully Automated
Luxury Communism* by Aaron Bastani right beneath it. Have also been eyeing
the Reza Negarestani that I didn't get all the way through last summer, and
thinking about returning to it. I'm wondering if folks have any
recommendations for readings around AI and sustainability, AI and food
forestry -- especially as it pertains to value and/or crypto-colonialism...
I am always thinking about the commons and so Peter Linebaugh has been
hopping piles and making its way into quotes and citations of late. Another
pairing/ pile includes Nicole Starosielski's *The Undersea Network*,
and *Empire's
Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental
Railroad* by Manu Karuka.

Thanks Renate and Tim for spurring this exchange! And hope everyone is well
and safe as we come up on the end of our first year of the pandemic.

M

PS: a bio: *My creative work is a kind of multispecies worlding — a phrase
introduced by Donna Haraway, who understands it to be the “patterning of
possible worlds,” a co-becoming that occurs through entanglements with
other species. I collaborate with humans, and the more-than-human, across
technologies and ecologies, to enact possible worlds — worlds that generate
abundance, presence and relationship — and in doing so, antagonize
proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and capitalist forms of labor.
Speculative fabulation, intervention, participatory event, walking tour,
experimental pedagogy, installation, and biological processes articulate
stages of my worlding processes. My collaborations include the Coven
Intelligence Program, with efrén cruz cortés and Suzanne Husky, a coven
that uncovers revolutionary ecologies between plants and machines; the
Guerrilla Grafters, begun with Ian Pollock and Tara Hui: who graft fruit
bearing branches onto non-fruit bearing, ornamental street trees in the
urban environment, among others. I teach Digital Studio at Colgate
University.*

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 6:58 PM Renate Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:

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