Fall 2025 Reading Group: Selecting a book

General Discussions
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At the end of our last call we said we’d plan for another reading group kicking off in September.

Borrowing from @tasha’s excellent questions for our Spring 2025 kick-off: What would make it worth your while to join? Reply here to let us know.

  • That other people you know and like plan to participate? Let us know you’re interested.
  • Would you like to co-host the series or one session?
  • Is there a specific reading you want? Is there one you wouldn’t read?
  • Are there other aspects influencing your choice to join?

Potential readings (newer suggestions from our last series at the top)

What we’ve read

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I would really like to read Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield, 2024

but I’m open to almost any of these. I won’t watch videos, so if you do the TV series tell me all about it, but I’ll catch the next round.

fwiw - I read [2410.23267] Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments on my own finally, and it was interesting but didn’t feel super pertinent to our groups. It did not take long to read once I finally sat down and did it.

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I’m also pretty open, of these Lifehouse is at the top of my list!

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Thank you for helping to organize this! I hope I’ll be able to participate regularly.

If you are accepting additional suggestions for the longer term, I’d be interested in reading one of Lucy Suchman’s books along with other interested folks:

I am pretty over blockchain stuff (or “Crypto”), and I don’t know that I’d want to read more on it.

Lifehouse looks very timely, and I’m down to read that!

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Lucy Suchman is so rad. I loved Human-Machine Reconfigurations and would be down to revisit that, or some of her papers (of which there are many that go hard).

In particular:

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+1 on reading Lucy Suchman. Great choice!
I would add this one to the list:
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence
March 2021,
6 authors, including Lucy Suchman

I’m also keen on reading Lifehouse and the topic of solidarity networks. Also along those lines is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

I’m happy to host a session and take notes for another.

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I’d definitely be down for a paper! Of those, I have only read “Do categories have politics?”, which was great, and I’d be happy to re-read.

This looks good!

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I’m up for reading Lifehouse (mostly because I already own it), but the rest of the options look great too.

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Okay we have our readings:

Next up: Lifehouse
After that: Lucy Suchman (either Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions OR a series of her essays)

I’ll make a new thread for the Lifehouse reading group :slight_smile:

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