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        Date: 2026-06-01 21:35:12+00:00
        From: Alan Liu <ayliu@english.ucsb.edu>
        Subject: Publication of open-access edition of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities (new book in Debates in DH series)

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smithies, and I are delighted to announce the
release of the online, open-access edition of our Critical Infrastructure
Studies and Digital Humanities (the newest book in the Debates in DH
series):
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-
digital-humanities.
(A first-of-its-kind feature of the book is the inclusion of authors'
"infrastructre manifests":
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-digital-
humanities/section/fe1ec2a6-e87b-4d11-ad54-f63550c21680#app)

Book description from U. Minnesota Press:

"Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the
digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical
infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume
explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of
infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different
national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural
genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold
visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism,
decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice,
feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. 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.

Contents:

   - Introduction. “Object of Study”: Digital Humanities and Critical
   Infrastructure Studies (Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James
   Smithies)
   - Part I: Critical Infrastructure Studies (and Digital Humanities)
      - 1. Interfaces for the Anthropocene (Anne Beaulieu)
      - 2. Replatforming (Susan Brown)
      - 3. Networking the Nation: Settler Colonialism as an Analytic in
      Critical Infrastructure Studies (Sarah Montoya)
      - 4. Manifesting Connection: Digital Humanities for the Critical
      Study of Logistics (Matthew Hockenberry)
      - 5. Critical Studies of Tech Stacks: What Can Technologies Tell Us
      About a Lab Culture? (Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel
      Vieira)
      - 6. Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures (Martin Paul Eve)
   - Part II: Digital Humanities (and Critical Infrastructure Studies)
      - 7. Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data (Javier Cha
      and Ian M. Miller)
      - 8. Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based
      Internet Access (Alex Wermer-Colan, Grant Wythoff, Allan Gomez,
and Devren
      Washington)
      - 9. Understanding Multilingualism in Digital Humanities
      Infrastructures (Paul Spence)
      - 10. What’s Missing: Studying Digital Humanities and Critical
      Infrastructure in India (Maya Dodd and Sharika Parmar)
      - 11. Connecting Digital Systems by Whom and for Whom? Taking Stock
      of the Digital Humanities Infrastructures in China (Lik Hang
Tsui and Jing
      Chen)
      - 12. Reproducibility and Contestation in Humanities Digital
      Infrastructure (Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones, Toby Burrows, and Ann Borda)
      - 13. Scrounging (Darren Wershler)
   - Part III: (Re)envisioning Digital Humanities Infrastructure
      - 14. Resisting BYOI (Bring Your Own Infrastructure) in Digital
      Humanities Learning Spaces (Kush Patel, Ashley Caranto Morford, and Arun
      Jacob [Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed Collective])
      - 15. Making Infrastructure Writable (Lucie Kolb)
      - 16. Online Feminist Publishing and Content Creation as Feminist
      Infrastructure in India (Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Saumyaa Naidu)
      - 17. Digital Humanities from Below: Speculating on Solidarity
      Infrastructure (Matthew N. Hannah and Miriam Posner)
      - 18. Imagining a Future of Multimedia E-books (Sylvia K. Miller)
      - 19. Subjective Functions: How Should Humanistic Research Be
      Quantified? (Kyle Booten)
   - Appendix: Infrastructure Manifests (Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger,
   and James Smithies)


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