Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out
This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.
#infrastructures #sts #anthropology
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Posts by Matthäus Rest
Claudia Bauer aka das reaktionäre Aushängeschild der österreichischen Bundesregierung streicht Fördermittel für Zara - und man fragt sich: wem will diese Koalition etwas beweisen? Frauenhassern? Gewalttätern? Der FPÖ? Es ist ein Trauerspiel.
Tell the truth and get fired.
Our collection Cryosphere is coming!
This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.
Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
„Die Zumutung beginnt dort, wo ein Nein als Gesprächseinstieg behandelt wird.“ Ein Must-Read von @barbarablaha.bsky.social www.moment.at/story/fall-u...
I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller verliert Klage gegen Campact
Tja.😁
Liebe Menschen, das hier sind die Kämpfe, auf die es ankommt 👇
Folgt @republik.ch und @adfichter.bsky.social, abonniert sie wenn ihr könnt, verbreitet ihre Artikel!
"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography."
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We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten
Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Gerri Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
Immer wieder amüsant, wie der politisch gescheiterte Sebastian Kurz allen die große Weltpolitik erklären möchte, digga du bist an St. Pölten gescheitert und willst uns jetzt Washington und Moskau erklären?
If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden.
#Solidarität
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Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
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In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063