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1.1.5.3 No force can, as it is often put, "know reality," other than
through the difference it creates in resisting others.

1.1.1 Nothing is, by itself, either reducible or irreducible to anything
else.

Forthcoming: 'Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth' - Zahid R. Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social y.social @fordhampress.bsky.social www.fordhampress.com/978153151188...

The Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies is born Researchers from different universities and research centres in Catalonia, including the UAB, have created the Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT). The official…

The Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies is born

Arboreal Codes: Trees as Legal and Social Bodies Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

(And I guess I wrote a colonial counterpart, on how trees — through their morphology, their position, the marks on their skins, etc — "mediate the relations between human and social bodies, from neighbors to nation states" :)

Trees With a Secret Message - JSTOR Daily The culturally modified trees of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska bring essential stories of the past into the present.

On trees as living artifacts of indigenous interaction — bark peeled to make a basket, cambium harvested for sustenance, blazes marking trails, indices of generous potlatches

Dozens of telephone wires above the street in colonial Sydney

Technical diagram of early 'telephone tunnels' in Sydney

Map of early telephone tunnel network in Sydney from 1910s

Workers in a telephone tunnel, Sydney 1920s

We focus in particular on a story from the archives about the initial efforts to 'underground' telephone wires in the 1890s, and how the conflict over that process - especially its labour and its impacts on the surface - have shaped urban governance ever since.

The ups and downs of telecommunications infrastructure: the urban geopolitics of communications cabling in colonial Sydney As telecommunications networks have facilitated the outward and upward expansion of cities, their development has also involved downward expansion into the urban underground. The making and remakin...

New paper from me and Marilu Melo Zurita about the urban geopolitics of telecommunications infrastructure in Sydney. As @shannonmattern.bsky.social says, there's "multiple ways to wire the wired city": we tell the story of how this went down (literally!) in Sydney. doi.org/10.1080/0004...