Utter drivel. Nuclear power is not clean. Maybe send a reporter to a uranium mine? Also, accidents are normal (Perrow). To wit:

Industry: chances of core damage = 1 in 50,000 reactor-yrs of operation, we’re so safe!

History: TMI + Chernobyl + Fukushima = 5 meltdowns in 100 reactor-yrs, so NO

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team!

Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen!

Deadline: May 1st

Hoping to see many of you there!

More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I An open-access grant application in German and English

Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...

we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

Algorithmic Expert Services: When Expert Values Meet Scalability Thinking Individuals who search for expert advice can now obtain it through algorithmic expert services. Expert advice is generated by an algorithmic system and pro

New publication: “Algorithmic expert services: When expert values meet scalability thinking” (Open Access) doi.org/10.1108/S073... First publication with my brother and look-alike @cheimstaedt.bsky.social

Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? An expanded repost from Twitter/X

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?

Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

And here it is: "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" (open access)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you are curious how 🤖🤖 robotics and digital interfaces 📱📱 mediate #food consumption 🍝🍝 in the home and in restaurants, how artificial intelligence #AI is used to discover new recipes for food products, and how extended reality is employed to study the future of food, join us for

Fabian Muniesa (2024). “Estrangement of meaning in a wealth of information”, Sociologica, 19(1), 185-193. The expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought (“observing technologies of observation”) is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences of “Von Foerster’s conjecture” (a theory of alienation in second-order observation once formulated by Jean-Pierre Dupuy) are used in order to interrogate the depletion of signification in a society that is now conceived of as a computational product. The problem of aesthetics, the essay concludes, becomes then crucial.

"Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information" @sociologica.bsky.social doi.org/10.6092/issn...

Ecologization, part 1: Towards assets-actifs and care practices This paper analyses the emergence of a new mode of economization: Ecologization. Drawing on Caliskan and Callon’s programmatic articles on economization and marketization, it prototypes an approach...

In the first of two linked papers to be published by the journal, Michel Callon, Koray Caliskan and Donald MacKenzie investigate and argue for a new mode of economization that they term 'ecologization'.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had my second #Persian lesson yesterday and wanted to practice with an app. Turns out Persian—spoken by over 110 million people—isn’t offered on @duolingoverde.bsky.social. But “High Valyrian,” the fictional language from Game of Thrones, is. 😮‍💨

Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance

Environmental mega-conferences have become key battlegrounds for the future of our 🌍. But how can researchers make sense of these fast-paced, complex spaces?

A thread on our open access (!) volume "Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance".

🧵👇

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— Call for papers

I am pleased to invite you to submit papers for the panel "Re/symmetrizing Care: Thinking Technical and Natural Maintenance in the Anthropocene," which I'm co-convening with Alain Müller and David Pontille at the upcoming STS-CH Conference on Sept 10 – 12, 2025 in Zurich.

Cover of the book “The care of things” by J. Denis and D. Pontille

I must confess, I’m mostly here for the promo 🙂‍↕️

DID YOU KNOW THIS BEAUTY IS OUT IN THE UK?
(and in the US in a few weeks)

🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪
📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms
🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇

"Political Emotions on the Far Right" (Friday, November 8, 2024 @ NYU, The Remarque Institute) -- video now posted online @remarquenyu.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@RemarqueNYU...

Both panel organisers next to screen

Thanks for the great team work to my co-organiser to @cheimstaedt.bsky.social !

if you are at #stshub2025 come through to our panel on valuating sustainability!!

im talking about why is important to have feminist labor theories of value in sts and valuation studies on corporate sustainability

thanks to @taschn.bsky.social and @cheimstaedt.bsky.social for organizing

📢 #Klimakrise? Im #TVDuell kaum Thema!

Laut forsa-Umfrage zählen #Klimawandel & Umwelt zu den größten Sorgen der Menschen. 🌍🔥 Doch im #Kanzlerduell von Sonntag? Fehlanzeige.

Diese Themen sind zentral für unsere Zukunft. Zeit für Primetime statt Schublade! Insbesondere im #ÖRR.

#wirfuerKv8

🌍 Call for Contributions: Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism 🌍

taschn.bsky.social and I, cheimstaedt.bsky.social, invite submissions for a special issue exploring how sustainability is valued in economic activity.

🌱 Full details here: valuationstudies.liu.se/valuing_sust...

Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil

We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...

Capitalization and the Startup Economy: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalism June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report. What do a secret music concert ...

What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common?

Thank you to Anna Lytvynova for this wonderful conference report on the event that @taschn.bsky.social and I organized last June in Lausanne.

easst.net/easst-review...

Cadrant de quatre images : une mégabassine remplie, le logo du séminaire expertises économiques et actions environnementales, un rectangle bleu clair, une plaque d'égout sur une chaussée urbaine avec les ombres de trois piétons.

Séminaire Expertises Economiques et Actions Environnementales, S03E02 : avec Leda Dimitriadi et Sophie Tabouret, pour parler d'architecture & infrastructures de l'eau, et de mégabassines.
13 décembre, 11h-13h, salle Chevalier aux Mines ou zoom.

Infos : t.ly/SU45I
Inscriptions : t.ly/zgYT1

This was truly meant for the other platform. But, well. Here it is.

Limn

Because my followers should be amongst the first to know: @limnpress.bsky.social has released Limn 11–The Obsolescence Issue, just hours ago, free to read & reuse by one & all, on its newly redesigned website: limn.press. Or buy the gorgeous print edition. Just go take a look.

Out now! @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social Our Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society has arrived! A big thank you to our fantastic colleagues who have contributed to this comprehensive compendium of research on valuation and evaluation in various societal spheres! lmy.de/ASSuq

Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy: cod, capital, and the great economization of the ocean The essay uses Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean to reflect on how we think the analytical and empirical approach of the...

OUT TODAY! -José Ossandón's review of Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Perfection

Hi,

Next Tuesday (31.10.2023) I'll present my research in the "Online Seminar Series in Food Policy and Governance" of the @ecpr.bsky.social.

I'll talk about the assetization of digital agtech and how this process relates to the pesticide industry.

Please join 🌾

ecpr.eu/Events/162