A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.
The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)
Grappig hoe Vlaamse media nooit deze frame zullen kiezen
ehrlich* oops
cover of the penguin book of dutch short stories
a two star review that says "dark, gloomy, unpleasant, nasty stories. not worth the money."
great thread on paul erlich, his legacy, and alternatives
11/ Commoner opened The Closing Circle with four laws of ecology:
- Everything is connected;
- Everything must go somewhere;
- Nature knows best;
- There's no free lunch.
Each one is a rebuke to the linear thinking that produced the crisis in the first place.
Paul Ehrlich and Barry Commoner
5/ Ehrlich reduced human society to population biology. Commoner brought ecology to political economy.
Where Ehrlich saw carrying capacity, Commoner saw feedback loops between capital, technology and nature.
The difference in method produced the difference in politics.
Paul Ehrlich and an assistant catch checkerspot butterflies in California’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in 1960
2/ His instinct, that ecologists had a duty to speak publicly, that ecology deserved a central place in public policy, was right and important.
But Ehrlich carried his training in insect population biology directly onto human societies.
Humans aren't butterflies.
"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles."
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a small black teapot, a mao era teacup with a rising sun motif, and and small glass pitcher full of steaming green tea with visible condensation, all sitting on a green cotton placemat on a small white table
ok deleting this infernal portal from my phone, but before that some advice: drink more tea, support local artists, 读毛主席的书
«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images
enough doomscrolling for the day/week, but: if you’re targeting water infrastructure you’re evil, and if you support this, at all, you’re also evil.
i saw a post recently that somehow migrated from the manosphere to whatever my digital milieu is, and it pains me to admit they’ve 1) discovered anthropology and 2) misinterpreted theories of initiation rites
I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something
trump is married to an immigrant.
New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University.
We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely.
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ai generated hamburger in a mcdonald’s ad. the sauces and the bun look very strange, especially where they touch each other.
AI slop in a mcdonald’s slop ad
new tag yourself just dropped
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“squeeveillance”
essay published a year or two ago in surveillance & society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
“squeeveillance”
LITERALLY just watching
venn* but also venom tbh
venom diagram of gays worried about being transitioned against their will and straights worried about being homosexually hit on
New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
