For me, this time between Xmas and YNE has been one of redesigning and optimising websites. Personal and community sites. Hugo and WordPress.
It is a semi-appreciated task, but I’ve been nerding out a little and I like the hands-on challenges of the web. 👾
#academicchatter #sts #webdesign
Winter is tough in Asia, our Air Quality Index regularly cracks the 300 mark. Top 3 world-wide for #Hanoi. How do you even grasp the consequences?
We have a remarkably privileged apartment and put a lot of effort into sealing and air purification. It creeps in quickly nonetheless. And a decade of coal expansion lies in front of residents here, and to the north, and to the West.
#airpollution #climate
Charging the house. Pending.
#photography #Vietnam #Hanoi
Our toddler loves the word for #waste (or “Boe”, as he calls it??), and the appropriate things quickly have to go into the bin. It’s something. Marvelous.
But
Little does he know about the fallacies of modern consumer “disposability” ideologies and improper accountability of producing companies, let alone the academic misconceptions of the notion of matter out of place and how it creeps up into our understanding of global recycling relations and the appropriation of land.
Caring for European Science & Technology Studies: EASST review 42(2) is out! #STS reports, postdoc life, decolonisation, extractivism, pollution, and a tribute to Evelyn Fox Keller.
From now on I am part of the editorial board.😊
Mapping controversies around #semiconductor production in #Vietnam. Live project; a fantastic collaboration with the team of Hanoi Ad Hoc. More about this during a workshop in March.
Check out Hanoi Ad Hoc, because it’s marvellously inspiring. Trung rocks.
#tech #sts
My dear friends from RUSTlab commented on my lecture. A delight!
Stefan suggested the notion of stand-in to understand not only workers and nature, but also natural and technical reserves that sustain capitalism … Stand-ins are components in planning and creating futures; they make up an awaiting potential – a virtuality – that is needed for capitalist futures.
rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comment-o…
#sts #capital
Comparing Fediverse software for hosting: Ease of use, efficiency, waste
Nights out in #Hanoi, lights not out. West Lake.
#Vietnam #photography
SNAP, why did The Verge publish this masterpiece on the end of #twitter?
I’m just lmao about Gwen Stefani spelling bananas in the spelling bee competition, and other nonsense!
What an archive
#MastodonMigration
Why do critical thinkers on a very solid payroll put their blogs behind a corporate paywall? Looking at you, Bill McKibben, Adam Tooze, and others.
Maybe it’s the design and ease of networking. But I find this questionable. And annoying.
#substack #blogging #publishing
#Dubai is where feudal capitalism thrives: built on oil and gas capital, maintained by monopolists and clerks, growing through construction and real estate investment by lazy rentiers. Then there are the expats and tourists who believe in upgrading through affiliation, many embracing fitness and plastic surgery. But you cannot climb into the ranks of the kings. Everyone speeds up though, driving up the energy demand in the name of hope. More is never enough. That’s the home of #COP28.
Up next, responsible yachting.
#COP28 Green Zone in a nutshell. 🤷🏻♂️
Perhaps due to widespread concerns around the issue of women aging out of factory work, Samsung itself offers its workers training courses that could help them become professional makeup artists, hairdressers, and manicurists.
A splendid text by Rest of the World’s Lam Le, who is an inspiring journalist in various ways. This text shows how factories spawn a peculiar environment. New IT realities.
#Samsung #IT #Hanoi #Vietnam #beauty #journalism #globalvaluechains #sts
Hi folks, I’m onto something. The Sheikh #capitalism of drilling 4,000m deep to tickle dinosaur remains and pump them into 700m high concrete and glass structures and Manchester City F.C. is perhaps not the most sustainable. But more studies are required.
Follow my substack.
#Dubai #COP28
#Dubai is as an offensively clean city. Not only for #COP28. It’s officials are putting matters into place.
Tilting the perspective with a few shots of infrastructures doing the heavy lifting.
The threatening margins?, as Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson would have put it. #wastestudies #sts
Arrived in UAE.
Is anyone in concrete town #Dubai for #COP28? Keen on talking #sts, semiconductors, data centres, e-waste.
100 min. delay, I’m in the Deutsche Bahn game, again.
Obsolescence instead of transformation, as I’ve phrased it. There will be no green transformation of mobility in Germany if there’s no recognition of the complexities of obsolescence. Maintenance is a daily task to attend to and invest in. Or not. 🤷🏻♂️
dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ub…
#db #mobilität #bahn #train #infrastructure #ecology
Thinking like a waste scholar
Subsurface surfing. With the help of the maintenance staff, we went underground, following the maintenance track that connects all buildings on our Ruhr campus.
In total, it’s more than 8 km, we walked 2.5 km, from the uni datacentre to our faculty building.
#sts #infrastructure #it #photography
