Campus entanglements, Ruhr University Bochum.
#academicchatter
Good night, #easst4s2024, #photography vibes
Join our panel on Planetary Data Infrastructure right now at #easst4s2024. A two session ride. 👇HG-KC07
We have academic paper presentations and experimental formats such as material hands-on server experiences, and virtual reality applications. It will be a fun gathering. #sts
Awesome audience. This morning at #easst4s2024, I discussed our upcoming book (series) on “Predictions” (Mattering Press, w/ Mél Hogan and Edward Ongweso Jr).
We’re inviting #sts authors to experiment with the format of predictions. A troubling format. But it offers room to imagine and intervene. To show up differently. To learn from sf.
It requires careful editing though, so the comments about where and how to be critical were essential. Attentive folks
Scale and anti-scale.
Today, I enjoyed listening to a three session panel on the #cloud, and a lovely stacked discussion about science, technology and policy work. Inspiring people have come to Amsterdam, and the infrastructure is a bliss.
And now, dinner may commence
#easst4s2024
Check the new EASST Review published just in time for the big #sts conference. Our editorial is quite a political one.
Indeed, it’s time for #easst4s2024! On my way to the registration in Amsterdam, filled with memories of an Utrecht book/zine store.
#easst4s
Pre-conference travels. Stopping in #Utrecht before heading to Amsterdam and the #easst4s train. #sts
Wonderful city, we even found a quirky space incl. #permacomputing.
This Samsung protest (a remarkable one) reminds me of my recent travels to #SouthKorea. I came across a protest against an upcoming LG expansion. Lively publics
Samsung Union Workers Launch Indefinite Strike www.nytimes.com/2024/07/0…
Listening to another great podcast episode w/ Daniela and her critical-theory-ish #energy approach.
Future Histories: Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer #Ökologie
I get the critique of the left re: #labour in #Britian.
The obvious danger is that an unpopular government, made complacent by its grossly disproportionate majority, systematically imposes an agenda that the majority don’t want, and which will make most people worse off. newleftreview.org/sidecar/p…
Yet this is a sort of win (incl. strategic lessons). Think “The Shock of Victory” srslywrong.com/podcast/3…
“Coal plants are being reinvigorated because of the AI boom. This should be alarming to anyone who cares about the environment.
And workers. Life. This is obvious when checking the financial markets, and you feel #AI here in SEA and #Vietnam, with new #coal #energy records, and #airpollution records, amid an alleged chip rush and new factories.
Discussed extensively by This Machine Kills.
Liminal Excavations
A zine that explores alternative visions, ideas and critiques on the topic of #sustainability and #ICT
We’re proud to be of this project. Our 6 pages discuss the Good Data Centre w/ interview material. Graphic novel-style.
#Putin is next door. Spicy for many reasons.
Russia has a significant stake in Vietnam’s lucrative oil and gas sector. Vietsovpetro, a joint venture run by Russia’s Zarubezhneft and Vietnam’s state-owned PetroVietnam, operates Vietnam’s largest oil field.
The profits from Vietsovpetro have generated millions of dollars for both #Russia and #Vietnam.
Why Is Putin Traveling to Vietnam? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/1…
Listening to this splash of an episode:
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: danah #boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Episode webpage: newbooksnetwork.com
Media file: traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK26082…
#tech #sts #ethnography
More #climatechange can mean more #fossilfuels, see the case of #Vietnam:
The reduced output from hydro and gas plants has helped cement coal’s status as the leading power source in Vietnam, especially during the recent heat wave across Asia that boosted demand for air conditioning throughout the region.
You can feel and see it. It’s a constant stream of air pollution, grey daylight.
As young parents you love to send and receive
digger pics
#children #urbanwildlife
#streetphotography from #Hanoi. I find this coffee shop rather cute.
Two of my Canadian #sts friends just popped up in my #podcast feed.
Listen to Mél Hogan and her discussion with Lee Vinsel. Wishful worries and future making. And then there’s the #Solarpunk presents feature with Anne Pasek on Low-Carbon Methods. Yes! 🥌
climatejustice.rocks/@solarpun…
We, the @rustlab@assemblag.es, have written about reading. Academia as reading culture. #academicchatter@a.gup.pe
Please Go Away…We’re Reading. A Practice Approach to a Taken-for-Granted Academic Craft 🤳On.Culture
#Modi lost the absolute majority, the #BJP needs a coalition. #India.
Modi basically controls the national media and has an imperium of (social media) support that is unknown of. And still.
✨Surprise✨
Perhaps prior news commentary was riding a criti-hype.