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Time to organise, you me we, I suppose.
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#China + 1 actually means Chinese industries moving south. 🌄 This and other gems are discussed in Mike’s excellent recent #Vietnam weekly #podcast: China’s Place Across the ‘Global South’ vietnamweekly.substack.com/p/chinas-… #geopolitics #globalsouth
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So, what is Karan #Barad up to these days? Considering that their theories are gaining traction again, I wonder if there is any recent work? Barad doesn’t appear to be retired, but I can hardly find any publication traces from the past five to ten years. I would love to read more reflections. Quantum stuff. Updates. #sts #newmaterialism Maybe this is also a question addressing the awkward timespace of (North-American? senior?
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I am hyped, because I just learned about a low-cost #airpurifier. CR-boxes. They use MERV-13 filters instead of HEPA. The trick is simple. These things are slightly less effective in catching particles, but you can push much more air through them. Less resistance 👾. Hence a unit is quiet like a wine fly. And #airpollution is gone with the wind There’s even a click-baity clip.👇 www.youtube.com/watch
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Cage homes, a Vietnamese story. This new-ish trend in the capital is tough to swallow. And now, prices are rising. The profit margins must be insane. It used to be a Hong Kong thing (I think), but now it has spread. In Thanh Xuan District, college freshman Ngoc Tam has been told by her landlord that the rent for her five-square-meter [!] home had been hiked by 20% to VND1.9 M.
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Despite decades of struggle, fenceline disputes over petrochemical pollution have rarely posed fundamental threats to industry. Yet the pressure for industrial transformation is intensifying, coming not only from activists and regulators but also from investors and shifting geopolitical interests. Thrilled to read Alice Mah’s new banger book. Petrochemical planet. Go: www.dukeupress.edu/petrochem… #sts #energy #ecology #pollution #waste
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Ein Interview zu unserer Monographie, nun open access: Artenübergreifende Fürsorge? Die Corona-Pandemie und das Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis, transcript news.rub.de/studium/2… #Fleisch #Tierindustrie #Agrarwirtschaft #care #covid
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Campus entanglements, Ruhr University Bochum. #academicchatter