My blog and portfolio—a hub for research experience, social media posts, and Fujifilm photography. No cookies. 10kb. Just me navigating global economies, waste, energy, and planetary troubles. RUB Bochum, GER, with some research trips to Hanoi, VN.
With this post, I want to bring a color to the blog, show how I experience my daily life as a researcher in Vietnam, and how I follow material infrastructures. It’s going on in bits and pieces, and some is a patchwork. Last not least, this is also a means of sharing links and snapshots.
Bits & Trees of Data Centres What does it actually mean to trace and traverse the infrastructure and production networks of a very specific building?
How can social science research address planetary concerns and be designed carefully? Two recent articles in Science & Technology Studies address this question with a view to different cases: Conference Mobility on the one hand and Decentralized Social Media on the other.
Jumping on the bandwagon In Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing we discuss our different experiences as train travelers to the EASST conference in Madrid. Some of them were long journeys through Europe, including stops.
Since the end of 2023, I am part of the editorial board of the EASST Review.
I was a board member of stsing and contact person of their tech & infrastructure working group, from 2020 until 2023.
My main research theme right now is data centres: their local arrangement, material legacies, building procedures, and global production networks enabling its operation. I have been living and working in Asia-Pacific for a longer period to follow the actors. The study is conducted in the collaborative research centre 1567 Virtual Life Worlds, in subproject A02 led by Estrid Sørensen.
I am part of the research group On the path to the valuation society? funded by the German Research Foundation. With Emma Greeson and Olli Pyyhtinen, I’ve co-edited a Special Issue on ‘Dis/Assembling Value’.
We’ve been meeting for several years and are preparing a handbook on Valuation and Society (Routledge).
