Join Prof. Theodore Gordon on Feb. 4 for an evening of conversation and performance around his recent book, "The Composer's Black Box," featuring Marcia Bassett, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Luke Stewart at Roulette in Brooklyn
Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
Closeup of soil microorganism
Video of under soil
Crop circles overlaid on traditional agriculture plots
Unlearn the plantation banner
2025 in museums review 5: The Soil Beneath Our Feet, Somerset House, London, UK, visited in March.
ArtScience exhibition exploring the soil as lively habitat.
(A gallery rather than museum, but still GLAM sector)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short 🎬 created by vulnerable communities in Asia.
Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...
Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...
As always, important insights by Adam Shatz.
Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including
@krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social
krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/
pja-verein.de
@spore-initiative.bsky.social
spore-initiative.org/en/
Wonderful paper by Evan Boyle: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the ⛰️ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."
“Some don’t speak,” she told me. “They stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.” Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Laying a Cable Deep on the Sea-bed A spread depicting a series of oceanic “sections” with cable laying ships Tar protection Layers of jute and yarn If an under-sea cable is laid where there are sharp, rocky slopes, it will soon wear through and break. Before laying begins, ships go out to test the sea-bed and measure the depth of water along the route. The cable-laying ship is too big to sail in the shallow water hear the coast, so the first length is laid by a small boat anchored just off shore. One end of the cable. held up by empty barrels, is floated towards the beach, hauled ashore and connected up to the cable-house. The boat then goes alongside the big cable-layer where the other end is taken aboard. The cable-layer carries many miles of cable coiled in huge circular tanks. As it steams along, mile after mile of cable is paid out, sometimes over the bows, sometimes over the stern, and drops to the bed of the sea. The diagrams below show how the cable is made. Through the center run the copper wires which carry the current. Round them are layers of many different materials to strengthen and protect them, and to prevent the current leaking. Gutta-percha Copper wires
A spread featuring section diagrams that show what happens when a cable breaks
…Featuring a couple explainers about transoceanic communication cables!
Tonight!
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New podcast with me on AI, history, science, and the imagination
on.soundcloud.com/WlEH1X8r3hhE...
I don't believe you!!
Congratulations, Lys!!
It's out and available open access!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...
