Richard Fadok

I’ll be giving one of the Sciame lectures at the City College of New York at the end of the month. Come say hi if you’re around!

Hey, that’s my new, now-famous, super hip colleague! @slaydok.bsky.social

A facebook post from the American Anthropological Association that reads "Searching for your next role in anthropology? From faculty positions and postdocs t...[see more]." There's a picture of my friend, Richard Fadok, looking very handsome at a podium mid-sentence, wearing a light blue button up with a patchwork motif and black, round, wire-framed glasses. Richard is a white man with a neatly trimmed beard and closely cropped dark brown hair.

hey look it's @slaydok.bsky.social making good on his username

Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.

Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

"Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world." #insects #animallaw #animalrights #conservation #pollinators #nature

Cry, Wolf • Germinate Uncover the story behind the dire wolf and Aesop's fable, a classic tale about trust and deception through history.

Colossal named its first "de-extinct" dire wolves for the fratricidal founder of a now fallen empire and the twin he did in. These names... they've been gnawing at me! So, I wrote about lupine Romulus and Remus and snow-white mythmaking for @g-ehr.bsky.social.

g-ehr.com/essay/cry-wo... #Paleosky

If I have to see another panel at the AAAs titled “ghosts,” “spectral,” or “haunting” (mine notwithstanding 😌).

My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide.

www.sageart.center/frontispace

My collaborator/artist-extraordinaire Mizin Shin & I have curated an exhibit at UR about bird-window collisions that explores what it means to live amidst the slow violence of architectural glass. Details below + a sneak peek @ my contribution, a “weird” field guide.

www.sageart.center/frontispace

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

Let's Talk About Critique - How To Be A Design Student YouTube video by Mitch Goldstein

my first full youtube video is out now - all about critique! i hope you find it useful and i would greatly appreciate you sharing it to help me kick off my new YT channel. thank you! #art #design #critique

youtu.be/Fdos0yeGs1Y

Warning after killer whales seen ‘ramming’ boats in two attacks off coast of Spain Rescuers were alerted to the attacks in the waters of Galicia

We’re so back 🤘

White and grey feather on concrete sidewalk

Yesterday, I expanded and relaunched our bird-window collision initiative as Smash the Crash ROC, beginning with a formal building monitoring study of downtown Rochester. In just 1 day, we’ve already documented 4 fatalities.

To learn how you can help, go to www.smashthecrashROC.com.

You know me well! I added it to my reading list earlier 😅

July 2025 Newsletter: Public goods underpin democracy Plus, more of the latest longform public scholarship from Places Journal. Sign up today. It's free!

In our July newsletter:

From @timothyaschuler.bsky.social: Hantz Woodlands in Detroit offers an example of what we lose when private gain trumps public interest.

And @slaydok.bsky.social talks w/ @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & Joyce Hwang about designing for and with animals.

+ more Places news!

Thank you! Places Journal was a *joy* to work with.

Animal Architecture: In Conversation An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang

IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:

As part of our In Conversation series, anthropologist @slaydok.bsky.social spoke with architecture writer @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social & practitioner/researcher Joyce Hwang about their visions for a discipline that regards nonhuman animals as subjects of human design — and sometimes vice versa. 🦊

My conversation with @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and Joyce Hwang about animal architecture is now out in @placesjournal.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to chat with these two 🤩

I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share!

www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/

I'm launching a site ft. undergrad research from my course Animal Cities. These projects tell stories of Rochester's animals, from the rare Seneca white deer, an accident of US militarism, and bird-banding to the horses that used to power the city. Please share!

www.richardfadok.com/theanimalcity/

I'm excited to share good news: I'll be starting as an assistant professor of anthropology at @rittigers.bsky.social in the fall. What a privilege to be able to think about how we design in the Anthropocene at a university dedicated to socially conscious and environmentally sustainable technology.

What an amazing event! Thank you, @laurajmartin.bsky.social, for organizing!

Happening today!

Free arts workshop tomorrow at UR from 1-4 PM in the Rettner Hall atrium! Soft sculpture and prints of birds, plus a Q&A afterwards with the artists. Message me for details. No registration or prior experience is required.

group of supporters outside an ICE detention center

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center.

We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

And that’s a wrap(tor)

Thanks to support from the Genesee Valley Audubon Society and CollidEscape, these will soon be printed on films and installed on the windows of the Sage Art Center—a building known by occupants to be a long-time bird killer.

…and the rest of it.