Anne Pasek
@apasek.bsky.social
STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
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I really like the new Anna Högberg Attack. Adding heavy guitar to free jazz squaks is a exactly my thing.
I really hope I can somehow catch her + her band in Stockholm?
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
I really hope I can somehow catch her + her band in Stockholm?
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
Ensamseglaren, by Anna Högberg Attack
2 track album
annahogberg.bandcamp.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 AM
I really like the new Anna Högberg Attack. Adding heavy guitar to free jazz squaks is a exactly my thing.
I really hope I can somehow catch her + her band in Stockholm?
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
I really hope I can somehow catch her + her band in Stockholm?
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
Couple'a thoughts on the staging of public history in Berlin and whether immersion is the best thing to aim for in a museum: sabbatical-ing.blogspot.com/2026/01/publ...
Public Memory in Berlin
A woman I met at a bar asked me what I thought about Berlin. Then, interrupting my own answer, she offered her own emphatic one: "I hate all...
sabbatical-ing.blogspot.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Couple'a thoughts on the staging of public history in Berlin and whether immersion is the best thing to aim for in a museum: sabbatical-ing.blogspot.com/2026/01/publ...
Reminder to self: When you say, nah I'll just write a new talk about that, you are conservatively committing to writing about 6,000 words...
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Reminder to self: When you say, nah I'll just write a new talk about that, you are conservatively committing to writing about 6,000 words...
I had a lovely time watching a 4 hour documentary on the history of (mostly subsea) telegraph cables, analogized through the 90s sitcom Home Improvement www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyB...
The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois
YouTube video by Secret Base
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January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I had a lovely time watching a 4 hour documentary on the history of (mostly subsea) telegraph cables, analogized through the 90s sitcom Home Improvement www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyB...
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"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." - @darakerr.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." - @darakerr.bsky.social
I'm going to Cables of Resistance, a movement conference for anti-fascist/anti-climate delay tech activism in Berlin in April. Anyone else I know planning on being there? cableresist.de#overview
Cables of Resistance -- A movement conference
Cables of Resistance is organised by movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. It will be held April 10-12, 2026, in Berlin, Germany.
cableresist.de
January 16, 2026 at 9:59 AM
I'm going to Cables of Resistance, a movement conference for anti-fascist/anti-climate delay tech activism in Berlin in April. Anyone else I know planning on being there? cableresist.de#overview
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🎤 Join us for our first #LunchtimeTalk of 2026!
Prof. Dr. Anne Pasek, newly started CAIS Fellow, will talk about "Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy".
📅 January 14, 2026 | 1:30 PM
📍 At CAIS in Bochum & online
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
@apasek.bsky.social
Prof. Dr. Anne Pasek, newly started CAIS Fellow, will talk about "Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy".
📅 January 14, 2026 | 1:30 PM
📍 At CAIS in Bochum & online
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
@apasek.bsky.social
Lunchtime Talk: Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy - CAIS
It’s increasingly understood that climate change is in large part a story of class struggle. Traditionally, this is taken to mean conflicts between the wealthy and the working class, or […]
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January 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
🎤 Join us for our first #LunchtimeTalk of 2026!
Prof. Dr. Anne Pasek, newly started CAIS Fellow, will talk about "Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy".
📅 January 14, 2026 | 1:30 PM
📍 At CAIS in Bochum & online
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
@apasek.bsky.social
Prof. Dr. Anne Pasek, newly started CAIS Fellow, will talk about "Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy".
📅 January 14, 2026 | 1:30 PM
📍 At CAIS in Bochum & online
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
@apasek.bsky.social
I've started a blog (!) about life on sabbatical: sabbatical-ing.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:37 AM
I've started a blog (!) about life on sabbatical: sabbatical-ing.blogspot.com
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The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse
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January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse
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I'm finishing up a week as a tourist in Berlin, before heading on to Bochum for my fellowship. I think I'm going to start an honest-to-goodness blog to dump all my public thoughts in, but for now, please enjoy this 👌 painting, hung in the national gallery on the same floor as Caspar David Friedrich
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I'm finishing up a week as a tourist in Berlin, before heading on to Bochum for my fellowship. I think I'm going to start an honest-to-goodness blog to dump all my public thoughts in, but for now, please enjoy this 👌 painting, hung in the national gallery on the same floor as Caspar David Friedrich
What they don't tell you about sabbaticals is that you get to do an evil villain laugh while deleting calendar invitations to department meetings
January 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
What they don't tell you about sabbaticals is that you get to do an evil villain laugh while deleting calendar invitations to department meetings
Another inglorious addition to contemporary #WarroomStudies
oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Another inglorious addition to contemporary #WarroomStudies
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much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong
I LOVED this episode!
Coming in at no. 6, we have a stone-cold classic: "AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic" with @bildoperationen.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
Episode 62: AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic with Roland Meyer
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 2025-03-11 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I LOVED this episode!
My AI-As-Pollution talk is now up on OBVIA's youtube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ClE...
Enjoy my survey of the hellscape that confronts us, plus some thoughts borrowed from discard studies on how to know and act on digital waste.
Enjoy my survey of the hellscape that confronts us, plus some thoughts borrowed from discard studies on how to know and act on digital waste.
The AI Waste Problem: Thinking Informational and Ecological Pollution Together
YouTube video by Obvia
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December 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My AI-As-Pollution talk is now up on OBVIA's youtube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ClE...
Enjoy my survey of the hellscape that confronts us, plus some thoughts borrowed from discard studies on how to know and act on digital waste.
Enjoy my survey of the hellscape that confronts us, plus some thoughts borrowed from discard studies on how to know and act on digital waste.
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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Checking my inbox this final afternoon before winter break
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Checking my inbox this final afternoon before winter break
Pedagogical musings:
I think the next time I teach a media art/research-creation/critical making kinda final project, I need to include a "it didn't fucking work" option where students document incompletes, reflect on the insurmountable obstacles faced, and what failure does for them analytically...
I think the next time I teach a media art/research-creation/critical making kinda final project, I need to include a "it didn't fucking work" option where students document incompletes, reflect on the insurmountable obstacles faced, and what failure does for them analytically...
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pedagogical musings:
I think the next time I teach a media art/research-creation/critical making kinda final project, I need to include a "it didn't fucking work" option where students document incompletes, reflect on the insurmountable obstacles faced, and what failure does for them analytically...
I think the next time I teach a media art/research-creation/critical making kinda final project, I need to include a "it didn't fucking work" option where students document incompletes, reflect on the insurmountable obstacles faced, and what failure does for them analytically...
Good news this week: after my fellowship in Germany, I'll be spending April in Sweden with the fine folks at Digital Futures. Please send recommendations and rumours for life in Stockholm. Currently my list includes:
- seeing Anna Högberg Attack in concert?
- pilgrimage to big ikea
- seeing Anna Högberg Attack in concert?
- pilgrimage to big ikea
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good news this week: after my fellowship in Germany, I'll be spending April in Sweden with the fine folks at Digital Futures. Please send recommendations and rumours for life in Stockholm. Currently my list includes:
- seeing Anna Högberg Attack in concert?
- pilgrimage to big ikea
- seeing Anna Högberg Attack in concert?
- pilgrimage to big ikea
The kids are alright
December 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The kids are alright
This semester I made a lot of optional zine assignments for students. Some highlights below!
We start with a lovingly handmade pamphlet endorsing digital piracy (but play safe kids!)
We start with a lovingly handmade pamphlet endorsing digital piracy (but play safe kids!)
December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This semester I made a lot of optional zine assignments for students. Some highlights below!
We start with a lovingly handmade pamphlet endorsing digital piracy (but play safe kids!)
We start with a lovingly handmade pamphlet endorsing digital piracy (but play safe kids!)
This was great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BH...
AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This was great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BH...
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🚨 New today! In "Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech," @tamigraph.bsky.social examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions have attempted to reform the industry. 1/3 datasociety.net/library/turn...
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🚨 New today! In "Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech," @tamigraph.bsky.social examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions have attempted to reform the industry. 1/3 datasociety.net/library/turn...
I will always pop for electoral reform!
Canadian citizens and residents, there's a new official parliamentary petition raising the issue of electoral reform and proportional representation. Signing is a direct means of meaningful action toward improving our democracy, and it just takes a moment to do. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6993 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I will always pop for electoral reform!