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Benjamin Duester
@benjaminduester.bsky.social
Cultural Sociologist | ERC Fellow | Georg August University of Göttingen
www.benjaminduester.com

Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury) coming May 2025:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tomorrow-on-cassette-9798765105962/
📚BOOK GIVEAWAY📚 details see below 👇

Books have arrived from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Join us on 12 June for the book launch. Register via the link and enter a draw for a copy of the book.

uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
May 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📚BOOK LAUNCH📚 To celebrate the publication of „Tomorrow on Cassette“ with @bloomsburymus.bsky.social Tyler Sonnichsen and I are hosting a zoom book launch event on 12 June 2025. Join us, hang out and talk tapes with us!

register here: uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Dermo on viewing the world through BMX
May 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The SSHRED panel on Place and Meaning Making in BMX is now streaming on our YouTube channel. Check out a story on viewing the world through BMX told by Dr Dave Camilleri

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUI...
May 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@natalieporter.bsky.social on moving to Vancouver, becoming part of the scene and getting inspired by the great female skaters of the 1970s. Natalie’s SSHRED seminar is streaming on our YouTube channel:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHq...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
GREEN PRESSURE ZINE VOL.1 coming this year - stay tuned!
May 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#SLOTY 🤣 Still waiting for my copy but getting close! Feeling especially pleased that I snuck in a shout out to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in response to... Read anything good lately? #Thrasher #interview #skaterlibrarian
March 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Meet panelist Dr Yiyin Ding for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making.

Session this Thursday check for the zoom link:

sshredblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/p...

Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Meet panelist Mike Vockenson for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making.

Session this Thursday check for the zoom link:

sshredblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/p...

Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Meet the chair Dr Dave Camilleri for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making.

Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Meet the chair Dr Dave Camilleri for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making.

Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Coming up first SSHRED panel on Place and Meaning Making in BMX featuring Dr Dave Camilleri, Mike Vockenson, Dr Yiyin Ding, Dermo and David Cragg

17 April 2025

London 9am | Berlin 10am | Shanghai 4pm | Sydney 6pm
Panel: Place and Meaning Making in BMX
Panel – 17 April 2025 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 850 7380 3779Passcode: 220603 London 9am | Berlin 10am | Shanghai 4pm | Sydney 6pm Featuring: Chair: Dr Dave Camilleri Panelists: …
sshredblog.wordpress.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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@natalieporter.bsky.social Natalie Porter‘s SSHRED seminar is now live on our YouTube channel!
Hosted by Talia Kaufman
@indigowilling.bsky.social
@benjaminduester.bsky.social
SSHRED Seminar #13 Natalie Porter on Pulse Check: the highs and lows of skateboarding’s history
YouTube video by SSHRED
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April 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Register here for our SSHRED seminar 13 on Tuesday, 8 April Pacific Time PDT 1pm /London 9pm / Berlin 10pm / Sydney 6am (9 April) with @natalieporter.bsky.social hosted by Talia Kaufman and organised by @indigowilling.bsky.social and me.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SSHRED Seminar - Natalie Porter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SSHRED Seminar - Natalie Porter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I think I need this bag
March 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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SSHRED Seminar 13 coming up on 8 April 2025
Pacific Time PDT 1pm /London 9pm / Berlin 10pm / Sydney 6am (9 April)

@natalieporter.bsky.social hosted by Talia Kaufman
March 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
SSHRED Seminar #12 Sander Hölsgens @sanderholsgens.bsky.social on Skateboarding and Slow Cinema
SSHRED Seminar #12 Sander Hölsgens on Skateboarding and Slow Cinema
YouTube video by SSHRED
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March 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Excited to say I am co-curating a new project 'The Museum of Polluted Leisure' with Clifton Evers and Tom Critchley. The collection archives encounters where pollution meets leisure and leisure meets pollution.

Drop us a follow on instagram: www.instagram.com/the_museum_o...

Photo: Martin Parr
March 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Looking forward to this workshop on #citypop

My presentation „A City Pop Fanon in the New Media Age? Material Genre Formations Between Algorithms, Vinyl and Cassettes“ traces City Pop 10 years after it appeared in the online ecosystem.

Hosts: @oliverseibt.bsky.social @katoken.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
SSHRED seminar with Dela Anyah this Tuesday. Check our blog for the times and zoom link:

sshredblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/s...
SSHRED Seminar 11: Dela Anyah
After the Races, After the Stunts, After You Need Me No More: A Bicycle Tire Story Talk 11 – 25 February 2025 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 851 4666 3295Passcode: 977786 Accra & …
sshredblog.wordpress.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Still the most consequential few seconds of film that any of us will ever see.

www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/video...
Swastika blown up on the Nuremberg Stadium.
Swastika blown up on the Nuremberg Stadium.
www.gettyimages.com.au
February 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Encounters in Taoyuan.
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Dela Anyah, an artist, reimagines objects discarded in Accra’s vulcanizer shops for Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/art-...
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Had a great time talking about my projects on #cassettetapes #greenpressure and #greenwashing at 國立中正大學National Chung Cheng University! Many thanks again to Miaoju Jian and Chun-Ju Huang for the invitation and excellent hosting! It was exciting to meet new peers and chat about our work. 謝謝你們!
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM