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Cornelius Heimstädt
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Economic & Environmental Sociology + STS at Humboldt University studying Startups and Venture Capital | PhD from CSI MINES Paris – PSL 🌱
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toteraltermann.bsky.social
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?

Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?

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Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
An expanded repost from Twitter/X
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August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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toteraltermann.bsky.social
And here it is: "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" (open access)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
toteraltermann.bsky.social Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · May 24
If you're interested in storage, time and social life, I've got a new preprint out ... full version soon in @actasociologica.bsky.social

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Abstract This article seeks to understand the role of storage for social time. While social theory has largely interpreted storage in spatial terms, a recent body of literature explores how cold storage technologies affect society’s relationship with time. The ability to suspend life in ice, several scholars argue, leads to a new relationship with time: the future becomes malleable as frozen cells, tissues and seeds are options with which events can be reversed, action can be postponed, and the status quo can be preserved. However, a growing number of empirical studies of cold storage complicates this hypothesis, finding that these technologies are often used to accelerate action instead. The divergence, this article argues, can be understood by linking the assumptions underlying the suspension hypothesis to sociological concepts like value, expectations, and especially practice. It argues that under certain circumstances, storage is best understood as dynamic rather than static. Taking in things and releasing them at different rates, it acts as a form of buffer that can link social activity and flows of different speeds and rhythms without imposing a shared temporality on them. On these grounds, the article pleads for a broadened understanding of storage as a social technique that affects both space and time.
June 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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taschn.bsky.social
If you are curious how 🤖🤖 robotics and digital interfaces 📱📱 mediate #food consumption 🍝🍝 in the home and in restaurants, how artificial intelligence #AI is used to discover new recipes for food products, and how extended reality is employed to study the future of food, join us for
May 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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provokedeconomy.bsky.social
"Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information" @sociologica.bsky.social doi.org/10.6092/issn...
Fabian Muniesa (2024). “Estrangement of meaning in a wealth of information”, Sociologica, 19(1), 185-193. The expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought (“observing technologies of observation”) is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences of “Von Foerster’s conjecture” (a theory of alienation in second-order observation once formulated by Jean-Pierre Dupuy) are used in order to interrogate the depletion of signification in a society that is now conceived of as a computational product. The problem of aesthetics, the essay concludes, becomes then crucial.
May 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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econsocjournal.bsky.social
In the first of two linked papers to be published by the journal, Michel Callon, Koray Caliskan and Donald MacKenzie investigate and argue for a new mode of economization that they term 'ecologization'.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ecologization, part 1: Towards assets-actifs and care practices
This paper analyses the emergence of a new mode of economization: Ecologization. Drawing on Caliskan and Callon’s programmatic articles on economization and marketization, it prototypes an approach...
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May 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
cheimstaedt.bsky.social
Had my second #Persian lesson yesterday and wanted to practice with an app. Turns out Persian—spoken by over 110 million people—isn’t offered on @duolingoverde.bsky.social. But “High Valyrian,” the fictional language from Game of Thrones, is. 😮‍💨
May 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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stefanaykut.bsky.social
Environmental mega-conferences have become key battlegrounds for the future of our 🌍. But how can researchers make sense of these fast-paced, complex spaces?

A thread on our open access (!) volume "Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance".

🧵👇

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Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance
www.cambridge.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jrmdns.bsky.social
— Call for papers

I am pleased to invite you to submit papers for the panel "Re/symmetrizing Care: Thinking Technical and Natural Maintenance in the Anthropocene," which I'm co-convening with Alain Müller and David Pontille at the upcoming STS-CH Conference on Sept 10 – 12, 2025 in Zurich.
April 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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jrmdns.bsky.social
I must confess, I’m mostly here for the promo 🙂‍↕️

DID YOU KNOW THIS BEAUTY IS OUT IN THE UK?
(and in the US in a few weeks)
Cover of the book “The care of things” by J. Denis and D. Pontille
March 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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duycks.bsky.social
🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪
📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms
🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇
March 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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provokedeconomy.bsky.social
"Political Emotions on the Far Right" (Friday, November 8, 2024 @ NYU, The Remarque Institute) -- video now posted online @remarquenyu.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@RemarqueNYU...
March 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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taschn.bsky.social
Thanks for the great team work to my co-organiser to @cheimstaedt.bsky.social !
Both panel organisers next to screen
March 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mpcp.bsky.social
if you are at #stshub2025 come through to our panel on valuating sustainability!!

im talking about why is important to have feminist labor theories of value in sts and valuation studies on corporate sustainability

thanks to @taschn.bsky.social and @cheimstaedt.bsky.social for organizing
March 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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klimavoracht.bsky.social
📢 #Klimakrise? Im #TVDuell kaum Thema!

Laut forsa-Umfrage zählen #Klimawandel & Umwelt zu den größten Sorgen der Menschen. 🌍🔥 Doch im #Kanzlerduell von Sonntag? Fehlanzeige.

Diese Themen sind zentral für unsere Zukunft. Zeit für Primetime statt Schublade! Insbesondere im #ÖRR.

#wirfuerKv8
February 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
cheimstaedt.bsky.social
🌍 Call for Contributions: Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism 🌍

taschn.bsky.social and I, cheimstaedt.bsky.social, invite submissions for a special issue exploring how sustainability is valued in economic activity.

🌱 Full details here: valuationstudies.liu.se/valuing_sust...
Bluesky
taschn.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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mpcp.bsky.social
We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...
Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil
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January 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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loicriom.bsky.social


What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common?

Thank you to Anna Lytvynova for this wonderful conference report on the event that @taschn.bsky.social and I organized last June in Lausanne.

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Capitalization and the Startup Economy: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalism
June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report. What do a secret music concert ...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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beatricecointe.bsky.social
Séminaire Expertises Economiques et Actions Environnementales, S03E02 : avec Leda Dimitriadi et Sophie Tabouret, pour parler d'architecture & infrastructures de l'eau, et de mégabassines.
13 décembre, 11h-13h, salle Chevalier aux Mines ou zoom.

Infos : t.ly/SU45I
Inscriptions : t.ly/zgYT1
Cadrant de quatre images : une mégabassine remplie, le logo du séminaire expertises économiques et actions environnementales, un rectangle bleu clair, une plaque d'égout sur une chaussée urbaine avec les ombres de trois piétons.
December 10, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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provokedeconomy.bsky.social
This was truly meant for the other platform. But, well. Here it is.
December 10, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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timelfen.bsky.social
Because my followers should be amongst the first to know: @limnpress.bsky.social has released Limn 11–The Obsolescence Issue, just hours ago, free to read & reuse by one & all, on its newly redesigned website: limn.press. Or buy the gorgeous print edition. Just go take a look.
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December 8, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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annekkrueger.bsky.social
Out now! @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social Our Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society has arrived! A big thank you to our fantastic colleagues who have contributed to this comprehensive compendium of research on valuation and evaluation in various societal spheres! lmy.de/ASSuq
December 6, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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jcultecon.bsky.social
OUT TODAY! -José Ossandón's review of Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy: cod, capital, and the great economization of the ocean
The essay uses Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean to reflect on how we think the analytical and empirical approach of the...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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gabriellehecht.bsky.social
Perfection
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Nov 24
Optimist: the cup is ½ full

Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty

Proponent of dangerously incorrect carbon accounting: half of the cup has water in it, and the other half has avoided water in it. Therefore, the cup has achieved net zero water.
rsfrankl.bsky.social Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Sep 2
Optimist: the cup is ½ full

Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty

Geographer: actually, it all depends which projection was used
December 3, 2024 at 9:40 PM
cheimstaedt.bsky.social
Hi,

Next Tuesday (31.10.2023) I'll present my research in the "Online Seminar Series in Food Policy and Governance" of the @ecpr.bsky.social.

I'll talk about the assetization of digital agtech and how this process relates to the pesticide industry.

Please join 🌾

ecpr.eu/Events/162
October 29, 2023 at 5:08 PM