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Esther Peeren
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Professor of Cultural Analysis - University of Amsterdam. Intellectual home: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Intellectual hero: Mikhail Bakhtin. Musical hero: Meatloaf. Favorite animal: 🦛

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · 13h
no, a more extreme way; it means you (can/will) get used to anything.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 15h
I do admire the author for the guts to include this image in his book.
a page from a book showing a self-made meme by the author with the image of a lonely excavator trying free the Ever Given as it got stuck in the Suez Canal, superimposed with text "this book" on the ship and "me trying to write it" on the comparatively small excavator.

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · 1d
Even more useful: “alles went”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 9d
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10d
Watch it here: www.thebulwark.com/p/heidi-heit...
Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurt Farmers
President Trump meets with Xi Jinping and agrees to an embarrassingly one-sided trade deal, as the “China Hawks” in the administration cower.
www.thebulwark.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10d
Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
Immigration is the most important issue facing your country Immigration is the 14th most important issue facing you personally

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Roos Vonk @roosvonk.bsky.social · 12d
Bij Eva aan tafel vinden drie rechtse duiders het vreemd dat GLPvdA niet veel harder is gegroeid. Ja jongens, hoe zou dat nou toch komen, in een land waar kiezers avond aan avond talkshows zien met overwegend (extreem)rechtse gasten en elke dag wordt gezegd hoe “de mensen thuis” Timmermans haten?🤷🏻‍♀️

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 18d
Ghost Workers in the AI Machine

cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:
U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
cwa-union.org

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 25d
Analyse van de partijprogramma's van de verschillende politieke partijen aangaande hun plannen met het wetenschappelijk onderwijs.

Maakt het wat makkelijker te besluiten wat te stemmen, wat mij betreft. #WOinActie

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Oct 10
Call for Papers - Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility Amsterdam, 23-24 April 2026. Join us! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) CfP Cultures of InVisibility and InAudibility Conference (Amsterdam, 23-24 April 2026)
PDF | Call for Papers for conference on "Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility", 23-24 April 2026, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, deadline... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Sep 28
Can you send that to me? I read German even if most of my students don’t!

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Sep 27
Good to know! I’m teaching Enter Ghost this block.

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · Sep 20
Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
nos.nl/artikel/2583...
Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie
De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.
nos.nl

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Sep 14
Student evals have long been repeatedly shown to be racist and sexist. They expect women profs to be “mommy,” they find Black and Latino men “intimidating” www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Sexism, racism, prejudice, and bias: a literature review and synthesis of research surrounding student evaluations of courses and teaching
This paper analyses the current research regarding student evaluations of courses and teaching. The article argues that student evaluations are influenced by racist, sexist and homophobic prejudice...
www.google.com

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12
here is the job ad in English: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · Aug 27
"“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history,” the renowned philosopher Robert Pippin said, “we might not be able to recover that.”"
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
www.theatlantic.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 17
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · Aug 7
“keeping the humans in humanities” 💯
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 7
"Gen Z is not giving up on the arts or the pleasures of reading and thinking for themselves."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.
www.nytimes.com

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · Aug 3
Anders dan de BBB beweert is noaberschap (burenhulp) geen typisch regionale deugd. Ook andere politieke actoren maken goede sier met de term, veelal om impopulaire maatregelen met de mantel der liefde te bedekken (‘participatiemaatschappij’). 👉 buff.ly/fuqPT86

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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · Jul 14
When we talk about "real life" in rural areas, what does the word "real" actually mean? Check out our chapter in this great new volume edited by @estherpeeren.bsky.social and Tjalling Valdés Olmos! brill.com/display/titl... @soc-muni.bsky.social
brill.com

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Femke Kramer @femkekramer.bsky.social · Jul 10
Big Agro harkt het leeuwendeel van de landbouwsubsidies binnen en saboteert de ontwikkeling van gezonde, eerlijke en natuurinclusieve landbouw. Agro-watcher Nina Holland roept op tot gezamenlijke tegenmacht van wetenschappers, boeren en burgers.👇 www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/hoe-de-agro-...
Hoe de agro-lobby gezonde landbouw de grond in boort
Wie achter de misleidende frames over landbouw schuilgaat? Volgens lobby-onderzoeker Nina Holland is dat geen mysterie: het zijn grote agrobedrijven en hun lobbyorganisaties die met miljoenenbudgetten...
www.duurzaamnieuws.nl

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Jul 10
New edited volume on rural imagi nations - out now, fully open access (thanks to the ERC)!
Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World
"Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World" published on 09 Jul 2025 by Brill.
brill.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 24
On the upside, this doesn’t even come close to the top-10 most embarrassing things Mark Rutte has done in his career.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · May 24
“As you read, a line might hit you. You feel struck. You pause. Here’s where close reading happens. Hold up. Linger with that line. Read it again, a few more times. What gives it its force here in its immediate moment? Work out its power. Does it reveal something about the text’s project?”
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com

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Brendan Hodges @brendanhodges.bsky.social · May 12
I talked to Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for
@nextbestpicture.bsky.social, talking his grand, abstracted mosaic of this century's constant change. One of my favorite conversations I've done with a filmmaker in ages, proud of this one!

Read here:

nextbestpicture.com/the-next-bes...
The Next Best Picture Podcast - Interview With "Caught By The Tides" Filmmaker Jia Zhangke - Next Best Picture
Over the past several decades, Jia Zhangke has become the foremost filmmaker to capture not only the rapid development of China through the 21st century but also how that explosive expansion has shape...
nextbestpicture.com

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 12
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · May 9
#jobvacancy Kunstinstituut Melly is Looking for a Curator of Collective Learning.
Bring your expertise in (un)learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and dialogue to shape innovative public programs that engage diverse audiences

www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/pages/836...
Job Vacancy Curator of Collective Learning 7e editie - Kunstinstituut Melly
www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 9
It is time
to remember the ones
who never abandoned
the way to care
for the dead the ones
who said not only my dead
and not only the official dead
matter amidst all the matter.

‘The Historians’, a poem by Maureen N. McLane: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Maureen N. McLane · Poem: ‘The Historians’
www.lrb.co.uk

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · May 8
As a Chicago Pope, he’ll be weighed down by footnotes.
iamhectordiaz.com Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope