Jon Schubert
@jonschu.bsky.social
Political anthropology: #infrastructures, #extractives #politics and #climatechange, esp. in #Angola and #Mozambique; find me Allegralaboratory.net and at critical urbanisms @unibas D/F/E/P
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Jon Schubert
@jonschu.bsky.social
· May 23
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....
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my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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Just to pre-empt any Amazon/sales bullshit taking place this month.
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just to pre-empt any Amazon/sales bullshit taking place this month.
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality"
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality"
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...
Research as Friendship? – Crowdfunding on wemakeit
A refuge for humanity? Slow-paced and transdisciplinary research in Switzerland and Cameroon: Enable a transmedia publication fuelled by a 20 years friend- and researchpartnership.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.
They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.
They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.
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Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
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#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions"
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions"
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions.
By @jonschu.bsky.social
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...
By @jonschu.bsky.social
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions.
By @jonschu.bsky.social
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...
By @jonschu.bsky.social
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...
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Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
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Well, this explains everything about me (1979 baby).
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Well, this explains everything about me (1979 baby).
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It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz
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Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense.
People aren't scared of new tech.
They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening.
They're scared of thirsty data centres.
This isn't hard.
People aren't scared of new tech.
They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening.
They're scared of thirsty data centres.
This isn't hard.
October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense.
People aren't scared of new tech.
They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening.
They're scared of thirsty data centres.
This isn't hard.
People aren't scared of new tech.
They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening.
They're scared of thirsty data centres.
This isn't hard.
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That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
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"Die Bahn muss dem Gemeinwohl dienen und darf nicht auf Gewinnmaximierung ausgerichtet sein"! @bahnfueralle.bsky.social stellt das Konzept "Zukunftsbahn für alle" vor und hat u.a. ein Ticketsystem entwickelt, das auf einen Bierdeckel passt. @deutschebahn.com #Verkehrswende rdl.de/beitrag/die-...
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"Die Bahn muss dem Gemeinwohl dienen und darf nicht auf Gewinnmaximierung ausgerichtet sein"! @bahnfueralle.bsky.social stellt das Konzept "Zukunftsbahn für alle" vor und hat u.a. ein Ticketsystem entwickelt, das auf einen Bierdeckel passt. @deutschebahn.com #Verkehrswende rdl.de/beitrag/die-...
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Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo.
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the #CFP for the 2026 VAD/SGAS #AfricanStudies conference in Basel is now open: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – SGAS-VAD-2026 conference | Basel, 26-28 August 2026
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October 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
the #CFP for the 2026 VAD/SGAS #AfricanStudies conference in Basel is now open: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...