Matthäus Rest
@mattrest.bsky.social
peasant / anthropologist / antifascist: milk & microbes, ancient DNA & energy infrastructures, Himalayas & Alps, working at Uni Fribourg & roadsides.net
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Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
www.middleeasteye.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
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Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden.
#Solidarität
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#Solidarität
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Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland
Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.
rote-hilfe.de
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden.
#Solidarität
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
#Solidarität
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
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Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
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Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
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I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
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Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
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In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
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@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...
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"... the world of my own language has perished"
Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.
Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"... the world of my own language has perished"
Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.
Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.
In his contribution to @roadsides.bsky.social issue on Foodways, André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In his contribution to @roadsides.bsky.social issue on Foodways, André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
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Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
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In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
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In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
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The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon.
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Collection No. 14
Roadsides' Collection No. 14
www.roadsides.net
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon.
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
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Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888