Anne Pasek
apasek.bsky.social
Anne Pasek
@apasek.bsky.social
STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy

Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
Guess who just got access to a primary care physician for the first time in 8 years and so will be doing preventative medicine again! :)
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Sneaky bastards
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yesterday my students did 'dead media autopsies' in class. It was pretty neat to look at electronics across a range of decades, and parsing when things stopped being soldered, and then largely assembled, by hand
October 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I am going to talk to a bunch of lawyers at Yale about AI Trash. Yes, I will be showing them the bad AI slop picture of a scientific illustration of rat testicles (?).
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm making my environmental media class vote in Fat Bear week today with me.

Also: Look at this unit. Justice for 901! explore.org/fat-bear-week
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
September 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wrestling is good
September 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Finally got my shortwave collective radio receiver to work!!!
September 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My noise band is playing with some very talented folks next week. Come for good times! Come for loud times!
September 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
August 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In some personal news I can now lift exactly 300 lbs up a few feet and then drop it
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Looking forward to thinking about the geographical imaginaries of tech billionaires (+ their networks) with some very good company in September! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Joyful sights greet me walking home at 2 am
August 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And in the draft EPA proposal to roll back the 2009 CO2 endangerment finding (which, before the IRA, was sort of the singular meager thing the US federal government managed to do re: climate regulations, and only on the basis of a lawsuit)
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We're so back
July 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Power Shift is out!
This keywords project brings together many long-admired energy humanities thinkers in 1 book of v. assignable essays. In my entry I don't talk much about screen time & instead muse about infrastructure, data sovereignty, and (eventually, a little bit,) bikes.
powershiftbook.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Great thinking on the power of friendship (non-ironically!!!) laid out by @melhogan.bsky.social today at UT Austin's Digital Field Methods Institute.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The fine folks of UT Austin's Digital Field Methods Institute are hosting me as a keynote this year. This means that I get the coolest mail! Y'all are setting quite the feast.
June 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Me alegro mucho de que haya una traducción al español de mi fanzine sobre las luchas en los centros de datos. Más recursos para la gente que se está metiendo en buenas peleas con infraestructuras no deseadas y extractivas.
June 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Goal for CCA/Congress 2025: Don't get COVID again
June 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm playing a set tonight with a telephone pick up, and so I've made a sonic heat map of the different sounds it makes with the rest of my kit. (Not included here is an Xbox controller, whose Bluetooth sync makes a pleasing 'forklift backing up sort of beep'...)
May 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
May 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sometimes they just come out and say M-C-M' baybee
May 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We've come a long way, admittedly.

I'm psyched for your article!
May 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm in this very neat CC collection of mini essays on AI, bringing grumpy materialist analyses of the 'new.' If you need a snappy bit of environmental skepticism, here's 2 pages you can use!
May 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM