Benjamin Duester
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Benjamin Duester
@benjaminduester.bsky.social
Cultural Sociologist | ERC Fellow | Georg August University of Göttingen
www.benjaminduester.com

Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury) coming May 2025:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tomorrow-on-cassette-9798765105962/
📚BOOK GIVEAWAY📚 details see below 👇

Books have arrived from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Join us on 12 June for the book launch. Register via the link and enter a draw for a copy of the book.

uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
May 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📚BOOK LAUNCH📚 To celebrate the publication of „Tomorrow on Cassette“ with @bloomsburymus.bsky.social Tyler Sonnichsen and I are hosting a zoom book launch event on 12 June 2025. Join us, hang out and talk tapes with us!

register here: uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@natalieporter.bsky.social on moving to Vancouver, becoming part of the scene and getting inspired by the great female skaters of the 1970s. Natalie’s SSHRED seminar is streaming on our YouTube channel:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHq...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
GREEN PRESSURE ZINE VOL.1 coming this year - stay tuned!
May 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Meet the chair Dr Dave Camilleri for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making.

Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Looking forward to this workshop on #citypop

My presentation „A City Pop Fanon in the New Media Age? Material Genre Formations Between Algorithms, Vinyl and Cassettes“ traces City Pop 10 years after it appeared in the online ecosystem.

Hosts: @oliverseibt.bsky.social @katoken.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Encounters in Taoyuan.
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Had a great time talking about my projects on #cassettetapes #greenpressure and #greenwashing at 國立中正大學National Chung Cheng University! Many thanks again to Miaoju Jian and Chun-Ju Huang for the invitation and excellent hosting! It was exciting to meet new peers and chat about our work. 謝謝你們!
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Excited to be invited by Miaoju Jian and Chun-Ju Huang to present my work on #greenpressure and #greenwashing for the Integrating Technology in the Global South (ITGS) research group at #nationalchungchenguniversity in Taiwan.

Looking forward to connecting with peers and exchanging perspectives!
January 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@limnpress.bsky.social The Obsolescence Issue featuring a piece by @slobster48602.bsky.social and myself. I had a blast writing this article and I am stoked to see the connection between the historic (mixtapes) and present (tape labels) use of cassettes that we’ve traced in it.
January 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM