Diego Cerna Aragon
@dc-a.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ MIT | media studies; cultural economy; technoscience in Latin America; environmental history | mostly en español | usual disclaimers
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Diego Cerna Aragon
@dc-a.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats - Policy Sciences
The production of state legibility has been a prolific subject of study. However, most works have not paid much attention to the quotidian labor of the street-level bureaucrats that implement legibili...
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🚨New publication (w/ L. Garcia): Our article explores the daily labor of Peruvian street-level bureaucrats in charge of translating people's sociomaterial conditions into data for a system that provides automated economic classifications to access social welfare services. doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/4
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Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
An expanded repost from Twitter/X
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August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
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Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
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I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
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#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
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Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025
Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
www.yorku.ca
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
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Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
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📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking
→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead
Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead
Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty
The derisking state has by now emerged as the key aspirational agent of the energy transition. But what is the concept of risk involved in derisking? This article places debates about derisking wit...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking
→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead
Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead
Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I enjoyed reading this @policysciences.bsky.social article by @dc-a.bsky.social & García. It identifies challenges for Peru's street-level bureaucrats in poverty policy implementation, such as unclear eligibility & poverty definitions inconsistent with reality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I enjoyed reading this @policysciences.bsky.social article by @dc-a.bsky.social & García. It identifies challenges for Peru's street-level bureaucrats in poverty policy implementation, such as unclear eligibility & poverty definitions inconsistent with reality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨New publication (w/ L. Garcia): Our article explores the daily labor of Peruvian street-level bureaucrats in charge of translating people's sociomaterial conditions into data for a system that provides automated economic classifications to access social welfare services. doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/4
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats - Policy Sciences
The production of state legibility has been a prolific subject of study. However, most works have not paid much attention to the quotidian labor of the street-level bureaucrats that implement legibili...
doi.org
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🚨New publication (w/ L. Garcia): Our article explores the daily labor of Peruvian street-level bureaucrats in charge of translating people's sociomaterial conditions into data for a system that provides automated economic classifications to access social welfare services. doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/4
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Call for papers: @4sweb.bsky.social 4S Open Panel on "Assetization through time and space" organized by myself, Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susi Geiger, & Jacob Hellman
#STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization
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#STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization
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Call for SubmissionsSearchMobile Menu
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January 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Call for papers: @4sweb.bsky.social 4S Open Panel on "Assetization through time and space" organized by myself, Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susi Geiger, & Jacob Hellman
#STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization
www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
#STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization
www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
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"In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, placing money, credit, and smuggling at the center of the region's shifting fortunes." doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Money, Value, and the State
Cambridge Core - African Studies - Money, Value, and the State
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January 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, placing money, credit, and smuggling at the center of the region's shifting fortunes." doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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"How discounted cash flow became the natural way of responding to our collective problems" - José Ossandón interviews Liliana Doganova @delaeconomia.bsky.social estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/h...
January 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"How discounted cash flow became the natural way of responding to our collective problems" - José Ossandón interviews Liliana Doganova @delaeconomia.bsky.social estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/h...
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Sitting above this is that Sam Altman has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit lines that he pulls on from JP Morgan that he then puts into companies that do business with OpenAI. Yet another mark in the "everything with this is completely sane" column.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
December 28, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Sitting above this is that Sam Altman has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit lines that he pulls on from JP Morgan that he then puts into companies that do business with OpenAI. Yet another mark in the "everything with this is completely sane" column.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
December 28, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
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I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook!
“Are We All Dead in the Long Run?”
Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead
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Chartbook 342 Are we all dead in the long run? John Maynard Keynes and the politics of time
Guest essay by Stefan Eich
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December 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook!
“Are We All Dead in the Long Run?”
Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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You probably know the story of the Chicago Boys in Chile under Pinochet. But neoliberalism has a longer history in Latin America. We invited HPE Project grantees César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and @antonio-galindo.bsky.social to a roundtable to discuss: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-lat...
New Latin American Perspectives on the History of Neoliberalism — History & Political Economy Project
A roundtable discussion with César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and José Antonio Galindo Domínguez
www.hpeproject.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:58 PM
You probably know the story of the Chicago Boys in Chile under Pinochet. But neoliberalism has a longer history in Latin America. We invited HPE Project grantees César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and @antonio-galindo.bsky.social to a roundtable to discuss: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-lat...
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Have to finish setting this up later but for now: new publication! Using the Birmingham School's subcultural theory to look at political compass memes, we attempt to theorize how "digital political subcultures" are refashioning political subjectivity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revolution by other memes: on the playful subcultures of r/PoliticalCompassMemes
Based on an analysis of 300k opening posts to the popular image-based discussion forum r/PoliticalCompassMemes, in this paper we offer an empirical analysis of how the ‘political compass’ meme temp...
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December 4, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Have to finish setting this up later but for now: new publication! Using the Birmingham School's subcultural theory to look at political compass memes, we attempt to theorize how "digital political subcultures" are refashioning political subjectivity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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boundary2 just published a forum on the gordian knot of finance, where @stefeich.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, Janet Roitman, Dick Bryan, and myself reflect on the infuriating hold of finance on economic policy (and how to break it)
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the gordian knot of finance | special issue
This special issue is hosted by the "Finance and Fiction" dossier of the b2o Review, which is edited by Arne De Boever and Mikkel Krause Frantzen. Volume 6, Issue 1 (December 2024) Special Issue: Th...
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December 12, 2024 at 10:49 PM
boundary2 just published a forum on the gordian knot of finance, where @stefeich.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, Janet Roitman, Dick Bryan, and myself reflect on the infuriating hold of finance on economic policy (and how to break it)
www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...
www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...
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What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common?
Thank you to Anna Lytvynova for this wonderful conference report on the event that @taschn.bsky.social and I organized last June in Lausanne.
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Capitalization and the Startup Economy: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalism
June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report
The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report.
What do a secret music concert ...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM
What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common?
Thank you to Anna Lytvynova for this wonderful conference report on the event that @taschn.bsky.social and I organized last June in Lausanne.
easst.net/easst-review...
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✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Los hechos nunca andan solos: The future of facts in Latin America
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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December 11, 2024 at 4:21 AM
✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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'Paranoid Finance' now out also in the U.S. of A. @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
December 9, 2024 at 9:40 AM
'Paranoid Finance' now out also in the U.S. of A. @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Beyond mining: physical commodity traders, market intermediation and the role of (de-)coupling - Stefan Leins @stefananthro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond mining: physical commodity traders, market intermediation and the role of (de-)coupling
Economic activities that involve natural resources are often associated with precarious terms of employment, uneven relationships between local communities and state authorities and transregional i...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Beyond mining: physical commodity traders, market intermediation and the role of (de-)coupling - Stefan Leins @stefananthro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....