Jessica Caporusso
@jesscapo.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, York University (Tkaranto) | plants, people, and energy in/of the Indian Ocean (île Maurice) | Practitioner of sensory anthropology, speculative fiction, and the Oxford comma
Reposted by Jessica Caporusso
What are the dangers of consolidating computing infrastructure? This week on #Platypus, A. R. E. Taylor writes about the ways that internet outages reveal the vulnerabilities of centralizing computing infrastructure💻
Read this piece on the link below!
blog.castac.org/2025/02/majo...
Read this piece on the link below!
blog.castac.org/2025/02/majo...
Major Internet Outages are Getting Bigger and Occurring More Often: A Reflection on the CrowdStrike IT Outage | Platypus
Greater societal dependence on the internet means that downtime is more noticeable and more disruptive. This outage may at least prompt organizations to consider diversifying their network security, t...
blog.castac.org
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
What are the dangers of consolidating computing infrastructure? This week on #Platypus, A. R. E. Taylor writes about the ways that internet outages reveal the vulnerabilities of centralizing computing infrastructure💻
Read this piece on the link below!
blog.castac.org/2025/02/majo...
Read this piece on the link below!
blog.castac.org/2025/02/majo...
Reposted by Jessica Caporusso
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
culanth.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Reposted by Jessica Caporusso
Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Decarbonation as Substitution?
(Avec traduction française)
COP28, which closed on December 13, 2023, was presented as signaling “‘the beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel e...
culanth.org
November 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Hi Everyone 👋
Given all the recent activity on BlueSky, this is as a good time as any to introduce myself. I’m an environmental anthropologist working on (neo)colonialism and green energy futures in Mauritius. I focus on the reimagining of colonial crops into durable biofuels and its consequences
Given all the recent activity on BlueSky, this is as a good time as any to introduce myself. I’m an environmental anthropologist working on (neo)colonialism and green energy futures in Mauritius. I focus on the reimagining of colonial crops into durable biofuels and its consequences
November 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Hi Everyone 👋
Given all the recent activity on BlueSky, this is as a good time as any to introduce myself. I’m an environmental anthropologist working on (neo)colonialism and green energy futures in Mauritius. I focus on the reimagining of colonial crops into durable biofuels and its consequences
Given all the recent activity on BlueSky, this is as a good time as any to introduce myself. I’m an environmental anthropologist working on (neo)colonialism and green energy futures in Mauritius. I focus on the reimagining of colonial crops into durable biofuels and its consequences