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Josef Barla
@josefbarla.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Goethe University Frankfurt | PI DFG Research training group „Fixing Futures: Technologies of anticipation in contemporary societies“ | Philosophy of technology, new materialisms, feminist epistemology & objectivity, sociology of the Antropocene
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Ready for holiday time after I submitted my book manuscript to @transcript-verlag.bsky.social today! 🥳 So excited that „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ will be published this year - and with such a fantastic cover (photo by Mari Tefre)
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?
www.transcript-verlag.de
July 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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📣 FIXING FUTURES - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 📣
We are excited to announce that the exhibition ‘Fixing Futures - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ will take place at MGGU (Museum Giersch of the Goethe University) from 5 April to 31 August 2025! (1/5)
March 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I did something different and worked on an exhibition (with lots of fantastic people!) for a change.

"Fixing Futures: Planetare Zukünfte zwischen Spekulationen und Kontrolle" will open on April 5 at Museum Giersch in Frankfurt. Come by if you are in town!
March 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Im Philosophie-Podcast „Geister“ haben @frieder-vogelmann.net und ich über unseren Reader „Feministische Epistemologien“ @suhrkamp.de
gesprochen. 🎧💖

Z.B. hier: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Heute Abend in Frankfurt die Abschiedsvorlesung von Sarah Speck:
January 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I’m excited to share my new article, “Making death through producing life: Necrovalue and the political economy of death,” now available open access in BioSocieties: link.springer.com/article/10.1... It explores metabolic death work in animals and the valorization of death itself.
December 18, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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🌊Troubling waters – mehr-als-menschliche Meere‘ - Gespräch und Performances🌊
In der Mittwochsbar „Wetter Mi.“ im SCAPE° dreht sich am 4. Dezember um 18:30 Uhr alles um das Meer: Ein interdisziplinäres Ensemble erkundet, wie wir in Beziehung zum Meer und damit verbundenen Lebensformen stehen. (1/3)
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Morgen!
20 Jahre nach dem ersten „Glossar der Gegenwart“ folgt nun das Update 2.0. Am 5.12. Buchvorstellung und Diskussion mit allen drei Herausgeber*innen Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann und Thomas Lemke in Frankfurt!
December 4, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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I created a starter pack for people interested in all things social and sociological theory and theorizing. Let me know if I should add anyone.

go.bsky.app/ByNfpie
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Join me this Thursday at CETE-P in Prague for my talk, "Necrovalue and the Vital Politics of Death Itself". I’ll discuss how life is leveraged as a new source of capital accumulation within synthetic molecular biology.
#reproduction #metabolicwork #animallabortheoryofvalue #biocapitalism
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
cetep.eu
November 11, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Exciting opportunity for those curious about how (and whose) futures are made and unmade – from a broad STS perspective.
Our RTG "Fixing Futures" is offering 8 PhD positions (75% part-time, 4 years) at Goethe Univ. Two weeks left to apply!
Details below.
Questions? Reach out: info@fixingfutures.eu
November 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!

It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.

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November 9, 2024 at 5:45 PM
We’re thrilled to pre-announce 8 new doctoral researcher positions (4 years) in our DFG research training group "Fixing Futures" at Goethe University Frankfurt starting May 1, 2025. Stay tuned for more infos! fixingfutures.eu
#PhD #Research #FixingFutures #JoinUs
July 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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📢 We kindly invite you to our next public lecture on 'Climate Changed Futures: On Anticipatory Action in the Climate Emergency', offered by Prof. Ben Anderson on Tuesday, 2. July 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107. (1/4⤵️)
June 12, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Marco Tamborini and I are very excited to announce our symposium „Living techno-natures: biohybrid objects, life, and technology“ at Goethe University on March 7. With many wonderful talks. Keynote lecture: Henry Dicks (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) #biomimicry, #Philosophy, #technology, #STS
January 30, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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CfP for EASST/4S 2024 in Amsterdam

Together with @josefbarla.bsky.social I am hosting a panel on **Un/making more-than-human death and loss**

Find the full abstract & contribute a paper here: t.co/6BgLVnDqsU
Open Panels - EASST-4S 2024 code of ethics & privacy policy
Conference programme
t.co
January 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM