Lindsay Vogt
@lindsayvogt.bsky.social
sociocultural anthropologist (potdoc) at University of Zurich
water, politics, digital cultures and infrastructures, (book) art, photography, right to the city, death and dying
water, politics, digital cultures and infrastructures, (book) art, photography, right to the city, death and dying
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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SI "Strategic Entanglements" is out in Critique of Anthropology!!! Co-edited by Jelena Tosic and me with great articles from Miriam Tola, Charlotte Bruckermann, Katharina Bodirsky, @lindsayvogt.bsky.social Tobias Haller, Anne-Christine Trémon and Violetta Zentai 👏 journals.sagepub.com/toc/coaa/45/1
March 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
SI "Strategic Entanglements" is out in Critique of Anthropology!!! Co-edited by Jelena Tosic and me with great articles from Miriam Tola, Charlotte Bruckermann, Katharina Bodirsky, @lindsayvogt.bsky.social Tobias Haller, Anne-Christine Trémon and Violetta Zentai 👏 journals.sagepub.com/toc/coaa/45/1
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Purging the civil service is a tactic used by illiberal leaders in Turkey, Poland & elsewhere
By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms
We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms
We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
The anatomy of illiberal states
The emergence of illiberal states within the European Union and NATO presents a challenge to Western collective action in an era of great power competition. This report analyzes the illiberal toolkit—...
www.brookings.edu
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Purging the civil service is a tactic used by illiberal leaders in Turkey, Poland & elsewhere
By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms
We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms
We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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We’re very much in the Late Terror stage, where the radical Jacobins who initiated the Terror in the first place (FedSoc, McConnell) get denounced as covert royalists
Good for her. Sassoon is a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk—someone with solid conservative bona fides—but who clearly has scruples.
Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We’re very much in the Late Terror stage, where the radical Jacobins who initiated the Terror in the first place (FedSoc, McConnell) get denounced as covert royalists
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NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people.
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students
The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.
propub.li
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people.
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Might be time to revisit this and write something new about it. The personalistic capture of political power by wealthy private actors for their own benefit has different dynamics from oppression by an impersonal bureaucratic Weberian state.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
February 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Might be time to revisit this and write something new about it. The personalistic capture of political power by wealthy private actors for their own benefit has different dynamics from oppression by an impersonal bureaucratic Weberian state.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
High-tech oligarchy seizing power in US right now formed as a reactionary premonition of their paradoxical loss of power on the very basis of what created their exorbitant wealth in the first place (platforms that bring common ppl together) amidst increasing govt regulation
What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
www.unpopularfront.news
February 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
High-tech oligarchy seizing power in US right now formed as a reactionary premonition of their paradoxical loss of power on the very basis of what created their exorbitant wealth in the first place (platforms that bring common ppl together) amidst increasing govt regulation
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Reuters: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reuters: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
Excellent exposition of the alliances and concessions made between Indian managerial class aspirants and white nationalist contingents and structures in the United States.
aje.io/y53kd7
aje.io/y53kd7
How MAGA fell out with ‘Indian Tech-Bros’
It is no surprise the fragile alignment between Indian professionals and the “America First” movement is unravelling.
aje.io
February 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Excellent exposition of the alliances and concessions made between Indian managerial class aspirants and white nationalist contingents and structures in the United States.
aje.io/y53kd7
aje.io/y53kd7
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“Commercial insurance is not enabling timely and affordable access to health care without fear of medical debt for millions of people.”
America’s health insurance crisis in six charts
Rising costs, soaring profits, inadequate coverage, and crippling debt.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
“Commercial insurance is not enabling timely and affordable access to health care without fear of medical debt for millions of people.”
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Spotlight on #OhioIsHome resources - for people who want to build the nest for Ohio's immigrants.
First up: from Be Well section. The Refugee Immigrant + Mental Health Coalition of Ohio offers comprehensive set of resources for immigrant + refugee mental wellness. ohioishome.org/mental-health
First up: from Be Well section. The Refugee Immigrant + Mental Health Coalition of Ohio offers comprehensive set of resources for immigrant + refugee mental wellness. ohioishome.org/mental-health
December 18, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Spotlight on #OhioIsHome resources - for people who want to build the nest for Ohio's immigrants.
First up: from Be Well section. The Refugee Immigrant + Mental Health Coalition of Ohio offers comprehensive set of resources for immigrant + refugee mental wellness. ohioishome.org/mental-health
First up: from Be Well section. The Refugee Immigrant + Mental Health Coalition of Ohio offers comprehensive set of resources for immigrant + refugee mental wellness. ohioishome.org/mental-health
Sally Montgomery, in Sapiens (May 2024), on dwelling and transcending the human through aquatic dwelling and freediving www.sapiens.org/culture/free...
A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath
An anthropologist takes us on a journey “down the line” to explore what freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea.
www.sapiens.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Sally Montgomery, in Sapiens (May 2024), on dwelling and transcending the human through aquatic dwelling and freediving www.sapiens.org/culture/free...
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In all the talk about UnitedHealth, there's been one missing discussion: its primary partner in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which leverages its massive audience to steer to the insurer, is AARP. This never gets enough attention. Bob Kuttner shines the light:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare
Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?
prospect.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:56 AM
In all the talk about UnitedHealth, there's been one missing discussion: its primary partner in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which leverages its massive audience to steer to the insurer, is AARP. This never gets enough attention. Bob Kuttner shines the light:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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By way of introduction, this out today. Thanks to Wendell Potter for including #moralinjury in his broader conversations. (Working to get him over here…)
open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
When Healing Hurts: A Doctor’s Struggle with Moral Injury in U.S. Health Care
In the winter of 2011, I walked away from fifteen years of training in surgery and psychiatry, working in both rural and urban emergency rooms, and as a private practice psychiatrist, to manage resear...
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:33 PM
By way of introduction, this out today. Thanks to Wendell Potter for including #moralinjury in his broader conversations. (Working to get him over here…)
open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
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Health insurance advocate Wendell Potter discusses violence.
"I sat in simiar meetings, developing and carrying out strategies that impacted millions of people.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/no-place-f...
"I sat in simiar meetings, developing and carrying out strategies that impacted millions of people.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/no-place-f...
No Place for Violence: Reflecting on the Tragic Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
No matter how deep our grievances or how righteous our anger may feel, violence has no place in our society.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Health insurance advocate Wendell Potter discusses violence.
"I sat in simiar meetings, developing and carrying out strategies that impacted millions of people.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/no-place-f...
"I sat in simiar meetings, developing and carrying out strategies that impacted millions of people.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/no-place-f...
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Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
December 9, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
the evils of UnitedHealth explained and historicized
#denydefenddepose
#corporatecrime
#verticalintegration
#antitrust
youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...
#denydefenddepose
#corporatecrime
#verticalintegration
#antitrust
youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
the evils of UnitedHealth explained and historicized
#denydefenddepose
#corporatecrime
#verticalintegration
#antitrust
youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...
#denydefenddepose
#corporatecrime
#verticalintegration
#antitrust
youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...
Thanksgiving regards itself
...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave
...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave
December 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Thanksgiving regards itself
...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave
...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave
From the titular chapter in Lauren Berlant's The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (1997):
Lisa, the commodity failure
#thesimpsons #laurenberlant #smartgirlsinthepublicsphere
Lisa, the commodity failure
#thesimpsons #laurenberlant #smartgirlsinthepublicsphere
November 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
From the titular chapter in Lauren Berlant's The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (1997):
Lisa, the commodity failure
#thesimpsons #laurenberlant #smartgirlsinthepublicsphere
Lisa, the commodity failure
#thesimpsons #laurenberlant #smartgirlsinthepublicsphere