Martin Savransky
@martinsavransky.bsky.social
Reader in Social and Environmental Thought at the University of Bath.
Exology: Planetary Upheaval and Social Life (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming).
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/martin-savransky
Exology: Planetary Upheaval and Social Life (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming).
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/martin-savransky
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JOB: Assistant professor in Technology and Social Change to work with new Nuclear Futures research group (cultural, sociotechnical, environmental, and political issues related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste), Linköping, Sweden
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October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB: Assistant professor in Technology and Social Change to work with new Nuclear Futures research group (cultural, sociotechnical, environmental, and political issues related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste), Linköping, Sweden
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In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
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Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
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Glad to see this one out… open access.
Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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August 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Glad to see this one out… open access.
Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Looking forward to traveling back to Belgium this week to give a keynote at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, and see some dear friends!
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June 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Looking forward to traveling back to Belgium this week to give a keynote at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, and see some dear friends!
www.societyforhumanecology.org
www.societyforhumanecology.org
the Urban Institute at Sheffield is one of the few remaining places in the UK where truly wild thinking is still alive and kicking, against all odds. It's an honour and pleasure to be able to pay tribute to them.
June 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
the Urban Institute at Sheffield is one of the few remaining places in the UK where truly wild thinking is still alive and kicking, against all odds. It's an honour and pleasure to be able to pay tribute to them.
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We are recruiting for a PhD candidate to join us on the "Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia" ARC Discovery Project + conduct their own Anthropology project (pref. starting late 2025). Full CfA + scholarship details coming soon @karidahlgren.bsky.social @chrismayes.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We are recruiting for a PhD candidate to join us on the "Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia" ARC Discovery Project + conduct their own Anthropology project (pref. starting late 2025). Full CfA + scholarship details coming soon @karidahlgren.bsky.social @chrismayes.bsky.social
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Read @martinsavransky.bsky.social's review of Stephanie Wakefield's "unflinchingly speculative and fiercely heterodox" 'Miami in the Anthropocene', the latest article from UWP's Anthropocenes Journal www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/1...
The Apocalypse We Become
Review of Stephanie Wakefield, Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025).
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April 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Read @martinsavransky.bsky.social's review of Stephanie Wakefield's "unflinchingly speculative and fiercely heterodox" 'Miami in the Anthropocene', the latest article from UWP's Anthropocenes Journal www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/1...
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Book update: "How to Control Fire" has been accepted for publication and should be out (northern) summer 2026 or so! Very excited to be working with @dukepress.bsky.social on this project 🔥 (image: Sarah Ebsworth, 2019)
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Book update: "How to Control Fire" has been accepted for publication and should be out (northern) summer 2026 or so! Very excited to be working with @dukepress.bsky.social on this project 🔥 (image: Sarah Ebsworth, 2019)
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📣 We are advertising for a Research Assistant to join our qualitative research team at the Burnet Institute Melbourne, linked to NHMRC Synergy work on hepatitis C elimination. 12 months; especially keen to hear from applicants who would like to pursue PhD research.
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Burnet Institute hiring Research Assistant (Qualitative, Public Health) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 5:35:42 AM. An exciting opportunity is available for a Research Assistant to join Burnet!
In this role you will…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📣 We are advertising for a Research Assistant to join our qualitative research team at the Burnet Institute Melbourne, linked to NHMRC Synergy work on hepatitis C elimination. 12 months; especially keen to hear from applicants who would like to pursue PhD research.
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Reminder: we are currently accepting applications from graduate students to join @cplusc.bsky.social as junior fellows this summer to work on progressive climate and economic policy research, design, data, and communications. Deadline is March 3, feel free to reach out with q's. Apps due March 3.
Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute
Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute
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February 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reminder: we are currently accepting applications from graduate students to join @cplusc.bsky.social as junior fellows this summer to work on progressive climate and economic policy research, design, data, and communications. Deadline is March 3, feel free to reach out with q's. Apps due March 3.
Looking forward to visiting Geneva again next weekend, to give a talk on "irreverent pessimism" and add my two cents to the excellent, speculative work that Aline Wiame is doing at Utopiana!
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Attention à la marche !
Découvrez Genève autrement : Promenade sonore à VieusseuxVendredi 18 octobre 2024 à 14h00 [et reprise à 15h30 en cas d'affluence]Rdv à Utopiana, 7a chemin de Mestrezat, 1202 GenèveNotre vie quotidienn...
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February 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Looking forward to visiting Geneva again next weekend, to give a talk on "irreverent pessimism" and add my two cents to the excellent, speculative work that Aline Wiame is doing at Utopiana!
www.utopiana.art/journal-des-...
www.utopiana.art/journal-des-...
Looking forward to visiting Madrid next week (in the first of what I hope will be many frequent visits… more on this soon), to give a talk on some of the work I've been doing in recent years for a new book in the making.
The Disorder of the Living: Thinking beyond ecology
The Disorder of the Living: Thinking beyond ecology
January 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Looking forward to visiting Madrid next week (in the first of what I hope will be many frequent visits… more on this soon), to give a talk on some of the work I've been doing in recent years for a new book in the making.
The Disorder of the Living: Thinking beyond ecology
The Disorder of the Living: Thinking beyond ecology
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For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
December 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM
For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
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"James’s individualism appears dated, unworthy of the present. Yet such judgement neglects its pragmatic dimension, as well as its political connections to James’s anarchistic pluralism." @martinsavransky.bsky.social doi.org/10.1057/s412...
In the fourth person singular: pragmatism, anarchism, and the earth - Subjectivity
Nothing has done more to cement William James’s reputation than his unrepentant individualism. In a present marked by the challenge of imagining modes of transformative action worthy of our planetary ...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:57 AM
"James’s individualism appears dated, unworthy of the present. Yet such judgement neglects its pragmatic dimension, as well as its political connections to James’s anarchistic pluralism." @martinsavransky.bsky.social doi.org/10.1057/s412...
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Hace unos días supimos que esto se viene por fin en 2025 de la mano de Editorial CSIC. Ilusión y agradecimientos infinitos. (La portada es una maqueta provisional.)
December 19, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Hace unos días supimos que esto se viene por fin en 2025 de la mano de Editorial CSIC. Ilusión y agradecimientos infinitos. (La portada es una maqueta provisional.)
Just using my first post here to thank my amazing hosts (Pedro Moscoso & Antonia Viu, Felipe Palma, Manuel Tironi, and Feilpe Lagos) in the trip across Chile from a few weeks ago. Absolutely full of generative conversations with friends and brilliant work by bright, thoughtful emerging scholars.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Just using my first post here to thank my amazing hosts (Pedro Moscoso & Antonia Viu, Felipe Palma, Manuel Tironi, and Feilpe Lagos) in the trip across Chile from a few weeks ago. Absolutely full of generative conversations with friends and brilliant work by bright, thoughtful emerging scholars.
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This is so wild. Edinburgh University owns half of the most expensive city in the UK outside of London, has a shocking amount of precariously employed teaching staff and is now one of the first to announce job cuts post NI announcement.
University cuts stories over the last few days:
*De Montfort
*Dundee
*Durham
*Edinburgh
*Northumbria
*Robert Gordon
*Sheffield
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*De Montfort
*Dundee
*Durham
*Edinburgh
*Northumbria
*Robert Gordon
*Sheffield
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Edinburgh University boss announces job losses due to national insurance hike
The university said it is opening a voluntary redundancy scheme and compulsory redundancies may be necessary "if unavoidable" due to the financial climate.
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November 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
This is so wild. Edinburgh University owns half of the most expensive city in the UK outside of London, has a shocking amount of precariously employed teaching staff and is now one of the first to announce job cuts post NI announcement.
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BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions.
"Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31.
Click the link for the pertinent details.
"Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31.
Click the link for the pertinent details.
Capacities To CFP.pdf
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November 16, 2024 at 7:31 PM
BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions.
"Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31.
Click the link for the pertinent details.
"Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31.
Click the link for the pertinent details.