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daniela russ
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what is unchangeable in nature can take care of itself | assistant prof & historical sociologist | private account
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🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright
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Come work with us at @recentglobe.bsky.social and @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social, for those starting new dissertation projects with an interest in global multiplicity and ethnography uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/0...
2 doctoral researchers (m/f/d/x)
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
alles nur künftige ruinen, material für die nächste schicht
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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HELLWORLD
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Unsere Tagung zu 'Kapitalistische Dynamiken' in Basel hat jetzt ein Programm: die Beiträge reichen von der Kommodifizierung des Monsoonrisikos, Gewalt als Operationsmodus des Kapitalismus, zur Militarisierung des Investitionsregimes in den USA. Kommt vorbei – eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig!
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Lars Döpking @larsdoepking.bsky.social , Fiskalische Herrschaft
Steuern, Staat und Politik in Italien seit 1945, Hamburger Edition @hhedition.bsky.social 2023
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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New book: Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia, by Marko Grdešić & Mislav Žitko
amzn.to/3JoWy1M
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm

spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.
In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Come talk with us about Energy's History in Spore (Neukölln) on 3 November 2025. Register here:
spore-initiative.org/de/programm-...
Die Geschichte der Energie: Vom Kolonialismus zum Antikolonialismus und wieder zurück?
auf Deutsch/auf Englisch/auf Französisch
spore-initiative.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"In 2009 the control room was a calm and quiet place to work. Now alarms go off frequently when voltage surges and the grid becomes overloaded... extreme measures like controlled blackouts might soon be needed" Great bloomberg report on solar's challenge to the grid: archive.is/O4Tv7#select...
October 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.

📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.

➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Next week in Berlin.

All welcome.
October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For those of you in London, a reading on 4 November commemorating the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose’s death.

Coorganised by my brilliant PhD student, Rosie Woodhouse.

I look forward to it. Join us?
Keep your mind in hell, and despair not — The Horse Hospital
Readings for the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose's death, with Aurelia Guo , Danny Hayward , Caspar Heinemann , Mira Mattar , and Basyma Saad.
www.thehorsehospital.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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fantastic book, now in English

divided.online/all-books/bo...
October 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨Workshop Announcement🚨

THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE

Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin

organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt.

Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).

@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.

Come join us!
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
www.cambridge.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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⚡Kicking off the new semester, @ueberdruss.bsky.social and Thomas Turnbull will present and discuss their book "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" at next week's #GlobeColloquium! With comments by Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose💡Join us in Leipzig or online! tinyurl.com/rmvp7p99
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
books aren't written and published, they grow infinitely slowly into the world, one word, page, book proposal, grey strand of hair, sleepless night and website at a time
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM