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New Episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia! (Link below) Episode 48: Marxism and Academia in Soviet Georgia with Bakar Berekashvili After WW2, during the period of developed socialism, a rich ecosystem of Marxist intellectuals and academics emerged in the Georgian SSR.

skimming this and thinking that someone should write a history connecting cold war futurology and contemporary design/technology (critical) futuring ideas...

finished reading this stunning book today. a must-read for anyone interested in how human sciences as we now know them have appeared out of particular philanthropic concern with technocratic societal reform

Bring back Macy conferences

It's somewhat wild that there are so few funding sources on the European level supporting short term international research staff exchange. If anyone knows about such opportunities, please, let me know, mb I am missing something! (Looking for some funding to do a research stay)

i feel like being on x right now, with a few exceptions, is just like talking with ghosts and bots, so, i am trying out blue sky: @dmuravyov.bsky.social

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 W. W. Norton & Company

We are advertising a PhD position in Political Theory! Please let us know your interest. The day to day supervisors will be myself and Paul Raekstad, and Enzo Rossi will also be a part of our team. PS: Through Easter, I won't be responding to DMs here. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…

Whether you’re a peasant or a king the urge to make a podcast burns like a thousand suns within all of us men

Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee, published by Duke University Press, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in 1984 legendary 'Cyborg Manifesto.'

Lee Vinsel It would be cool to see an empirical study of epistemic and material research objects in the technology studies across time. My intuition is that, for example, earlier edited collections in sts had a more diverse set of objects under study

"How to live well with robots?"—this was the central question we continually posed to students in our Robots & Society course over the past two years. In a new paper, we reflect on our experience and outcomes of redesigning the course! sefi-jeea.org/index.php/sefi…

AI_ANXIETY: Zine Publication networkcultures.org/blog/publicati… We are very happy to share the outcomes of the workshop about the AI research agenda in the humanities, arts, and social sciences

No capitalist just took away the SD card slot from phones so that they can make you guys pay monthly subscriptions for online storage.

academic writing is like teaching in that its effects might be seen only years later or not at all. your niche article probably won’t be the key to a future groundbreaking theory, but it might be. to labor under such delusion is both necessary to human knowledge AND romantic!!!

“Brian, Google has all the newspapers digitalized” No they have nearly 0%. Everything is not on the Internet and this is just ONE example, I have 100s of others. — For 1930–1990 U.S. daily newspapers: Google has 0% of the ~2.16 billion pages from ~6,000 dailies. For all