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We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0
We've got a lot on in February! The next installment of A Thousand Wetlands: Capitalism as Drainage, Dams and Delusions, discussing online Feb 10
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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#envhist #envhum #nuclear
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...
the pleasure was mine, Tim! thanks so much for the intellectual hospitality and exchange!
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Glad to see this one out… open access.
Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Society for Human Ecology International Conference
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
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.
🙏 very kind!
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
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...
A helicopter drops water on a large wildfire burning through forest and emitting a large smoke plume.
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)
📣 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.
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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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
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...
nice find! :)
"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...
wow!!
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.
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.
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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.