THIS IS BAD.
🚨 CNN: Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Dozens laid. Hundreds more possible in the coming days.
This changes everything.
Closing the Strait with naval presence is reversible. Mining it is not. Every ship that enters now risks hitting a mine. Insurance companies
Another paper from the TCS SI on "Planetary Property" is online. In their electrifying piece, Alain Pottage and @bernardkeenan.bsky.social read Carl Schmitt through the lens of electricity.
nazi propaganda against 'foreign electricity' (at a time when german power companies supplied still 30 percent of the world market!).
'In empty halls – mammoth machines
Up and down the country – masts and wires
The triumph of the machine? No.'
I reviewed Barry Eichengreen's new book about global currencies and the future of the dollar, check it out:
Die Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie freut sich sehr, auch in diesem Jahr wieder den Karl-Polanyi-Preis für eine herausragende Monografie auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie auszuloben.
(Selbst-)Nominierungen nimmt der Vorstand gerne bis zum 30.4. entgegen.
Wir freuen uns über Reposts :)
can you dm me if you still need this?
reading this, but like a novel: just now Snowball Earth unleashes the Great Unconformity that forms the Great Bank ultimately leading to the second, ongoing Great Oxidation Event
reading this, but like a novel: just now Snowball Earth unleashes the Great Unconformity that forms the Great Bank ultimately leading to the second, ongoing Great Oxidation Event
👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.
Screenshot of the ReCentGlobe Druckfrisch website featuring a link to the book talk video and an image from the event
I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook
#envhist
Commenting on Timothy Mitchell’s new book on Thursday with Chris Desan at Harvard.
Register here to join: sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectu...
In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory in Context, Jacob Blumenfeld interviews Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about @abenanav.bsky.social's proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. www.indep.network/critical-the...
i have notes on a 'global history of resource' seminar, but haven't taught it yet. polity has a resource book series that also features some elements: www.politybooks.com/serieslandin...
My department is hiring a professor in the history of science! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Monday Listening: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar episode 97, Verena Halsmayer (University of Vienna) speaks about her book Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow's Model as an Artifact (CUP 2024), Interventionist Social Knowledge, and alternative economic planning.
hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...
Did this interview with Barry Eichengreen about his forthcoming book on the history of international currencies and what it tells us about the dollar (and the euro) today. geopolitique.eu/en/2026/02/2...
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
hilarious article about the horrible, no good, very bad, new tech AI startup generation
harpers.org/archive/2026...
I would take a pay cut to not have an email address.
Heute Abend in Berlin zu Fragen der Militarisierung @w-und-f.bsky.social. Kommt vorbei!
Für die Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie durfte ich Mischa Suters "Geld an der Grenze. Souveränität und Wertmaßstäbe im Zeitalter des Imperialismus" rezensieren:
rdcu.be/e4Mas
really appreciate this double review:
The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition, by Jacob Blumenfeld, Routledge, 2023
Property and its Forms in Classical German philosophy, by David James. Cambridge 2023
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"In the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight—including jet engines."
my personal favorite 🤩
as max says, most uni libraries hold hard copies of the books and magazines. i can have a look at the artikelbibliographie next time i'm at stabi.
what exactly are you looking for? the monthly magazine or the buchbeigabe?
University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...
I'm working on a reader (in both English and German) to collect literature critical of the employment of generative AI technologies within academic contexts.
Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
the purpose of my list is broader, but perhaps there's something for you in there: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
