Jan Gärtner

The rise and threatened fall of planetary thinking - Communications Earth & Environment The research infrastructure of Earth science depends fundamentally on international cooperation, open-data exchange, and long-term institutional support. This Comment argues that growing global threat...

More than happy to share our new publication on geo-political threats on Planetary thinking:

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Technology Technology broadly refers to objects or actions that are linked to tekhne, an ancient Greek term for ‘skill’ or ‘craftmanship’. Anthropologists of technology sometimes employ this understanding as a s...

Anthropology thinks of "technology beyond the machines of Western industrial-capitalism & engages with technologies across time & space, and across human & non-human actors", write Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer, in OEA's latest entry on technology. www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/techno...

Halte dieses Semester ein Seminar zu digitalem Kapitalismus und muss angesichts der jüngsten 8 Monate sagen, dass die Texte von 2012-2023 das politisch-dystopisch, autoritäre Potential des Zusammenfalls von Vorhersagetechnologien und Monopolen in „Big Tech“ noch unterschätzt haben.

HELP!
bin grad ohne meine Bibliothek, muss in wenigen Tagen die Druckfahne freigeben - welche Seite aus dem suhrkamp-Band von Laufenberg/Trott ist das Zitat?

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@bentrott.bsky.social ?

The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project - Lea Zierott, Katharina Block, Ulf Bohmann, Michael Ernst-Heidenreich, Henning Laux, 2025 We analyze paradoxes of a dispositif of a closed future generated by the successes of the eco-emancipatory project (EEP). The current anticipation of an impendi...

Very happy to share our new publication, co-authored by Lea Zierott, Ulf Bohmann, @heidenernst.bsky.social, Henning Laux: doi.org/10.1177/1368...

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I’m happy to share our new article in npj Climate Action on the Conflict>Climate-Nexus, co-authored by Manfred Lenzen, Mengyu Li and Jan Gärtner.

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation

Very happy to share a new publication on the impacts of geopolitical conflicts on climate change mitigation that I had the opportunity to co-author with @katharinablock.bsky.social , Mengyu Li and Manfred Lenzen.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Un/Verfügbar - Nomos eLibrary Im 21. Jahrhundert kulminiert die Verfügbarmachung der Welt, des Selbst und des Sozialen in einer stetigen Zunahme komplexer gesellschaftlicher Transforma…

Open Access:
Wir freuen uns über die gemeinsame Publikation zu einer Soziologie des Un/Verfügbaren mit Beiträgen von u.a. Elena Beregow, Andreas Bischof, Ulf Bohmann, Michael Ernst-Heidenreich und Catharina Peeck-Ho: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

Das Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit Die Erforschung der Geschichte und die Gestaltung der Zukunft der Arbeit sind das Anliegen unseres Instituts. Es will in diesem Transformationsprozess Impulse für die Gestaltung guter Arbeit in der...

Es gehört wohl zum heutigen akademischen Kapitalismus, dass der Abschluss eines wertvollen Riesenprojekts wie dieses weitgehend unbeachtet bleibt. Sieben Bände Sozialgeschichte der Arbeit von den Anfängen des Homo Sapiens bis in die Gegenwart. https://igza.org/mm2023/

Kleiner Crashkurs in politischer Psychologie: Wenn etablierte Parteien AfD-Positionen kopieren, um Wähler "zurückzuholen", passiert genau das Gegenteil. Warum? Menschen bevorzugen bei ideologischen Positionen das Original. Die Sozialpsychologie nennt das den "Authentizitätseffekt": 🧵 1/5

Midjourney-generated images, prompt was: workers in a factory, highly realistic --ar 4:3

With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇

My disgust at the idea that a definitive “repository of all human knowledge & culture” is both desirable *and* possible was exactly why I wrote “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being.”

There are MANY forms of cultures & knowledges beyond the language-based logocentric ones AI captures. +