Call for guest editors! The open-access publication series Kulturanthropologie Notizen calls for proposals for the upcoming free issue 2026. Interested? Get in touch with me! #anthropology#STShttps://ka-notizen.de
“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.
No reserved posts can be de-reserved: Education ministry clarifies on draft UGC guidelines
The proposal for de-reservation in case of Group C or D should go to the Executive Council of the University and in case of Group A or B should be submitted to the Ministry of Education, giving full details, for necessary approval, as per guidelines.
Draft UGC guidelines seek to open de-reservation window
The UGC has issued draft guidelines for de-reserving vacancies meant for SC, ST and OBC candidates in higher education institutes and open them up for the general category if enough reserved candidates are not available.
I’m a satisfied reader of Dominic Boyer’s new book “No More Fossils.” What a splendid excercise in energy thinking. Today, Dominic and Cymene published an episode of my favourite academic podcast discussing this very book w/ Cara Daggett. Cultures of Energy ftw.
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
You can find our call for abstracts (and others) here: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/
I have a new paper out on #solarpunk and discussions of #technology! Read "Towards a Solarpunk Theory of Technology" along with the rest of the proceedings from the 2023 Solarpunk Conference:
@PeterKahlert and colleagues are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness."
If someone has a thoroughly researched article on how the recent Tiktok flareup is materially different and more substantiated than the criti-hype around Cambridge Analytica some years ago I am interested #media#sts
ew Interfaces Essay Jan. '24 William Aspray "Is AI an Existential Threat? Let’s First Understand What an Existential Threat Is." provides a compelling analysis of existential threats & institutions studying them.
Hi @stsing, have spent the evening on scrutinising @stsing draft for the #stsingCodeOfConduct. This is an exciting read. Key issue for me: will we get at a version in which a non-stsing member can get into action the stsing ombudsgroup to investigate #AbuseofPower by an #stsing member against a nonmember?
I was asked if there are some films that would be interesting to watch in an #STS class, so here is what came to my mind:
– Mad Max Fury Road has rich worldbuilding around materials and actions (might be also interesting re:"Silence of the social" (Hirschauer))
-The Terminator movies seem to have influenced "what bad AI could do" ideas.
60s techno-optimism can be seen in Star Trek movies (maybe combine with Turner’s "Democratic Surround" and Jessy Gender’s Star Trek analysis?)
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📦 🚢 Wow, Supply Studies curated by @dochock has some neat stuff coming up in the spring!
"a speaker series bringing together scholars & organizers to discuss logistical justice & examine the possibilities of reconciliation in an era of #SupplyChain#capitalism"
Featuring not only me & @athena (a very special event for all you Union.Place fanpeople out there), but also @tamigraph, @bierjess & @miriamkp! Free to register & attend
"Race, and racial difference, was understood as the differential capacity to be plastic. Whiteness was fully malleable, fully capable of progress or decline, and blackness was at the opposite, barely plastic except for maybe a few years at the beginning of youth. This is the underlying scientific framework that holds children as key leaders for managing the racial body of the future." -Kyla Schuller interview
"Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her work exposes how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power."
"Sex difference is itself a racial structure." To me this is one of those once-you-see-it-it-is-everywhere explanatory mechanisms. Impossible to think without it.