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rheinze

@rheinze@assemblag.es

Historian, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris. media history (esp. radio) and history & political economy of public transport infrastructure in Africa. Topics on this account: media theory, political economy of technology, politics especially regarding African history. Private account for activism & theory: https://todon.eu/@rheinze

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rheinze, to geography German
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In the reporting from the heat crisis in , I haven’t yet seen texts about the role the environment itself plays in it, despite the city being notorious for its steep inequality in terms of air pollution, heat and distribution of green spaces. Has anyone come across any such texts, preferably urbanist ones?
@sociology
@geography

rheinze,
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@stefanlaser @sociology @geography thanks!

inquiline, to random
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While I myself might not agree with everything student protesters choose to do, I find a certain genre of handwringing about their (not centralized/top-down) choices quite tiresome. If only demands could be expressed sufficiently moderately, then they'd really succeed! 🥱

rheinze,
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@inquiline I hate this so much, I am currently having to defend myself in discussions with colleagues because I signed a statement arguing that as professors, we should stand in solidarity with student protesters subjected to police violence. Even a liberal-conservative history professor (who is very much on the other side of the protests in many of the debates around antisemitism and Israel) came down to help the students negotiate with police and has now criticised the cops sharply

rheinze,
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@inquiline If we’re at the point where we abandon our duties as educators because we don’t like the form and/or some of the content of the protests (drawing an obvious line at antisemitic incidences which did happen, but perpetrators are unclear) I don’t know what to do anymore.

rheinze, to mastodon German
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I'm late to the party, but this, from @inquiline, is a brilliant autoethnographic exploration of how works from a user's perspective:
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

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Need to lighten my load after the week, but this doesn't really help. Also it's only Tuesday. Nonetheless

Jean Dubuffet. Donkey and Cart. 1955

rheinze,
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@inquiline thanks, I might use this for a slide on Edgerton :D

rheinze,
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@inquiline 😂 great alternative title for your asstodon piece

rheinze, to repair German
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There seems to be strange avoidance of conflict in and studies. Use, maintenance and repair are presented as a relationship of care, the fragility of the material and the is emphasized etc.

But then Denis and Pontille, for example, take the people who remove graffiti as "maintainers" and don't talk about what graffiti means? What conflicts it and its removal) entails about public space?

istuetzle, to random German
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Kennt wer ein gutes Buch zu computers, den vielen (Schwarzen) Frauen, die als Rechnerinnen arbeiten?

rheinze,
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@istuetzle not exactly sure how to understand the question (working as computers in what sense?) but this is probably a good start:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality/

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    rheinze,
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    @inquiline @HigherEdLabor @academicchatter funny, we just had a consultant in the house

    rheinze, to random German
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    We've moved the deadline to 20th January! Come and take part in our Summer University on Mobility in Africa:

    https://www.dhi-paris.fr/aktuelles/detailseite/news/detail/News/call-for-papers-mobilitaet-in-der-geschichte-afrikas-neue-zugaenge-zum-mobility-turn.html

    rheinze, to random German
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    No value in humanities

    rheinze, to random German
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    Sometimes I’m just proud to be part of this profession. Historians and archivists have the receipts on - also whatever one can say about the US, the fact that they can force the government to release such files should be emulated in other countries:

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissinger/2023-11-29/henry-kissinger-declassified-obituary-0?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ddc144de-5acb-4bf7-ac3d-b3f8245b803c

    rheinze, to random German
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    Did they catch him with a few Christians?

    https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/12/europe/circus-lion-captured-loose-italy-intl/index.html

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    Did someone on here say they were thinking or reading about a connection btwn the "user turn" in STS and neoliberalism, or did I hallucinate that? @sts

    rheinze,
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    @inquiline I’d be interested in that! Thinking a little about it myself

    rheinze,
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    @inquiline not that I recall, I haven’t really consistently thought about it (except a few years ago when I engaged a little with the “producers” concept in media studies. But I think that’s different) Edgerton is pretty Marxist though, I wonder if he ever engaged with what came after his book

    rheinze, (edited ) to random
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    Question since I haven’t heard about him in a long time but have been thinking about him: who here has read Galloways „Protocol“ and do you think it could be worth a reread as we discuss decentralisation? @sts

    rheinze,
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    @inquiline I read it at the time and found it a sometimes interesting, sometimes confusing mix of tech critique and postmodern philosophy; I thought tough it was all a little vague he had some points, but I wonder how it all holds up today as an early critique of an internet before social media

    rheinze,
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    @inquiline I think he wrote a few things about video games. I remember using a text of his about Civ, but in combination with a critique. IIRC he tends to be a bit too ontological, ignoring what doesn’t fit his thesis

    rheinze,
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    @inquiline same here, media sociology > media ontology always. But I’ll let you know if I find sth useful

    rheinze, to random
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    This is such an important oral history of feminist abortion solidarity, I am angry that this was part of such a shittily curated exhibition

    Her testimony, unfortunately can’t be read by screenreaders

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    rheinze,
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    @todzi @histodons Jairus Banaji, A History of Commercial Capitalism

    rheinze, to histodons
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    Another one for @histodons of technology: Alfred Sohn-Rethel describing technology use in Naples in the 1920s, talking about „shock of the old“, repair, reuse, maintenance under the great title „the ideal of the Broken“

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    OK weird question: What’s the proper term for a book that’s in the form of a graphic novel but isn’t a novel? I’m thinking both of things like the Oxford graphic histories (Abina and the Important Men, Great Hanoi Rat Hunt, etc.) and non-novel narratives like Persepolis.

    I work so hard to get students to grok that not all books are novels, and then I wind up calling things that aren’t novels ‘graphic novels’.

    rheinze,
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    @tkinias comic book

    rheinze,
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    @tkinias hm, this might be a cultural thing (USians call the superhero magazines comic books, right?). In French, it’s all “bédé” (Bande dessinée), in German just comics. I always thought of “graphic novel” as a marketing gimmick to sell comics to adults. Have you looked in Scott McCloud? He’s usually helpful regarding such questions iirc

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