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Balkan post-soc doing critical digital studies

Joined July 2012
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Young victim of Israel’s pager attack tells Iraqi TV “I was playing on my phone at home. I heard the pager ring, I didn't know that sound. I grabbed it, and I barely had time to press OK before it exploded” When Biden officials make pager jokes, this is what they’re laughing at:
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Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers. Feat. Ana Valdivia at @oiioxford buff.ly/4fXKlw5
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Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybersyn project as a means to counter neoliberal capitalist realism and expand economic imagination. By @lukemunn & @liam_magee buff.ly/4fSSwt8
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Y'all write about them creating "superintelligent" machines when they can't even have speech transcription tools that don't randomly add things. apnews.com/article/ai-artifi…
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The Angel of History had friends. Paul Klee made these hand puppets for his son, Felix, between 1916 and 1924, WWI and it’s aftermath.
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🎉 Launching online today: "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500." Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net/
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Nearly 50 years after it was made, a pristinely restored Manthan, India’s first crowdsourced film received a red-carpet world premiere at Cannes alongside classics from Godard and Kurosawa. This is the story of its 4K restoration. #cannes2024 bbc.com/news/world-asia-indi…
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Four days left to apply for the first @EASAinfo summer school in ethnography ‼️
𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗡𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗖 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 💫 The first ever EASA #PhD summer school 📅 July 17-22, 2024 📌 Barcelona #EASA2024 Venue: @UOCuniversity ⏰ Please apply before May 17, 2024! More info ⤵️ buff.ly/3TFVozZ
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Read eight contributions from regional experts across the world to get a sense of national narratives and geopolitical ambitions that drive the current state-of-play. An executive summary of key themes across these regions is HERE: ainowinstitute.org/general/a… 6/6
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'Algorithmic violence : Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of bullying in academia' an article on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/document?vid…
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NOW OUT: new special issue of WOLG on #work in the #PostpandemicUniversity eds @TsvetHr & @Ursulahuws - @Aline_Courtois & I have a paper on #EdTech #outsourcing #casualisation of #academiclabour & we're in a good company @HallyMk1 P.Stewart @DrHMConnolly wolg.wordpress.com/archives/…
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Why I Resigned from the Anthropocene Working Group Today. anthroecology.org/why-i-resi…
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I’ve been thinking a about what it means to open up the university to displaced students, and why people want to close it down. @ceu the university where I did my MA (09), PhD (16) and worked for 6 years just shut a refugee education initiative — a short 🧵
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CEU students doing the university proud
OLIve's demands of the @ceu Senior Leadership Team are simple and clear. Protest tomorrow (Fri. Feb 10) @ 12:30. If you can't bang your pots with us on campus, do it online! Spread the word! #highereducation @OpenSociety #AcademicTwitter
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Universities have been forced to open their doors to students from marginalized communities, but the routines of university life are still exclusionary. How do disadvantaged students navigate inequality in this context? I try to answer this question here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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“As our understanding of life on Earth becomes more sophisticated, our chance of finding it elsewhere improves too,” @pjmaughan writes noemamag.com/searching-earth…
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Why was #RefatSyuleyman sent to clean a slag pool at #Thyssenkrupp premises by the subcontractor #Eleman on his 2nd day of work and without undergoing any safety training? Why was he left unattended by his supervisors? We demand answers!
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Tsvetelina Hristova retweeted
Excited to have received this new book by @phil_lottholz published by @BrisUniPress’ great ‘spaces of peace, secirity and development’ series edites by @HeathershawJ @spaceforpeace , jana honke and shahar hameri. Well done Philipp!
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