What are the keywords of Socionarratology? This week at Humboldt University Berlin, the international conference “Keywords for Socionarratology” brings together scholars from Princeton, Humboldt, EHESS Paris, FU Berlin, Harvard/TU Berlin, Lüneburg and beyond (1)

Wieso war "Habecks Heizungs-Hammer" trotz Unterstützung für Klimaschutz so unbeliebt? Und wieso ist das im Gesetz enthaltene staatliche #derisking entgegen der Annahme der politischen Ökonomie wirkungslos verpufft? Dazu entwickle ich aktuell ein Forschungsprogramm zur Soziologie der Bedrohung. 1/5

An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK

This is so on point. The worst chapter in every such book. (I've had several authors tell me that publishers basically force them to write this chapter.)

last call for this sale on books in our series Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene 👇👇👇

My review of the edited collection, Intellectual Property and Cannabis, is now online with the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice: academic.oup.com/jiplp/advanc...

No, but seriously, I cannot emphasize enough that nobody else talks like this in the whole poem, every time Zeus or Poseidon show up they're either prophesying or smiting somebody for sacrificing the wrong number of bulls, it's so clear that Athena just doesn't have anyone else to hang out with.

I’m excited to be a visiting scholar at @carsoncenter.bsky.social in Munich from June to August & then spend my sabbatical year at the HWK Institute for Advanced Study in Delmerhorst (near Bremen). Ich freue mich auf das kommende Jahr und wenn du in der Nähe bist, lass uns connecten!

OUT NOW & Open Access: „Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe“, hg. v. Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller, @hstubenrauch.bsky.social und mir: campus.de/subjekte-der.... Das Buch versammelt theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf die Klimakatastrophe ... 1/3

While cigarette sales have fallen across much of the world, China has moved in the opposite direction.” #econsky #china marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/chin...

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

I watched a Myles Allen lecture where he starts with these pictures saying "I once almost missed my Eurostar because I stood there wondering what "he8" meant". Turns out the "8" is an "s" that looks like a "8" in the original print because the ink is blotchy, which I find hilarious.

New CRYOSOCIETIES paper on umbilical cord blood biobanks and non-decisions by @afischercapote.bsky.social, Finja Filzinger & Ruzana Liburkina in Health (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Lucien Karpik fut l'un des pionniers de la sociologie économique française, fin lecteur de Karl Polanyi, auteur d'une pensée originale. Nous garderons de lui le souvenir de son érudition, de sa curiosité intellectuelle et de son sens de l'humour." www.linkedin.com/posts/sophie...

Ich hatte kürzlich die schöne Gelegenheit, mit @derlampenputzer.bsky.social und @jalenz.bsky.social ausführlich über mein Buch Kybernetik und Kritik @suhrkamp.de zu sprechen, jetzt online @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/digital/2026...

Working on a short post called "Notes on Boomer STS" on the problematic twins of a) critique of "technocracy" and b) thinking "participatory democracy" is *the* solution, but now I think my prompt that led to this beautiful image may be my greatest contribution to the field.

From: Baby in the Airport (1988), dir. Pencho Kunchev, Sofia Animation Studio & Slovenská Filmová Tvorba

Looking forward to the workshop „Plural Knowledge Cultures in Times of Crisis“ at our department at University of Marburg with @anthrobite.bsky.social, Desirée Hetzel, Ruzana Liburkina, Arne Harms and @annaw.bsky.social. www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb03/ekw/...

The draft programme is up now on our website! Our workshop format intends to foster interdisciplinary conversations: chosen papers are presented by commentators from a different discipline (or different subfield. This year it will be all the more special with our Brazilian colleagues' engagement.

this paper but for Nextdoor @gracekind.net is THIS ideonomy

in which, the unusually hot sunshine has the effect of turning me into the opposite of a ray of sunshine, and having another go at thinking about "degrowth Abundance". backofmind.substack.com/p/crazy-from...

My goal in my next post is to demonstrate that liberal effective altruists can in fact do critical theory

OH MY GOD

I watched John Wick and I discovered that labour is capital’s dead wife. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

In „Situation und Konstellation“ beklagt Hartmut Rosa das gegenwärtige „Verschwinden des Spielraums“. Rezensent Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social attestiert dem Buch fehlende Begriffsarbeit zu Großkonzepten wie Erfahrung, Urteilskraft, Energie und Spiel. www.soziopolis.de/jenaer-selbs...

Please share and send your ideas before July 1 Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built Feminist Political Ecology Workshop: Call for Papers Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice Sept 21–22, 2026 organised with @antoniamajaca.bsky.social

in which I expand on my wonderings about Google AI Search and its (non) effect on the economy backofmind.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

"Every place in the world, every particle of matter is the fennel of Prometheus, in which nature presents itself as obedient." (Hermes IV: Cloud)

We just had an @stsing.bsky.social reading group meeting with John Downer to discuss his book "Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies" (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2023) and it was really nice. It's such a good book. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254699...

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

Beim Überqueren der Straße als Gesprächsfetzen aufgeschnappt: "Aber das größte Land ist Afrika"

Good teachers don't just raise the achievement of students they teach. They also shape the teachers of tomorrow. Standard estimates of teacher impact ignore these intergenerational spillovers. Thread on new work led by @danilok.bsky.social. Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/10

Jan Overwijk (IfS): The Eccentric Commodity: Why Only Labor-Power Produces Value journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @jloverwijk.bsky.social

Herbert Simon appraising Bruno Latour as "soft, to the point of mushiness" and his work as "a sort of generalized Marxism" is quite noteworthy (albeit not that surprising considering the former's computationalist views of knowledge and the social).

never pass on the symphylan

Not so long ago, the depoliticisation of money was a widely accepted observation. Meanwhile, Trump’s attacks on CBI, militarised Sondervermögen, and the rise of Bitcoin point to repoliticisation. 1/3

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

"a chain link fence is a very challenging canvas...the result might not be very visible. A sign attached on the fence, however, immediately affords painting as a flat surface. And thus in this case a sign from the deontic sign authority is the very thing that enables a countersign to be created." 🙌🏼

uncommon view of a remarkable spider, Hypochilus the 4 white spots on the ventral abdomen are booklungs, lying just beneath the cuticle surface in most "true spiders" (araneomorphs) the posterior pair have evolved into a tracheal system, but in Hypochilus, the "primitive" condition is retained

Wrote a review of @ueberdruss.bsky.social excellent Working Nature. Go read it, it’s a book that should have been written decades ago, when the ecosocialist current was just starting to get going. Also one for all the Sohn-Rethel heads out there.

WORKING NATURE: A HISTORY OF THE ENERGY ECONOMY Book Presentation with @ueberdruss.bsky.social, comments by Liliana Doganova and Jacob Blumenfeld, moderated by Thomas Turnbull July 9, 2026, 19:00 Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, Berlin socializationproject.de/event/workin...

‘My dear Engels, please send me some money’

„Ein emphatisches, überzeugendes Plädoyer für den Stellenwert von Rezensionen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und eine sehr detaillierte Einführung in das Rezensionswesen.“ – @juergendinkel.bsky.social über Steven E. Gumps „How to Review Scholarly Books“: www.soziopolis.de/was-sie-scho...

I love that guy’s videos. This is a favourite youtu.be/3lXv3Tt4x20?...

Für Kurzentschlossene in Berlin: Am 18. Mai 2026 wird am WZB der Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen" vorgestellt. Moderiert von Leon Wansleben diskutieren die Beiträger*innen Andrea Binder, Philip Manow und Jenny Stupka ab... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30786

handsome male Habronattus americanus, from a recent trip to the far southern Sierra Nevada, on the underappreciated Kern Plateau right places, right time ... these are very common spiders

"Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower," just out in @theoryculturesociety.org journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper hand? Drawing on interviews in co-living schemes, this paper explores how residential precarity is leveraged in pursuit of tumultuous careers in the knowledge economy. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It's hard to remember now, but there was a period when boomers were seen as victims of circumstance