"Jonas Hassemer's clear-eyed and thought-provoking ethnography traces the complex dynamics of language underlying refugee support work, uncovering the insidious process by which neoliberal subjectivities are crafted under precarious conditions of labor." Order your copy now ⬇️

What in the exoticization is that? (Wine was bad, too)

next read! (i wish i had the time to read it RIGHT NOW!) amazing @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social 💓🧠👀

Was sich da gestern im Regierungsviertel ereignet hat, dürfte ein denkwürdiger TV-Moment sein: Zur besten Sendezeit wird dem politischen Arm des Rechtsextremismus das Mikro gereicht, und weder Alice Weidel noch ihr Interviewer verstehen auch nur ein einziges Wort. Trotzdem machen beide unbeirrt…

I was bored out of my mind this past month, reading paper on paper polished with GenAI, devoid of personal stances, individual voices and idiosyncracies... I will definitely ask for oral presentations next time!

The return to pen and paper has been a common response to A.I. among professors, with sales of blue books rising significantly at certain universities. Some instructors are even considering oral exams. “Maybe we go all the way back to 450 B.C.,” one said.

...one more reason to shift away from whatsapp and anything meta-related

You are all invited to the Open Launch of our edited volume "Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments" – in the presence of Monica Heller. Wed. 18 June 2025 // 8.00–9.30 Toronto (UTC-4) / 14.00–15.30 Zurich (UTC+2). For info & registration: zhaw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Maledetti mostri, siate maledetti

such an important contribution. the language of AI erases all kinds of inequalities and discrimination connected to linguisitic varieties in its illusion of 'neutrality'

Das Netzwerk SprachenRechte bezieht Stellung zum neuen österreichischen Regierungsprogramm: www.sprachenrechte.at/stellungnahm... Diese kritische Stimme ist so wichtig – mehr denn je. Chapeau für das unermüdliches Engagement!

Seen -and appreciated - in Berne: "as long as you build on the patriarchy i will be feminist" By SOLANGE www.solange-theproject.com/netze/n31-mu...

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

just don't

I'm delighted to announce that my first edited volume (with Patrick Heinrich and Saana Santalahti) is available for pre-order on Multilingual Matters' website. There's a 50% discount with the code: ICJ50. Our book explores new avenues to study ideologies of communication in Japan.

📢 Bloss das nicht! Am Beispiel der österreichischen 'Deutschförderklassen' sehen wir, wie Segregation entsteht und Kinder systemisch in ihrer Bildungsentwicklung zurückgehalten werden. Mit 'Integration' und 'Förderung' hat dies rein gar nichts zu tun! www.nau.ch/news/stimmen...

...remember: the signifier is arbitrary

Das weltweit größte Anti-Musk-Bild. 🙂

Glad I got the opportunity to travel there in 2015...

so many troubling things here. it really fucks me up how these stories gloss over the very obvious labour issues around fatigue, burnout, time as causes for human shortcomings, but never think to solve those problems, reaching for problematic solutions like AI instead. how very very sad for us all.

what an apt read on the brink of fascist revivals around the globe (holding my breath for the german elections today). Gary Younge is an astute observer and analyst (even if too optimistic about the real possibility of electoral facism), also when it comes to language...

Can't spell neoliberal without AI

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Online Veranstaltung! www.rassismuskritik-bw.de/online-veran...

does anyone have tired any of the image-centred apps?

Blau-Schwarz geplatzt: FPÖ-Chef Kickl scheitert mit Regierungsbildung. www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebe...

apparently today is the international day of women and girls in science. the fact that there is a "day" says it all. or did i miss the day dedicated to boys and men...?

...when you send in a chapter on questions as microaggressions and the white reviewers just don't understand the issue...

FFS ☠️

Wenn es so einfach wäre. Ja zur Plurilingualität, unbedingt! Aber: mehr Sprachen sprechen, heisst nicht mehr verdienen. Es geht immer auch um die gewünschte Varietät (hier des Französischen) und den damit verbundenen Vorstellungen (prof. Habitus, Aussehen, Herkunft)... www.srf.ch/news/dialog/...

For people who need villains to wear shirts saying “I’m the villain,” here you go.

Finally, I received the complimentary copies of the volume co-edited with Alfonso Del Percio - so satisfying to hold it in my hands! Editing this volume in the honour of Monica Heller was quite something but all the authors worked really hard and we can all be proud of it!