New technologies have long been expected to solve social problems. In the 19th century, the telegraph was sold as a way to end war by reducing misunderstanding between nations. Today we are launching Techno-Optimism Archive, which collects historical press materials documenting old tech promises

New paper in @politicalgeography.bsky.social 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I show how authoritarianism not only erodes civil and political rights, but undermines the organisations designed to protect those rights and hold state and corporate actors accountable 1/3

Visiting Ngara Please like, share, follow, and reply. What do you think about this? #news https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/visiting-ngara

New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups. doi.org/10.1080/2162...

Thanks to @drxdunlap.bsky.social and @theobromin.bsky.social for the editorial input, and Human Geography for publishing

Hey #geosky kindly share this CfP for this years RGS-IBG conference 🙂 @theobromin.bsky.social and myself are hosting a session on infrastructure, the politics of deception and breaking the future! Deadline for submission is February 20!

Auch Kerem Schamberger unterstützt das Jacobin-Crowdfunding. Uns fehlen nur noch wenige Hundert Euro, um Stufe 2 zu erreichen. Hier kannst du mitmachen: jacobin.de/2.0

Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more

Our Intervention on the limitation of free speech at German Universities, based on experiences with organising pro-Palestinian events. gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

If you only read one of this trio, make it Life After Cars by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social. It’s the most accessible and informative, as well as the most practical.

Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF Deadline: October 23rd Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more! @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

American Goldfinch got at it in the sky above Seapowet Marsh in Tiverton, RI #bird #birdphotography #americangoldfinch #itsabirdeatbirdworld

Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future? In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the wake of the LA fires, many have called for mutual aid—which is necessary. But as @sarahljaffe.bsky.social writes, there are limits to what these networks can do. The challenge is to build something big enough to support a society.

And this is why, conversely, my flavor of radical anti-militarism comes in the shape of a swaggering gym bro creatine'd up to the gills.

Es ist auffällig, dass Bellizisten genau diejenigen Dinge als verteidigungswert auflisten, die drohen, durch grenzenlose Aufrüstung verdrängt zu werden.

Irgendwie ein bisschen traurig wie Ole grade zum einzigen Vertreter einer eigentlich ziemlich verbreiteten und auch relativ unspektakulären Position wird. Und auch spannend wie die Gegenseite sich da lieber an ihm als Person abarbeitet als die Position mal ernst zu nehmen

New Publication! @arnerieber.bsky.social, Eric Kioko & @theobromin.bsky.social examine how stalled infrastructure projects shape local economies & aspirations. They explore the non-economy of anticipation & infrastructural violence in the case of the Thwake Dam. 📰 ➡️ crc-trr228.de/new-publicat...

Looks interesting! As I sometimes say about large scale mining projects (& associated infrastructure), the first impact is the plan.

Rieber, A., Kioko, E. M. & Aalders, T., (2025) “The non-economy of anticipation in the construction phase of large dams”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6117. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @changetanzania.bsky.social @arnerieber.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.

New Publication! @theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects. 📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/

Keine Ausraster bei „Nius“ und Axel Springer. Kein 5-Punkte-Plan von Merz. Keine Forderung nach Gesetzesverschärfungen von Markus Söder. Kein Brennpunkt. Keine Sondersendung bei Markus Lanz. Die Tagesschau spricht von „Autofahrt“.

So, anyone wanna speculate how SPD and Greens will justify going into a coalition with Merz' CDU anyway? - "If we don't do it the AfD will" - "apart from the support from the AfD, the 5-point-plan isn't that bad in essence" - "I can fix him"

In their latest publication, our researchers @arnerieber.bsky.social & @theobromin.bsky.social alongside Kenn Munene look at how affected households navigate the state of uncertainty that is formed by threating images of displacement, in the context of the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya.

-guy gets caught jerking it in his car -blames it on asylum seekers - pure EU vibes nltimes.nl/2025/01/08/g...

Our article in Futures is finally out! It took some time, but it was a lot quicker than the dam project we researched - one that was supposed to be fast-tracked. So, why being sassy about the promise of the dam being fast-tracked? Because it matters: shorturl.at/eq5HL @theobromin.bsky.social

Recent article in @natureandspace.bsky.social: I examine long-proposed ‘amorphous’ dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin & show how speculation & rumour are deployed strategically by differently placed actors working towards project development or demise. Open access!

My New Year's resolution was to publish an article at "Territory, Politics, Governance" about infrastructure, labour, and future making - and I'm already done! @giubresearch.bsky.social #Geosky

China approves Tibet mega dam 🤯 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) 🤯 About 70 GW of power capacity 🤯 300 trillion watt-hours (TWh) of electricity to be generated annually 🤯 2.2 Exajoule of energy. 🤯 Almost 0.4% of today's global annual energy use

This article is incredibly useful in naming a subcutaneous understanding of infrastructure projects as sites of contestation that permeates much of the literature without ever being named as such. Great contribution! #Geosky @giubresearch.bsky.social

Online first! Our new article, part of an exciting SI on unintended consequences of infrastructures in Review of Regional Research: "Political Arenas of Infrastructure Development—the Case of a Dam Project in Kenya" together with Detlef Müller-Mahn doi.org/10.1007/s100... #geosky #crc228

#mittwochsimGIUB Dec. 11, 5:15pm AK Krit Geo Bonn together with the kollektiv #orangotango and Daniel Hofinger on "Eigentum kartieren - Theorie und Praxis des #CounterMapping von 'Wem gehört Bonn?'" Where? Lecture Hall @giubresearch.bsky.social #crticalcartography #Bonn #akkritgeobonn

AI art is scabbing. AI art is a LABOR issue. youtu.be/4kSjbkM5mnU?...

Breaking: S. Korean President Yoon has been placed under travel ban - Justice Ministry

Food for thought for the weekend - Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change y @ckweatherill.bsky.social Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

It's almost like to economic injustices don't affect everyone equally.

"Ich rede von Pediküre für unsere Zehen, Zehen. Wir probieren alle unsere Klamotten an, Klamotten. Jungs lassen unsere Handys platzen, Handys. Wir lassen unsere Lieblings-CDs fallen. Wir fahren zu den Partys. Wir versuchen, ein bisschen angesäuselt zu werden." -- Elfriede Jelinek

Das muss ein Ende haben. #Gewalt #Frauen

#POLLEN24 – (Latest) Call for papers Political Arenas around Infrastructuring Africa's Future - Negotiation and Contestation in times of new growth agendas and infrastructure-led development models Abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] by end of next week #geosky

Wie würde Bild die protestierenden Bauern in einem Gegenteil-Universum nennen? - Karotten-Chaoten - Hamassentierhalter - Rüben-RAF - Taliba(uer)n - Islamisthaufen - Gülle-Gangster - Vieh-hadisten

If you haven't watched Scavengers Reign yet what are you even doing

Roads are so metaphorically rich that it is incredibly satisfying to write about them but also very difficult. This is my first magazine article ever, written together with @aprzhu.bsky.social #GeoSky #AcademicSky www.guernicamag.com/vanishing-li...

It is said that Al-Shabaab is why Kenya's largest infrastructure megaproject, in Lamu on the north coast, cannot progress. But if we see Lamu less a battlefield than a frontier—LAPSSET an echo of a colonial railway with no raison d’être—we find a different story. guernicamag.com/vanishing-li...

immer wenn ihr probleme mit eurem arbeitgeber habt solltet ihr euch fragen "was würde claus weselsky tun"

How Walter Benjamin's writing about the angel of history feels like vs. the actual painting

anyone with an abo of sz who can send me a pdf of this article? www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

antipodeonline.org/2023/11/08/v... #geosky #geography #geo

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