In a new article for @anthropologica.bsky.social, I explore how #transport infrastructures in northern #Manitoba 🇨🇦 shape community life & #governance. It demonstrates that #infrastructure is deeply social, political & intertwined with #climate & colonial #history. doi.org/10.18357/ant...

...and the Introduction: Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure in Canada Philipp Budka, Giuseppe Amatulli @philbu.bsky.social @gamatulli.bsky.social cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @alexandrinebf.bsky.social

Current Issue Published! Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience Thematic Section editors: Philipp Budka, Giuseppe Amatulli cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @alexandrinebf.bsky.social @philbu.bsky.social @gamatulli.bsky.social

AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Looking forward to my lecture on community #infrastructures, #sovereignty & futures in remote 🇨🇦 @ the Wednesday Seminar Series of the Dpt. of Social & Cultural #Anthropology @univie.ac.at.

How Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s #AI 30 years before ChatGPT: theconversation.com/how-the-fren...

📅 Join us this Wednesday, Nov 5, at 5 pm CET, for a lecture by #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka, on infrastructural sovereignty in remote Canadian communities. 🌐 Hybrid at Uni Wien & Zoom, no registration needed. More details on the link below! @philbu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #Infrastructure

New blog post for the Digital #Ethnography Initiative (DEI) @univie.ac.at. #Selfies Beyond the Frame: Digital Cultures in #India by Avishek Ray: digitalethnography.at/selfies-beyo...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

Otto-Wagner Areal & Church, #Vienna.

Kremlin envoy proposes "Putin-Trump #rail tunnel" to link Russia and US in the #Arctic: www.reuters.com/world/kremli...

The Ethnographic Field School @univie.ac.at - on thinking archives ethnographically - starts today! Looking forward to an engaging semester of hands-on research & exploration of archives. ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...

Trump approves #Alaska mining #road to boost copper, zinc production: apnews.com/article/alas...

A little bit of sightseeing to wrap up #DGSKA2025 in #Cologne.

Interesting exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in #Cologne, accompanying the #DGSKA2025 conference: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...

Eriko Yamasaki, Sandra Calkins, Phillip Budka & André Thiemann explore un/commoning and sustainability—from Maya maize farming 🌽 to green gentrification 🚧, Arctic infrastructure 🚂 & swine fever in Serbia 🐗. Chaired by Maike Melles & Daniel Sosna. #dgska2025

I’m really looking forward to my talk tomorrow at #DGSKA2025 (@dgska.bsky.social) in #Cologne. I’ll be speaking about #sustainability & #infrastructure in 🇨🇦, drawing on my work with @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at.

After yesterday's keynote, the GASCA/DGSKA conference @dgska.bsky.social in #Cologne continues today with its 1st plenary session. Full program: tagung.dgska.de/en/timetable/ #anthropology

Next week, four #InfraNorth researchers will present at the 2025 GASCA/DGKSA conference, on how #infrastructures sustain & transform livelihoods; epistemologies & methodologies of accompanied research; and commoning practices in the #Arctic. @philbu.bsky.social @dgska.bsky.social #Anthropology

The conference "Beyond #Infrastructure?" @univie.ac.at is followed by a workshop on #Arctic #transport futures with various stakeholders & experts from Northern #Europe & Arctic #America.

Looking forward to my presentation tomorrow @infranortherc.bsky.social conference, where I show how #transport #infrastructures enable northern #sovereignty in 🇨🇦. #Arctic #anthropology

In his keynote lecture, Alessandro Rippa takes us on a journey across the China-Burma borderlands to examine #Anthropocene landscapes as extended #infrastructure space. 🔗 infranorth.eu/beyond-infrastructure-conference/ #BeyondInfrastructure #InfraNorth @alessandrorippa.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

The @infranortherc.bsky.social conference "Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene" starts today @univie.ac.at bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines to rethink how built, unbuilt & imagined environments shape our world: infranorth.eu/beyond-infra...

Google DeepMind claims ‘historic’ #AI breakthrough in problem solving: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT-5 and the Limits of Machine Intelligence: quillette.com/2025/09/07/c...

The Pöstlingbergbahn is a historic narrow-gauge electric #railway - also known as a "mountain tramway" - located in #Linz 🇦🇹 It’s famous for scenic rides up Pöstlingberg hill.

The book "#Indigenous Currencies" by Ashley Cordes follows dynamic stories of #currency as a meaning-making communication #technology (via @castac.bsky.social): mitpress.mit.edu/978026255253...

Now that is a boat. #Kerteminde 🇩🇰

The 2025 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples calls for Inclusive, ethical, and just AI for #IndigenousPeoples. But for the last five centuries, Indigenous Peoples' land, water, bodies, minerals, and even DNA have been ravaged. Read more: cs.org/news/refusin...

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay and the 3rd anniversary of the SIRGE Coalition! Their Executive Director, Galina Angarova, talks about the cost of AI on the environment & #IndigenousPeoples' rights. #EnvironmentalJustice #UNDRIP #IndigenousRights www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYX...

Missionaries use secret #audio devices to evangelise #Brazil's isolated #Indigenous peoples (via @theguardian.com): www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Flash sale at @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! Including our volume "Theorising #Media and #Conflict" (with B. Bräuchler). A great chance to grab it at a discount! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BudkaT... #anthropology

Excited to take part in workshop "Past Tense, #Future Imperfect" @unibonn.bsky.social’s Global Heritage Lab! Organized by @naohh-easa.bsky.social & @easainfo.bsky.social's FAN network. I’ll reflect on #time, #ethnography & #infrastructure in Manitoba 🇨🇦 @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

New blog post for the Digital #Ethnography Initiative (DEI) @univie.ac.at ⬇️ "From Stars to Stories: Experimenting with Google Reviews in Ethnography": digitalethnography.at/from-stars-t...

My keynote on digital #sovereignty in remote #Canada at the International Digital #SecurityForum #Vienna is now online: youtu.be/mrAmmg1I9ao Huge thanks to the organizers: @vicesse.bsky.social & Austrian Institute of Technology @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

What are we to make of “humanitarian wearables”? Today on #Platypus, Aaron Su discusses Indigenous health, data sovereignty, and digital colonialism in Taiwan. Read this fascinating post here: blog.castac.org/2025/07/the-...

An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned

The #UN Made #AI Generated Refugees (via @404media.co): www.404media.co/the-un-made-...

Schönbrunn Desert House, #Vienna. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BC...

📢 We are excited to announce the preliminary program for the conference “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲”! 🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research. 🎫 Early bird ends July 6!

Fears grow #EU will cave on tech rules amid Trump pressure: www.politico.eu/article/grow...

Scuba made “manfish” possible—hybrid beings diving into new ocean worlds. But who gets to be a cyborg? Elexis Trinity Williams Gray dives deep with Haraway, Jue and Cousteau where tech meets race. Read the latest Platypus post here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/subm...

Several collections of login credentials reveal one of the largest #data #breaches in history: cybernews.com/security/bil...

New publication: "Framing multipolar #tourism: Imaginaries, #visualities & #futures" by J. Sinanan, @riaadams.bsky.social & myself published in Visual #Anthropology doi.org/10.1080/0894... @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @manchester.ac.uk‬

"If the #internet is a garden, #Google is the Sun that lets the flowers grow." www.bbc.com/future/artic... Monopolies, including Google, made the internet a walled, monocultured garden a long time ago...

Advanced #AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds (via @theguardian.com): www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What happens when people don’t understand how #AI works (via @theatlantic.com): www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The "Fuhrmannhaus" is the oldest surviving house in the West of #Vienna: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuhrman...

🛰️📡 Yesterday, #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka gave the keynote address for the Social Sciences Track at the #IDSF2025 Forum in Vienna! He reflected on past and current research connecting questions of #sovereignty with (digital) #infrastructure. @philbu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

The great iceberg hunt on Canada's epic new road: www.bbc.com/travel/artic... #transport #infrastructure