Digital humanities, infrastructure, events, humanistic knowledge in action. Spring 2025: Workshop Critical-Connective Tissue and Humane Infrastructures book.
Program posted for day 1 of "Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities", June 27-28. Amazing group of participants (Erin Cory, Sverker Sörlin, Marisa Parham, Natalie Jeremijenko, Adam Nocek, Nishant Shah etc.) Really looking forward. critical-connective.com/june…
Workshop "Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities" at Malmö University June 27-28 (3 weeks from now). Please sign up! Information/registration: critical-connective.com/june…. Participants include Sverker Sörlin, Adam Nocek, Marisa Parham & Natalie Jeremijenko.
This is playful behaviour. At first the rat
was just startled but since the guy
jumped , it took it's making fun of him.
Rats have a sense of humour. They are social animal and have been observed to tease one another.
The Faculty of Information @UofT offers fully funded PhD student positions to study w/ Prof. @mattratto on design for new models of healthcare, social knowledge and AI in libraries, critical making, social theory and computing, & STS. Deadline Dec. 1: ischool.utoronto.ca/phd-in-i…
So a compelling meta-narrative about climate action would be really useful - especially when the energy transition is facing project financing and political challenges.
But "climate disinformation" is not the way forward.
for more on the alternatives: jacobin.com/2024/08/climate-…
We're hiring an Enviro Studies TT at Trent! The prospective fields of expertise are very broad. We've got a nice union and are a very ecumenical bunch! I'm not on the committee and am happy to chat about life at Trent if anyone's curious.
universityaffairs.ca/search-…
I appreciate this short essay by Rebecca Solnit on the slowness of some changes.
It's very germane to academic transformation:
lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-sl…
Finally got a print copy of our book! It is very cute and I like it.
ALT Two copies of the book Digital Energetics. It's a small square-ish paperback with a cover image of a pipe letting out a huge plume of steam in a steaming desolate landscape (it's Greenland).
We are thrilled to welcome Professor @BarbaraRansby to #UCLA on February 8th! As part of the 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing, she will speak to the shared terrain between university-based scholarship and movement-based work. RSVP>> challengeinequality.luskin.u…