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Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)
Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?
🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Transforming Night -
2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"
most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can
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Do you research and write in any of these areas?
- Cities and Outskirts
- Waste Futures
- Time & Temporalities
- Space
- Art and Research Creation
- Energy and Climate Change
- Settlers and Colonialisms
- Monuments and Ruins
- Cultures and CitizenshipWe’re looking for article ideas for our section in the Oxford Intersection on Cultures of Waste.
Learn more about the Call for Papers and how you can submit:
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Der Abfall, der Schmutz des Systems – Mary Douglas ruft an: Soziale Systeme entledigen sich Menschen, Dingen und Plätzen, die tatsächlich oder potenziell eine Gefahr darstellen, die eine gewünschte Ordnung infragestellen.
Darum geht es der #CDU und #Merz. Von Obdachlosen bis PoCs. #DiscardStudies
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You can thank Warwick Anderson for this passage (...) about uncanny turds (Spectacles of Waste, ch 4)
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New book for nerds of waste (such as myself). Free, open access at the link:
https://academic.oup.com/book/59620
Corvellec, Hervé, ed. 2025. Waste as a Critique. 1st ed. Oxford University PressOxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198907077.001.0001.
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LA fires aftermath: where will all the toxic fire debris go
"The #EPA continues evading questions about where the most dangerous material will ultimately end up"
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/02/fire-debris-landfill-local-los-angeles/
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Very interesting. I wonder which ports export the most used vehicles 👀
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/second-hand-cars-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/#WarOnCars #shipping #energy #pollution #DiscardStudies #PostUse
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During the 1st episode of our Greening the Internet series @laurenebridges discusses the work of @joshlepawsky and how the field of #DiscardStudies has deeply shaped our project's methodology, as well as its globally collaborative spirit. @AnnenbergPenn @ISOC_Foundation
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Samantha's book Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States is essential reading for #AmericaRecyclesDay #DiscardStudies https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262525244/recycling-reconsidered/
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#Introduction. Hi, all. Me: #academictwitter #envhist #discardstudies #envhum #histtech #envirotech. My books, research foci & more: https://carlzimring.com
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And a little introduction-by-hashtag for me, since it's been a while and there's lots of new folks around:
#phdstudent #barcelona #sts #interactiondesign #digitalontology #mediart #digitalart #designresearch #discardstudies #digitalwaste #experimentalmusic #soundart #vr #xr #spatialaudio #socialism #environmentalism #ecology
(y por cierto, aquí se habla español también)
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"Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing:" Our reflection on European #STS conferencing via #train is published in the EASST review. This is an intervention to think about less energy-intensive #mobility forms for conferences. #transition #flyingless
#Trains have potential. Yet we inquire what's possible for whom. @sociology #discardstudies
This text is a collective endeavor. I'm happy to be part of a diverse crowd of authors with different routes and experiences.
🔗https://www.easst.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/review_2022_10.pdf