#imaginaries — Public Fediverse posts

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control."

"Critical to historical and ongoing carbon lock-in has been the pervasive failure in industrial, modern societies to imagine desirable ways of living that are neither wedded to the carbon economy nor dependent on narratives of progress reliant on perpetual economic growth."
"With technocratic forms of modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and forecasting at the core of most governmental and industrial imaginaries, the future continues to be framed as open to exploitation."
"Typically, they transfer energy consumption from fossil fuels to other energy sources, are subject to political tropes (such as interpreting energy as a national security concern), and frame the future as a focus for cost-benefit analysis and rational decision-making."

Isak Stoddard, Kevin Anderson, Stuart Capstick, Wim Carton, Joanna Depledge, et al. (2021). "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

#imaginaries #beliefs #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation

I am starting to unroll a yarn on imaginaries: growth versus care 🧶

#imaginaries #beliefs #progress #polycrisis #commoditization #commodification #faith #hope #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #emissions #ecologicalTransition #transition #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation #ecofeminism #technoCriticism #technique #development #sustainableDevelopment #hegemony #mindsets #ideologies #collectiveSafety #desire #narratives #growth #modeling #modelling #forecasting #exploitation #extraction #civilization #tech #technology #domination #philosophy #criticalThinking #resources #commodities #acceleration #criticalTheory #digitalization #engineers #separation #exploration #discovery #degrowth #growth

The Call for Papers for our next DiscourseNet Congress in Marburg is now open until October 31, 2026.

Discursive Imaginaries of Change - Heterotopias, Power, Knowledge, and the “Great Transformation”

19–21 July 2027 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

You can find all necessary information here: https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC2027 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Discourse #Imaginaries #Power #Heterotopias #Change

#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS

❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?

❓ Which novel #ideological positions have emerged around the specific #affordances and #dilemmas of AI?

📣 We are looking for submissions for a Special Section of the International Journal of Communication addressing questions like these:

https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-2/

Esta tarde, o Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond” promove uma conversa aberta entre Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (IHC) e Marçal de Menezes Paredes (PUCRS).

Todas e todos são bem-vindos!

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sobre-imaginarios/

#Histodons #AntiColonialism #PostColonialism #Lusotopy #Imaginaries #AntiColonialismo #PósColonialismo #Imaginários

O Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond” promove uma conversa aberta entre Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (IHC) e Marçal de Menezes Paredes (PUCRS) em torno de um tema fundamental das suas reflexões: os Imaginários.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sobre-imaginarios/

#Histodons #AntiColonialism #PostColonialism #Lusotopy #Imaginaries #AntiColonialismo #PósColonialismo #Imaginários

In Marronage Lies the Search of a World

by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316

#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice

Special thanks go to my co-authors for the constructive collaboration and their crucial contributions to the paper, to the editorial team at Emerging Media: Technology, Industry and Society for their efficient handling of the manuscript, and to Shanghai Jiao Tong University for supporting the open access publishing of the article.

#imaginaries #sociotechnicalimaginaries #artificialintelligence #healthcare #newsmedia

@germany: "The only substantive difference in the opposition pitting the political parties who are seen as capable of contributing to governance and those who are deemed inadmissible (i.e. the AfD) is that the former believe that it is acceptable to ethnically cleanse and settler colonise in Palestine, whereas the latter is of the opinion that ethnic cleansing should be performed at home too. A defense of the right to colonise across the seas is seen by mainstream opinion as crucial to maintaining political coherence, whereas the AfD is unwilling to abide by the classic colonial distinction separating colony and metropole. It is an uncanny predicament: both sides are thinking about colonialism, one implicitly proclaiming its admissibility somewhere, the other its desirability everywhere. And yet neither is referring to it."

Lorenzo Veracini: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2024.2397261#d1e387 🧶

#imaginaries #redemption #atonement #decolonization #decolonial #Reconciliation #AfD #NeverAgain #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #DEPol

My #ActionResearch project in collaboration with Skellefteå municipality in the north of Sweden inspired me to explore the context and specificity of mobility systems in #WinterCities. In this article we share and reflect on expert-based and context-driven #Imaginaries of sustainable mobility in the North👇
https://viablecities.medium.com/6b3d5cbacb5a

As promised, this week's #FollowFriday list are my favorite #NoNukes / #NoWar accounts. Follow them if you want news about #Fukushima, #NuclearDisarmament, and other #Nuclear news!

@123456Moto
(My lifeline here on Mastodon. Posts Leilani Athenaire’s tweets and news from #Japan)

@SZKN29
Illustrator, picture book author, care worker. Mainly covers Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture on foot. A total of 410 km was covered. Tokyo Shimbun "Drawing Invisible Radioactivity"

@youranonriots
(Has timely #Fukushima posts!)
In the name of all #digital warriors, we warriors promise to participate in the #Anonymous.CC3 #HackThePlanet #AnonOps #infosec #Antifa

@brianpjcronin
(Covers #IndianPoint and #Holtec)
#Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. I also teach journalism at Marist College. Not actually a cat.

@ausgestrahlt
#Atomkraft? Nein Danke! Wir streiten für eine Welt ohne #Atomenergie.
Nuclear power? No thank you! We are fighting for a world without nuclear energy.

@AntiAtomNetzTrier
We, #AntiAtom #AntiAKW moving people from #Trier and the surrounding area, are committed to the decommissioning of all nuclear plants and an ecological #Energiewende (decentralized and democratic, i.e. in the hands of citizens!). We oppose the French repository project #Bure in Lorraine with the resistance house #BureZoneLibre and for the closure of the #AKW #Cattenom. In addition, we support the switch to #Ökostrom|providers without #Atom or #Kohle|corporations as well as to corresponding banks.

@bojacobs
Nuclear historian at the #Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of #fallout #radionuclides; the legacy of our #NuclearWaste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
#histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace

@CNDuk
The Campaign for Nuclear #Disarmament. Find out more: cnduk.org #CND

@nukes_of_hazard
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Working to limit & eventually eliminate the nuclear threat through Congressional & public outreach.

@AtomicAnalyst
Editor and co-author, "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940" • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. I write primarily about nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons history and policy, and the nuclear "Football."

@Achim
Energy historian, with a focus on Soviet and Russian nuclear programmes. PhD candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

@RosannaFarboel
PhD in History, Researcher at Lund University
Interests: #coldwarhistory #nuclearculture #nuclearhistory #nuclearhumanities #mediahistory #urbanhistory #memorystudies #historyofscienceandtechnology #digitalhistory #architecture #ruins #shelters #imaginaries #environmentalhistory #transnationalhistory

@armscontrolnow
(bot)
The Arms Control Association, founded in 1971, is a nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.

@joshuafrank
Journalist. Montana kid. Editor at #CounterPunch.org. #𝘼𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨, published by Haymarket Books, out now!

@ChristinaMacpherson
Long term anti-nuclear activist (and long time friend!)

@fukumeltdowns
#Fukushima #ELE #ClimateEmergency #NuclearCrimes ☢Stay UN-TUNA-ED! #Wigner
#RadBrain #NoMoreWars #NoNukes #AllTheSpentFuelPoolsAreCracked
#OpShutDownAllNukesNow

#hola, soy Fernando de Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

estoy usando #mastodon y me sugieren que me presente haciendo una
#introduccion dando a conocer mis intereses: #filosofia, #literatura #musica #escrituracreativa #cine #posverdad #fakenews #artes #ciencia #cultura #derechoshumanos #imaginarios #antropologia #sociologia #mitos #introduction #philosophy #literature #cinema #creativewriting #imaginaries #anthropology #sociology #myths #arts #humanrights

saludos, terrícolas.

(5) How explore ideas without idealism? A motley mix of concepts, possibly, but I find #frameworks to complement #ideologies and #imaginaries, esp. so that we might interrogate our own (scholarly) imaginaries/ideological attractors.

(3) How explore ideas without idealism? Though #imaginaries are rich, I suggest the somewhat out of fashion concept of #ideologies as complementary.

(2) How explore ideas without idealism? One current scholarly answer is #imaginaries. Here are trends in three approaches...the two closer to my use way at bottom :-(.

We all need some #Sociotechnical #Imaginaries to thonk of a better life together-
“Jasanoff defines sociotechnical imaginaries as ‘collectively held, institutionally stabilised, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable through, and supportive of, advances in science and technology’ (Jasanoff 2015, 4). “
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902

Happy to share that my article ‘European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control’ has just been published by @Geopolitics (and it's open access!)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902
A short summary:

My paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical #imaginaries of 3 European #cloud projects reveal a performative coupling of #innovation and political ideas of control, #territoriality and #sovereignty. I analyse how Microsoft’s cloud, Bundescloud and #GaiaX …

Some relevant hashtags for this new position: #expertise, #knowledge, #STS, #professions, #culture, #AI, #automation, #technology, #digitalization, #theorizing, #QualitativeMethods, #education, #healthcare, #imaginaries, #narratives, #discretion, #commodon, #Medsoc, #Sociology #ethnography, #standardization, #identity, #interactionism

Moore's Law: The processing power of the computer doubles every 18 months.

Al Gore's Law: Myths about the Internet double in their distance from reality every 18 months.

From Vincent Mosco (2004): The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace

#STS #commodon #Cultural Sociology #Imaginaries #DigitalSociology