An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK
Christopher O’Neill
@blueskychris.bsky.social
Lecturer in Media at Monash University Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
📯 Nominations for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize are now open!! 🏆 A prize to celebrate the best scholarship in the region by a junior scholar. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted 💌 Self-nominations strongly encouraged
AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.
AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.
The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026
AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka. Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂↕️
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The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026
A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...
AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"
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CFP for AusSTS closes today - remember to get your signals in!! 📶 🚨 aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is open until 14 March. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sess…
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Our "Signals and Noises" #AusSTS conference is partnering with the "Signal to Noise" exhibition curated by Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Joel Stern and Emily Siddons at the NCM Melbourne! Don't miss out! CFP closes tomorrow 😱⏰
CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney & more!! Deadline 14 March
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
Excited to discuss 'the face of the child and the face of the corpse' tomorrow at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for the 'Irresistible Decay' conference! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc... (might recommend a trigger warning for the conference booklet; you can probably guess the kind of thing featured! 😅)
Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today
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Finally on day 3 there will be a keynote panel on noise within health, including Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney) @wombatscholar.bsky.social Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social (University of Bath) and Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social (Deakin). 5/
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
🚨 AusSTS2025 submissions close in 10 days! Submit a paper, present your work creatively in a poster or Making and Doing installation, pre-submit a short paper to workshop at the conference, and/ or get an STS-adjacent crew together by proposing a meet- up 👭💞
Yep, glowing walls and defunct devices will be looking on at #AusSTS2025. Day 1 is at the National Communication Museum, and we're going to use the space & stuff to think with. Infrastructures, enfolded time & space, translation, listening, silencing, senses. Get in it aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…
aussts.org
The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July Deadline for proposals: 14 March Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social
The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
The next AusSTS is so soon. Come join us in Melbourne. Cfp is live at: aussts.org/aussts-2025-... #STS
Serresians and Cageians warmly invited to corrupt our channels! #aussts2025 🪱🔕😅
AusSTS conference, Melbourne, July 9-11, 2025 - call for papers open now till March 14. Intriguing theme of signals and noise, carefully framed but surprisingly leaving out Michel Serres ... & John Cage for that matter #STS #hisstm @4sonline.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…
aussts.org
The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Thanks so much to @thaophan.bsky.social for putting together our AusSTS & friends starter pack - go.bsky.app/DR3Tptg
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I've now uploaded a open access version of a piece from last year - Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite' philarchive.org/rec/ONEETA
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡ 9 - 11 July, 2025 Melbourne/Naarm Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social Ful CFP coming soon!
Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...
A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
Big Saturday preparing my paper for next week's Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference - I'll be discussing the strange circumstances around Bernard Stiegler's first published piece, the misleadingly titled 'Questions for Jacques Derrida', and Derrida's (non)-response...