Chakad Ojani
@chakadojani.bsky.social
Anthropology of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | http://chakadojani.com
Another reminder that, amidst the myriad challenges facing academia, researchers also have to re-imagine the political economy of publishing. The biggest academic publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc) are also among the most restrictive and rapacious.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3w ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
How do #extraplanetary relations shape #terrestrial life? 👀 Chakad Ojani on an #STS approach to cosmic relations: https://doi.org/hcbzct #OuterSpace #Infrastructure Art: Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766.
🟡Just Out! New Article “The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru ☁️ By Chakad Ojani 😶🌫️ Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2641938 #Aesthetics #FogCapture #Infrastructure #Mimicry #Peru #Projects #Tapuya9 #OpenAccess
How should we understand the role of extraplanetary processes in shaping terrestrial relations and modes of sociality? Find out in my latest piece, "Un-Earthing STS: The Topological Quality of Cosmic Relations," now published open access in @estsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.17351/est...
How should we understand the role of extraplanetary processes in shaping terrestrial relations and modes of sociality? Find out in my latest piece, "Un-Earthing STS: The Topological Quality of Cosmic Relations," now published open access in @estsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.17351/est...
The American Anthropological Association has put out a very clear statement in response to a new report claiming the humanities and social sciences are ruining themselves with left-wing bias. Would be good to see more such robust responses to these familiar yet deeply unhelpful accusations
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 3mo agoSetting the Record Straight on Anthropology @americananthro.bsky.social on the Vanderbilt Report...Yes. And still more to come... americananthro.org/advocacy-sta...
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
Sa BD autobiographique, « Persepolis » (L’Association), l’a révélée au monde entier. Elle est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », ont écrit ses proches dans un communiqué.
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What should we do when our object of study does not seem to exist? Find out in my latest article on "non-projects" in Peru ⬇️
Chakad Ojani@chakadojani.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnother of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
What should we do when our object of study does not seem to exist? Find out in my latest article on "non-projects" in Peru ⬇️
Chakad Ojani@chakadojani.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnother of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru @tapuya.org @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Peru www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Another of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru
In this article, I focus on how the members of a Peruvian NGO – specializing in the implementation of fog catchers – mobilized the notion of “the project” to pursue their goals. While the fog catch...
doi.org
Another of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru
In this article, I focus on how the members of a Peruvian NGO – specializing in the implementation of fog catchers – mobilized the notion of “the project” to pursue their goals. While the fog catch...
doi.org
Doesn't get more dystopian than this. "One Netflix subscription, please -- and throw in the annual sunlight plan too. Cheers!" darksky.org/news/orbital...
Sunlight on demand
As long as Earth has spun on its axis in orbit around the sun, the planet has known night. Each day, half the world slips into shadow, creating the natural…
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Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)
My latest piece on contemporary space endeavors is out now in Current History! doi.org/10.1525/curh...
In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
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In our new Global Trends issue, @chakadojani.bsky.social explores how the new commercialized space economy is posing complications both in orbit and on the ground in places like Sweden, where space activity reinforces colonial legacies in land use.
In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
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My latest piece on contemporary space endeavors is out now in Current History! doi.org/10.1525/curh...
In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
doi.org
Also in our new Global Trends issue: @chakadojani.bsky.social on the new space economy, @allouche1.bsky.social y.social on the specter of water wars, Mathias Thaler on climate pessimism, and Thomas Barfield on the history of world orders. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
Volume 125 Issue 867 | Current History | University of California Press
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Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3) doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...
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Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3) doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...
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Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)
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Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)
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