In retrospect, when Americans sincerely believed that J Lo had the biggest butt in the world, I should have known that this country would fall for anything.

Die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs ersucht um Ihre Aufmerksamkeit zum Zwecke einer tatsächlichen Berichtigung.

Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. #infrastructures #sts #anthropology www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" (Roadsides Journal)

Roadsides' Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" edited by Sophie Elixhauser, Anna-Maria Walter published in Spring 2026. This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds...

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Claudia Bauer aka das reaktionäre Aushängeschild der österreichischen Bundesregierung streicht Fördermittel für Zara - und man fragt sich: wem will diese Koalition etwas beweisen? Frauenhassern? Gewalttätern? Der FPÖ? Es ist ein Trauerspiel.

Tell the truth and get fired.

Our collection Cryosphere is coming! This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.

Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

„Die Zumutung beginnt dort, wo ein Nein als Gesprächseinstieg behandelt wird.“ Ein Must-Read von @barbarablaha.bsky.social www.moment.at/story/fall-u...

Fall Ulmen und Co: Wie sollen wir euch noch lieben?

Wie soll Liebe im Patriarchat noch möglich sein? Diese Frage stellt sich Barbara Blaha angesichts aktueller Vorwürfe sexualisierter Belästigung und Gewalt. Es gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.

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I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Tja.😁

Liebe Menschen, das hier sind die Kämpfe, auf die es ankommt 👇 Folgt @republik.ch und @adfichter.bsky.social, abonniert sie wenn ihr könnt, verbreitet ihre Artikel!

Republik Magazin@republik.ch · 6mo ago

Recherchen zum Unternehmen Palantir, die von der Republik und dem Recherche­kollektiv WAV gemacht wurden, haben internationales Medien­echo ausgelöst. Nun klagt das US-Unternehmen gegen die Republik auf Gegen­darstellung. Der Fall liegt beim Zürcher Handels­gericht.

"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

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We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)

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Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...

The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland

Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.

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14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten

Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Gerri Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.

Wiener Original Gerri Geiger ist tot

Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.

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good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 7mo ago

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Immer wieder amüsant, wie der politisch gescheiterte Sebastian Kurz allen die große Weltpolitik erklären möchte, digga du bist an St. Pölten gescheitert und willst uns jetzt Washington und Moskau erklären?

If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tina Harris, Amsterdam Anthropologies Series 2024–2025

YouTube video by Amsterdam Anthropologies Series – UvA

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Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.

Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy

The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite

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Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden. #Solidarität rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland

Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.

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Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.

Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

Roadsides@roadsides.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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