Veit Braun
@toteraltermann.bsky.social
Property, biology & stuff. All opinions someone else's. Out now: AT THE END OF PROPERTY @BrisUniPress.bsky.social https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/at-the-end-of-property
Six years later, the COVID-19 dashboard feels like an obvious part of the pandemic. But how did this medium come to be so central to how we engaged with the health emergency situation? That question is the starting point for my recent (OA) @sthv.bsky.social article. doi.org/10.1177/0162...
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a wonderfully cute Pika in early morning reflected light, CA Sierra Nevada this one became accustomed to me, let me get quite close look at those whiskers!
Auch mir ist an diesem Sonntag im Sommerloch langweilig, weshalb ich den zitierten Diskurs und den, auf den er Bezug nimmt, hier kurzerhand unnötig verdoppeln werde:
IfS Frankfurt@ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 6d agoIst die Soziologie zu links? Wer das behauptet [...] verkennt das eigene Fach und betreibt das Geschäft seiner Gegner. Fügt sich die wortreiche Warnung vor der weltfremden Soziologie nicht allzu nahtlos in die Ressentimentkonjunktur unserer neoautoritären Zeiten? (1/10) 🧵
Das Buch ist da! Ganz vielen Dank an unsere Autor*innen, die das möglich gemacht haben. Ich freu mich riesig, dass die schönen Beiträge pünktlich zur Semesterpause aus der Box sind! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Auch eine Ferienbeschäftigung: Sich durch die Sedimentschichten von fünf Jahrzehnten Bielefelder Fallout wühlen
Veit Braun@toteraltermann.bsky.social · 6mo agoBielefeld endlich abschalten
the paradox of thrift is one of the things that made me want to be an economist
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · last wk.I think this article is a really good explanation: slate.com/business/199...
The long, doleful story of how the University of Kent sank. Can't vouch for all the details, but apparently it took 7yrs, £29m in restructuring and £2m in consultancy to accept the inevitable: effective takeover. My view? You can delay, but not avoid, the inevitable. shepwayvox.org/2026/08/05/u...
University of Kent Financial Crisis: Cuts, Consultants and Merger with Greenwich
For six years the University of Kent cut jobs, closed subjects, sold financial breathing space and promised recovery. It spent £29.4 million restructuring itself and awarded at least £1.9 million o…
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In der Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung findet sich eine schöne Besprechung zu „Totalität“ @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social und ja, ich habe versucht, mich kurz zu fassen.. www.klostermann.de/epages/63574...
The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
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Was gibt es eigentlich an Belletristik, die sich mit Eigentumsfragen auseinandersetzt? Für den Sommer haben wir uns eine kleine Reihe mit Buchtipps unserer Kolleg*innen am SFB überlegt.
Check out the interview Santiago and I did with Hans-Peter Gruber about his biography of Felix Weil: on Argentina, marxism, revolution, the Frankfurt school, and Judaism. What a life he led! I’m jealous.
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · 2w agoNow online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Wow terrific website that outlines the brands that have undergone enshittification (quality erosion in order to maximize profits) and those that have embraced quality This is a super helpful website ledger.worseonpurpose.com
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No matter how science fiction you think EUV lithography is, it's more science fiction than than that. (Even just the free portion of this post on EUV optics is mind-blowing.) frontiermap.substack.com/p/zeiss-and-...
ZEISS and the Optics of ASML’s EUV Machines
Every ASML EUV scanner uses ZEISS illumination and projection optics to shape the beam and form the image on the wafer
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New on the @thebulwark.com homepage this morning: a wonderful, engaging review by Clare Coffey of @phoebebovy.bsky.social's The Last Straight Woman, a book that "is a pleasure to quarrel with." Tolle lege: www.thebulwark.com/p/against-he...
Against Heteropessimism
Accounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. What to do about it?
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It is perfectly possible to overdose on structure and it's anything but nice (my personal experience of the last two years) but (looking at others) it seems to me that you can just as well overdose on history and I wouldn't recommend that either
at the 'stack, I argue that it is really quite unlikely that some companies are claiming both to be on the cutting edge of AI development, and to have spare compute to rent out to their direct competitors. backofmind.substack.com/p/songs-my-p...
songs my portfolio manager taught me (part 7)
with application to hyperscaling
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Es ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
From Paisley Livingston (ed.) (1984) Disorder and Order, p. 259–260.
Four recent books of new Marx/ist scholarship on nature, politics, power and energy from the 2020s. All very good! Seems like a new wave, we can finally stop saying “Since 2008 global financial crisis” and start saying “Since 2020s total planetary chaos…”
More specifically, the law proposes to "prevent corporate seed companies from restricting farmers and researchers from breeding, experimenting with, propagating, or saving seeds, including through burdensome contracts"
Jocelyn Bosse@jocelynbos.se · 4w agoRepresentatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced a bill called the Fair Seeds for Farmers Act. The law would remove utility patent protection for plants going forward (leaving PVP and plant patents available) and prohibit certain seed contracts mcgovern.house.gov/news/documen...
The Pixar clothing ad Pinheads (1995), dir. Jan Pinkava An early Pixar experiment in dropping photorealism and using "the medium of computer graphics much more creatively, not just to reproduce reality" (according to Pinkava)