Joonas S. Martikainen

@jsmartikainen.bsky.social

Political phenomenologist. Post-doc researcher with https://sites.utu.fi/agencyproject/, funded by Kone Foundation. My book _Political Poverty: Losing Faith in Democracy_ is available from Palgrave Macmillan! https://link.springer.com/book/9783031982682

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

I'm obsessed with the difference between those who devote a lot of attention to politics & those who don't (wrote a book on it). One dimension of that difference is attentional availability: some have more than others. So it makes sense attention economy grifters have to go where the hunting's good.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last mo.

She's so committed to her bit that she gave up on you as marks a long time ago. She likes Twitter because the audience for the grift is there. The Anna Delvey of journalism

Tällainen herkku tarjolla Kluuvin Rosebudissa 1.10.! Puhutaan demokratiasta ja uusista poliittisen osallistumisen muodoista tai "demokraattisista innovaatioista". Miltä demokratian tulevaisuus näyttää? Tuleeko nykyisten rinnalle uusia politiikan tekemisen muotoja? Tervetuloa ottamaan selvää!

JULISTE: "Demokratiaa ilman poliitikkoja, tulevaisuuden vaihtoehtoiset yhteiskunnallisen toimijuuden muodot. 1.10.2026 17-19, Rosebud Sivullinen, Kluuvi. Paneelikeskustelussa mukana: Veikko Eranti, Anna Kontula, Pauli Saloranta, Joonas S. Martikainen."

What would be super cool is if people stopped inventing apps and training robots to ruin our lives and instead invented a type of cat food that doesn't squirt ungodly gravy all over my wrist when I open the package it comes in.

‘The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers, the mental and physical stress … I’ve been through foster care and this is arguably worse.’ How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? @dygottlieb.bsky.social

What made law into a ‘white-collar sweatshop’ in the 1980s | Aeon Essays

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?

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"Speech is freaking messy. Once you turn messy human speech into rules that scale, nuance gets flattened. And minority communities usually pay first." From Taiwanese writer and open-source platform builder Shin Yang in new Speaking Freely interview: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Speaking Freely: Shin Yang

Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an

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Löysin vasta tämän blogin, kiinalaista julkista keskustelua käännettynä englanniksi. Sun Liping kiinalaisesta talousongelmasta: kun kulutus ei vedä eivätkä yrittäjät uskalla investoida, mikä eteen? Ainakin huolehtia, että juuri nuoret ovat töissä... www.readingthechinadream.com/sun-liping-o...

Sun Liping on the Future of China's Economy

Sun Liping, “Rethinking Some of My Ideas in the Light of the Current Situation” [1]   Introduction and Translation by David Ownby   Introduction   Sun Liping (b. 1955) was a prominent...

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Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.

Erinomainen! Tää itsekin sadattelemani mittaamisen ja arvojen suhde tulee sanotuksi hienosti. Itse tietty kysyisin oheen myös niitä "marxilaisempia" kysymyksiä siitä, että mikä näitä aina yksityiskohtaisemmaksi käyviä dystooppisia metriikoita levittää ja pitää yllä. Pitää kattoa tää The Score!

Oskari Onninen@oskarionninen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

haastattelin pelifilosofi C. Thi Nguyeniä, jolla oli jakaa ihan poikkeuksellisen kiinnostavaa thinkkailua www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sa9WkE...

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social

Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays

Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

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Kirja-arvio: Nykylukijan kannalta John Stuart Millin teoksessaan esiin nostamat teemat eivät ole menettäneet merkitystään. Pekka Väisänen arvioi John Stuart Millin uudelleen suomennetun teoksen Sosialismin hyödyt ja haitat. #politiikasta #tiedetaivas #kirja-arvio

Kirja-arvio: John Stuart Mill ja sosialismin haaste – Politiikasta

Klassikon uuden suomennoksen ja artikkelin ajankohtaisessa kokonaisuudessa kohtaavat teollisen ajan ilmiöt ja nykyajan ongelmat.

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Viime aikoina on ollut taas puhetta "osallistavasta demokratiasta", mutta konkretia jää usein uupumaan. Osuustoiminnan kehittämisen mahdollisuuksista julkisen ja yksityisen sektorin välissä puhutaan vähän, vaikka tässähän sille välimallin demokraattiselle vaikuttamiselle on konkreettinen sija.

Nyyssi.fi@nyyssifi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Entinen OP-johtaja Reijo Karhinen perää osuuskunnilta lisää yhteiskunta­vastuuta – ”Tarkoitus on tuottaa arvoa jäsenille” #nyyssifi