Jessica Madison Pískatá
@lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College|she/they Rocks, poetry, the uncanny, reality TV, ghosts.
There is no Hell strong enough to hold Yeobie down.
Menswear influencers telling people to only buy European cashmere
Hey Anthros! Looking for a panel at #AAA2025Nola? Interested in spectral ecologies beyond the metaphorical? Submit your abstracts to jmadison@oberlin.edu and zsuhaimi@ucsc.edu. Discussant Deirdre de la Cruz. Panel abstract in replies:
Academics be normal about people having or not having kids challenge
Hi Boston-area friends! I’ll be at MIT anthro on 4/22 talking about Mongolian eco-horror for their Living Climate Futures lab. Come on down, I’d love to see you there.
“I sit despairing. You sit despairing. When we are sad together Night falls.”
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
While I don’t like being called “y’all” by the New York Times I AM loving this fish mug
It is eerie to be preparing for print the memoir and poems of Vernon Duke—who, like so many artistic émigrés in the mid-20th century, found peace in the Palisades—as his beloved neighborhood is wiped away.
Today, the Parliament of Mongolia - Ikh Khural, approved the draft Investment Agreement with the French nuclear giant Orano to develop a $1.65 bln Zuuvch Ovoo mine. Soon the IA will be signed. My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance. www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...
A nuclear deal to tip the scale?
With the Franco-Mongolian uranium deal due to be decided, there is a growing unease over the elephant in the room – Russia
ips-journal.eu
Good idea/bad idea? Watching “Nightbitch” while 3 weeks post-partum.
Happy Altai Band jingle bells day to all of us m.youtube.com/watch?si=gdd...
The Altai band - Jingle Bells (mongolian version)
YouTube video by musicagencymn
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Wrote a short piece on the Shambala Energy Center in the Mongolian Gobi for @religionssrc.bsky.social Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️
Evan Berry@ecothought.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social. In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation. intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
Current contributors include Evan Berry, Terra Rowe, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social, Mario Orospe, and @dominicboyer.bsky.social. Our final essay by Judith Brunton, will be published soon.
I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social. In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation. intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
Climate Futures
This topic focuses on two key questions: what is the relationship between religion and climate change? And what kinds of alternative climate futures can we imagine through the lens of religion?
intersections.ssrc.org
Excuse me???? Pirate?? Somebody come shoot this new Spotify robot.
And don’t even START trying to water this down: hauntings ❌ specters ❌ traces ❌ apparitions ❌ wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍 Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Bio Anthro: Are we measuring linearly or volumetrically (or at a molecular level) Archaeologist: Was the cup meant to be half full? Ling Anth: Is it a kuhp or a ☕? Cultural Anth: How empty are we in the view of the cup? #AAA2024Tampa
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 2y agoOptimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Okay starting to recruit for a horror ethnography panel at next year’s AAA. #ghosts #aaa2024tampa
