Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025
Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
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Ron Sexsmith has you covered in several of those categories...
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I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.
Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one
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I think it's very bad for our society that simply opposing the mass starvation of civilians is treated as a controversial stance.
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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series
The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
The Trump administration has barred a team of 15- and 16-year-olds from Venezuela from entering the United States to compete in the Little League Senior League World Series. The team from Maracaibo won the Latin America tournament to qualify for the World Series in South Carolina
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Enjoying some Honduran food in north Florida
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Research funder pivots to tackle UK’s ‘five biggest challenges’
Nuffield Foundation says it wants to generate ‘viable solutions to the key social questions facing the country’ under new strategic direction
A key funder for social policy research is shifting its strategic focus to tackle what it called the UK’s five biggest social and economic challenges, backed by a £150 million investment, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
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The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.
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FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
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enjoyed listening to this on a rainy afternoon....
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Good stuff, I used to have a couple of their records in my iTunes... Btw, Jake Xerxes Fussell will play a show in York, UK in September at the National Centre for Early Music - I got tickets and am looking forward to it!
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I'm doing this too... No CBS for me.
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One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed FEMA search and rescue by 72 hours.
Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.
Texans deserve answers.
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Looking forward to reading this (Powering the pluriverse: Possibilities and limits to decolonial energy transitions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
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Mississippi Masala (1991) starring Denzel Washington
The brilliant film Mississippi Masala by Mira Nair (Zohran Mamdani's mother) tells the story of people of Indian descent forced out of Uganda during the horrific Idi Amin dictatorship. It can be watched on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQr...
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Ever since it's been one of my favourites - esp 'Better things' - your version is great too!
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One of the first records I ever bought, at a used record store in Nashville, aged maybe 9, in about 1983...
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Another one for Canada Day RS
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G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.
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