Matthäus Rest

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/...

Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller verliert Klage gegen Campact

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!

“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.

"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...

Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)

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

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.

Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland

newrepublic.com/article/2051...

14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten

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.

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

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

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?

YouTube video by Amsterdam Anthropologies Series – UvA Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tina Harris, Amsterdam Anthropologies Series 2024–2025

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

“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...

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

@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063

Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249

In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240

@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580

Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)

Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social

Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia

www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...

"... the world of my own language has perished"

Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.

In his contribution to @roadsides.bsky.social issue on Foodways, André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8580