RUSTlab Bochum

Join us on Thursday, Jul 24th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Mace Ojala will present his work on “Wow, PDF is such an assemblage: Let’s talk about network like, rhizomatic and unstable aspects... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2986

Unfortunately, Jeanette Pols's talk on Thursday, July 17th, has to be postponed. We hope to find an alternative date during the winter term. You will find additional resources and information on this term’s guiding theme Drawing Together here on... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2980

Join us on Thursday, Jun 26th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Maxime Le Calvé will present his work on “An Anthropology of/with Virtual Reality. Digital Ethnographic Experiments with Active... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2973

Join us on Thursday, May 22nd, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the first RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Anna Gonzalez Suero will present her work on “From Drawing to Storying: A Feminist Authoethnograhy of Artistic Identity”. This... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2953

This summer term 2025 we present to you our 13th round of RUSTlab Lectures. Come and join us for these exciting talks and discussions around this term’s guiding theme Drawing Together on four dates in the summerterm – online and on site. The... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2940

Join us on Thursday, January 30th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Paula Bialski will present her work on “Good Enoughing at Middle Tech: An Ethnography of Corporate Software Culture”. In this... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2922

Join us on Thursday, January 23th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the third RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Stefanie Büchner will present her work on “Who cares about data? Data Care Arrangements as Accomplishments in Everyday... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2920

Join us on Wednesday, December 11th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Hannah Schmedes will present her work on “Reweaving Knowledge. Feminist Interventions and Infrastructural Biases in... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2898

Comment by Mace Ojala Fabian Pittroff, a fellow RUSTlab member, presented insights from his ongoing work as an “infrastructure-ethnographer-insider” (my term) at a large conglomerate of humanities researchers. The core premise is that Humanities,... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2889

Join us this Thursday, November 14th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Fabian Pittroff will present his work on “Data Spirits: On the Fabrication of Geist in the Humanities”. Even within the... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2882

+++NEW DATE: Hannah Schmedes's Lecture had to be cancelled in October due to illness. We're looking forward to her new lecture date in December.+++ Join us on Wednesday, December 11th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=2831

Poster for the RUSTlab opening ceremony on Thursday the 13th of June. It describes the Lab. And it emphasizes that since its actual opening in 2019, we never through a party. Time to do that.

Join us on Thursday for the third RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Robert Queckenberg will present his work on "Replacing Theories? Scraping Theoretical Debates in the Digital Humanities." #sts

The lecture will be followed by the RUSTlab's opening celebration!
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Please Go Away… We’re Reading 1_Introduction The Danish verb for reading, læse, also means studying: I study anthropology = jeg læser antropologi. Similar is the Finnish “luen,” as in luen antropologiaa. On the other hand, the Fin...

What type of reader are you? We read everyday, but the literature hardly engages with the practice of reading. The @rustlab.bsky.social identifies three modes of reading: about, around and about. Read the new paper here: www.on-culture.org/journal/pers...

Lecture by Femke Snelting on “Counter Cloud Imaginaries”.

Join us this Thursday, February 1st, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture on “Counter Cloud Imaginaries”.

rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-by-f...

A narrow underground tunnel with pipes on the left and arrays of cables on the right. It's all grey down there, with bright lines coming from above.

Our #sts lab in Bochum is soon moving on campus.

More to follow. A lovely new home for our lab. An event. And independent, open, POSSE-style blogging on top.

Here's a snapshot from a recent underground trip we did. This is very close to our new home. As seen from below.