The air quality in Berlin and actually all the eastern parts of Germany has been consistently bad for a couple of weeks now. Yet there is virtually no reporting in the media about this. Why is that?
luftdaten.berlin.de/lqi
aqicn.org/here/
@phaidros.bsky.social
Philosopher & media and culture scholar. Working on affective media and psychotechnologies in the broadest sense. Privatdozent at University of Potsdam. Currently fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (RWTH Aachen).
The air quality in Berlin and actually all the eastern parts of Germany has been consistently bad for a couple of weeks now. Yet there is virtually no reporting in the media about this. Why is that?
luftdaten.berlin.de/lqi
aqicn.org/here/
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ICYMI
The deadline for this call is 28 February.
Herzliche Gratulation, bin wirklich gespannt darauf!
06.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kunstpalast Dǔsseldorf, Das fünfte Element
16.01.2026 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Alle Schriften von Rosa Luxemburg als Open Access!
Bei
@karldietzberlin.bsky.social
rosaluxemburgwerke.de/buecher
Tolle Sache!
Lesen lohnt sich!
#luxemburg
Shaftesbury is the most rewarding source for thinking about enthusiasm in modernity, alas largely forgotten nowadays...
09.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel the same in regard to ENTHUSIASM which is much more than mere euphoria.
09.01.2026 10:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
Thank you!
28.12.2025 02:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out now: Almost 70 years after the first German edition, Günther Anders' masterpiece ›Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen‹ is finally available in English 👇 upress.umn.edu/978151791265...
Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague Chris – you did a fantastic job!
«Critical thinking is not the sole attribute of literature and philosophy departments. Instead, it is embedded in science, engineering and other hardcore technical disciplines, where logic and problem-solving are non-negotiable.»
No, critical thinking is not «problem-solving».
It's problematization
#a-haydn-a-day
Very much recommended for bleak autumn days!
cool book, cool press
www.wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-new-fasc...
Wir denken gerade über Synchronisierung als einen Leitbegriff nach - es wird dazu jedenfalls in ein paar Wochen einen Call geben, der auch über die GfM-Liste verschickt wird.
21.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎉 Neu erschienen:
www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...
Wir ziehen darin eine Linie von der Psychotechnik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zu den algorithmischen Psychotechnologien der Gegenwart.
Wir danken unseren Beiträger·innen und dem Campus Verlag für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
As a one-sentence response to the “promise” of generative AI, this may never be topped.
19.07.2025 23:15 — 👍 68 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0Totenpost ist allerdings ein Highlight
20.07.2025 11:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dieses Buch wird auffällig intensiv beworben, vor allem die englische Fassung. Cui bono?
25.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is not news to many of us, but nonetheless a confirmation of the anti-constitutional and racist views held by the electorate.
21% voted for AfD in the parliamentary elections in Feb.
AfD is currently polling ahead of the conservative Christian Democrats.
Gift link.
I listen to this recording a lot these days. It’s pretty fantastic tbh
24.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"It is not about whether such technology will be good or bad for society... those who control the production and use of information technology will shape it in ways that are good for some and destructive for others" (Mosco, 1982, p. 8)
29.03.2025 20:39 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The arrest of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, a greencard holder, without due process is a structure test to see what they can get away with. If his deportation holds, we will see the mass dissappearing of dissenting voices. Freedom for Mahmoud and eternal shame on the enablers shorturl.at/fMiLA
12.03.2025 07:14 — 👍 64 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 3I find it baffling that Musk‘s eugenicist world view is almost completely missing from the coverage of his political actions. Why does he hate USAID & is willing to cause deaths? Because he only views certain people worthy of life and dignity. It’s not a mystery. It’s out there for all of us to see.
11.03.2025 12:28 — 👍 1742 🔁 435 💬 34 📌 13Die beste Erklärung, um zu verstehen, was gerade in den USA abgeht. Von langer Hand geplant von der Multimilliardärs-Mafia um den PayPal-Gründer Peter Thiel, Elon Musk und den von ihnen gekauften JD Vance. Nein, das ist leider kein Verschwörungsmythos.
shanealmgren.substack.com/p/democracy-...
"It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like 'women' and 'trauma,' less than three weeks in, it can’t be good."
08.03.2025 07:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...
08.03.2025 05:48 — 👍 225 🔁 107 💬 7 📌 42Es ist ein Gebot der Vorsicht sich darüber klar zu werden, in welchem Ausmaß die deutsche Rechte schon trumpifziert ist.
04.03.2025 07:17 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Stellungnahmen und Presseberichte zu den Berliner Veranstaltungen mit Francesca Albanese und Eyal Weizman:
krisol-wissenschaft.org/pressespiege...