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Episode 12 of Law at the End of the World is out, featuring the fabulous @emilyjones.bsky.social
Bouncing off Lizβs chat with Emily,
@prof-mac.bsky.social and I talk about how academics can contribute to positive transformative change, especially within environmental law.
ππ¨ CALL FOR PAPERS π¨π
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
ποΈ 2-3 February 2026
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We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
HELIOTROPE CfP: "We invite a wide range of submissions from anyone who studies topics at the intersection of culture, media, technology, and the environment. We consider βthe environmentβ to be everything β from the molecular to outer space β i.e. not just the wilderness!"
06.10.2025 20:10 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine π΅πΈ
(π₯ Ahmed Zantac)
Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...
12.09.2025 05:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ ONLINE EVENT
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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16 Oct 6PM BST
π shorturl.at/NwJCL
Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegelβs thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for todayβs times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...
02.09.2025 18:18 β π 29 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2
Looking forward to this (assuming they let me in)!
constellations2025.weebly.com
Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Quote: βSmall island States have contributed the least to climate change, yet now face an existential threat.β
Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?
AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.
verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...
As always, important insights by Adam Shatz.
Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including
@krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social
krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/
pja-verein.de
@spore-initiative.bsky.social
spore-initiative.org/en/
Wonderful paper by Evan Boyle: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
15.08.2025 17:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the β°οΈ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."
02.08.2025 05:31 β π 81 π 23 π¬ 5 π 3
βSome donβt speak,β she told me. βThey stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.β Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Quote: βThe advisory opinion of the ICJ provides an inspiring high-water mark for the legal recognition of the right to a healthy environment. The debates about the rightβs existence, its relevance, and its importance are over.β
"A Right Foundational to Humanityβs Existence" π±
DAVID R. BOYD (@drdavidboyd.bsky.socialβ¬), former UN Special Rapporteur, on the role of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change.
verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...
A gallery of shadow astronauts Part I
'The bodies are distorted, and also cyborg: in the shadow, flesh and camera meld into one amorphous shape.'
The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the worldβs bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. βInequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisisβ @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Oh cool! Quantum AI - which is totally a real thing you guys - is going to solve climate change for us. No need to worry any more. Thanks Aramco!
28.07.2025 05:50 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Laying a Cable Deep on the Sea-bed A spread depicting a series of oceanic βsectionsβ with cable laying ships Tar protection Layers of jute and yarn If an under-sea cable is laid where there are sharp, rocky slopes, it will soon wear through and break. Before laying begins, ships go out to test the sea-bed and measure the depth of water along the route. The cable-laying ship is too big to sail in the shallow water hear the coast, so the first length is laid by a small boat anchored just off shore. One end of the cable. held up by empty barrels, is floated towards the beach, hauled ashore and connected up to the cable-house. The boat then goes alongside the big cable-layer where the other end is taken aboard. The cable-layer carries many miles of cable coiled in huge circular tanks. As it steams along, mile after mile of cable is paid out, sometimes over the bows, sometimes over the stern, and drops to the bed of the sea. The diagrams below show how the cable is made. Through the center run the copper wires which carry the current. Round them are layers of many different materials to strengthen and protect them, and to prevent the current leaking. Gutta-percha Copper wires
A spread featuring section diagrams that show what happens when a cable breaks
β¦Featuring a couple explainers about transoceanic communication cables!
16.07.2025 20:11 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 4 π 0π¨π¨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
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Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. π±πβ¨ππ jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
15.05.2025 08:51 β π 77 π 21 π¬ 7 π 3
Can't help thinking of @shannonmattern.bsky.social classic placesjournal.org/article/miss...
14.07.2025 09:03 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
