Joshua Hurtado

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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Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.

La próxima semana participaré en la presentación del nuevo libro de Marco Estrada. Será una discusión muy relevante en torno al estudio de tres tipos de violencia que vivimos a diario en México.

📍 Librería U-tópicas
📆 9 de agosto
🕓 16:00 hrs

I am looking forward to reading it! 😀

Someone who supports my work has paid for 3 books for me to give away! I'll double that - so I have *six* to give away!!! To enter just repost & comment below. I'll announce the winners on friday (1st Aug). Please do share, thanks. 🙏🤟🍻 More info on the book here - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....

Wholebeing: Essential skills for a post-growth society Article in collaboration with Recipes for Wellbeing

Wholebeing: Essential skills for a post-growth society
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/wholebeing...
#degrowth #sufficiency #wellbeing

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Making our research dialogue with the broader scholarly literature in our academic writing www.raulpacheco.org/2025/07/maki...

I am scaffolding a series of strategies to help learners better develop their arguments, so this is one that focuses on linking our work with broader debates.

#RPVSky

Packing up office also threw up a couple of old research notebooks (and a not-insignificant number of other documents I had thought I lost). First sentence of entry dated 21 February 2020: "Neoliberalism is a technology of death".

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Socioecological Transformations | Linking Ontologies with Structures, Socioecological Transformations confronts dominant framings of transformation that either remain apolitical and ahistorical, or overemphasizes the structural

THIS IS OUT NOW: "SOCIOECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: Linking Ontologies with Structures, Personal with Collective Change". Open Access, read, share, download: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
The book features 15 chapters, weaving onto-epistemic inquiry with grounded transformative practices, movements &action

The illustration shows a woman lying in bed, wearing pyjamas and a lab coat. She is trying to make sense of data coming out of her smartwatch.

The illustration shows a woman lying in bed who is wearing a smartwatch. She is surrounded by smaller images of people lying in bed, all wearing smartwatches - there are speech bubbles containing data coming from these people, suggesting that they are speaking about their self-tracking data.

Pleased to share a new article, co-authored with @dalupton.bsky.social, just published in the journal Sociology: '"Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors": Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice'.

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I can successfully copy it and edit it! Thank you so much, this will be very helpful 😄

Climate necropolitics I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
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I would add to Prof. Sultana's comment that, after leaving for outer space, I hope those dudebros also never attempt to impose their techno-capitalist ideals on 'barren' planets and alien civilisations (if they exist). Other places should also have peace 😄

Green afterlives: green burial as an environmental land-use in settler colonial contexts Green burial can alleviate the damaging environmental effects of conventional burial practices. In settler-colonial contexts like the United States and Canada, however, it also poses the risk of fu...

Green burials: eco-friendly or colonial? Discover their impact on Indigenous land rights in BC. @jkrowe.bsky.social
and Gillian Cawron, MA student @uvic.ca vic.ca
School of Environmental Studies #uvic #greenburial #Indigenous www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Once you thought "well, once they start disappearing people-" -- these disappearances have begun.

Once you thought "well, if the heat goes beyond survivable-" -- it is killing people now, in the privileged areas of the global North.

What you thought you would do, if it came to this -- do it now.

Online.

Dynamic Coalitions: Organizational Solidarity in Practice Militant-scholar, Ana Inés Heras, writes about collaborative projects between her research team at the Argentinean Council and various self-governed local communities and groups.

These aren't isolated experiments—they're systemic transformation toward post-capitalist alternatives prioritizing wellbeing over profit.

Practical degrowth in action.

Full article: degrowth.info/en/blog/dyna...

How do you think we can we create similar coalitions in our contexts?

ASDS logo in blue. Online events series. The radical fact of death in contemporary political theory Wednesday 25 June, 18:30 BST In this presentation we will outline the main elements of what we call “the radical fact of death” in contemporary political theory, in particular in the works of Elias Canetti, Jacques Derrida and Ernest Becker. We will show that, for all of them, politics must be understood within its own immersion in the mystery of death. Tomás Speziale holds a PhD in Social Sciences, MA in Interdisciplinary Studies of Subjectivity, BA in Sociology and BA in Political Sciences. Book here: deathandsociety.org/online-events-series

Free, online #deathstudies events from ASDS.

Join us on Weds 25 June to hear from Tomás Speziale about the radical fact of death in contemporary political theory.

Register here. deathandsociety.org/etn/the-radi...

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Tim Waterman Tim Waterman delivers his inaugural professorial lecture, hosted and introduced by Jacqui Glass, Dean of The Bartlett Faculty.  Reworlding: Planetarity…

My Professorial Inaugural Lecture, "Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries" is now available to view online if you have an hour to spare! vimeo.com/1069548288

I'm afraid the lecture wasn't recorded but we'll be making a podcast with Sarah which will cover many of the same topics and ideas. We'll post here on Bluesky and our other social channels when it's released.

III International Seminar - Images of Death and Grief in Popular Media This seminar explores how death and grief are depicted across popular media, including film, television, literature, and digital platforms.

📺📽️📚💻Hear from an amazing line up of speakers, including ASDS council members and ambassadors, in this seminar exploring images of death and grief in popular media.

Next Thurs (12 June), 11:00-13:00 BST. Online and free to book.

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En México hay militares armados suspendiendo eventos culturales, desabasto de medicamentos, corrupción en las fiscalías, incontables asesinatos y desapariciones… pero dicen que debemos celebrar que la gente va a las urnas con acordeones hechos por partidos políticos porque eso es la democracia.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

A screenshot from All Will Rise. This game is in development and therefore subject to change.

Soon, we'll reveal more about All Will Rise, including how you can support us during development and get your hands on the game. Don't miss out! Follow us now, and be one of the first to join us on our journey.

#GameDev #IndieGame

Centre researcher Rachel Mazac recently published an article together with Finnish colleagues on the Planetary Plate Puzzle; a serious designed to game start dialogues around sustainable future diets.

Read the article about the game and its effects here:

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:

It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

Walked home via Coruscant this evening.

Comparto un artículo en el que reviso los textos sobre la erosión democrática durante el gobierno de AMLO. En otras palabras, sistematizo los trabajos que argumentan que AMLO provocó un deterioro en la de por sí problemática democracia en México.

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I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!