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Assistant professor @ Utrecht University. History & Philosophy of Science. Global History of Climate, Earth and Life Sciences in the Field. Atmospheric Humanities. 19th and 20th centuries. Europe / Indonesia. Environmental History of Knowledge
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Tom Hiddleston as Søren Kierkegaard.
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Pure fiction of course
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Infrastructural sciences are “culturally modest” sciences, usually bent on day-to-day practices like, testing and forecasting rather than discovery, invisibly making possible industrial lifeways. Think weather forecasting and water testing and aviation safety testing. Some examples:
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I am in this picture and I don't like it
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Future historian:
People were yearning for normalness in these days. Often the return was "in the usual" style or "by the normal way". Dinner was "in the way" that was done "often but not always" [Diary of a Normal Person, p. 23]. As Gramsci said...
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It is almost like the internalism -> externalism -> everything is entangled development in the history of science
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Ukraine, Greenland, an unfree Palestine, the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the melting Arctic, the atmosphere and space above us. The European borders have become an interesting space.
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In the link, an interesting Icelandic perspective. An independent nation under the umbrella of NATO, like Iceland, and even part of the EU. But maybe the time has passed. The Danish really should have considered this track under Bush, Obama or Biden: grapevine.is/mag/2025/01/...
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For example: Greenland. Look at the establishment of the US Space Force in 2019 (and China's independent Space Force in 2024), look at Elon Musk. Look at all the commercial space ports. Greenland has the only US Space Force base outside the US, Pittufik Space Base. Keyword: space superiority.
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Wat een opera! Wie is Wagner trouwens?