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RyC Senior Research Fellow @uocuniversitat.bsky.social in Barcelona anthropology · STS · embodied plurality · uncommoning city-making · atmospheric care · intergenerational urban landscapes · ethnography as invention tscriado.org · xcol.org
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#URBANISME | Quatre mesos després de la dana, entrevistem l'arquitecta i urbanista Andrea Ariza: "Cal apostar per la deconstrucció si volem reduir els riscos de les inundacions"

We are looking for researchers interested on seniors' health 🏥 👵 👴 , housing 🏠 and climate 🌡️ in Barcelona. - A postdoctoral researcher -> lnkd.in/dZqd24_r ) -A PhD researcher --> lnkd.in/d6R9Q9H5 - research proposal 5 under "Full text of the PhD call" Please, help us distribute these further🙏

"Mientras la burocracia retrasaba un proyecto de revitalización de un humedal en Chequia, dos familias de castores se pusieron manos (y dientes) a la obra y construyeron una serie de diques que han logrado el mismo efecto que una obra de ingeniería que habría costado 1,2 millones de euros."

"La calle del futuro es una calle con vida, permeable, con sombra y activa socialmente."

"In quest'epoca di pazzi ci mancavano gli idioti dell'orrore"

Would "No bureaucracy, no democracy" be too much for a protest t-shirt?

Gracias a Rubén Gómez Soriano el próximo 27 de febrero de 12 a 13:30 presentaré en el seminario del Institut d’Història de la Ciència (UAB) "Técnicos sensibles: La construcción de la accesibilidad como infraestructura pública en Barcelona" Presencial y en línea +info: tscriado.org/2025/02/17/t...

"In 'The End of Reason,' published in 1941, Horkheimer claimed that 'procurers, condottieri, manorial lords and guilds have always protected and at the same time exploited their clients. Protection is the archetype of domination.'" lareviewofbooks.org/article/trum...

The music of the world's geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvJk...

“For art to have emancipatory significance, it must go beyond mere questioning and deconstruction, and learn to retool statecraft’s arsenal to construct alternative popular institutions” – D’Souza, R., & Staal, J. (Eds.). (2024: 10). CICC – Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes. Framer Framed

A war on popular inhabiting, engineering exposure

"Cet ouvrage mêle carnets d’exploration, récits de découverte, interludes théoriques et méthodologiques et représentations cartographiques afin de constituer un nouvel outil de visualisation de la zone critique … de ses dynamiques et des cycles qui rendent la Terre habitable."

How about some good news? Beavers at work--beavers have saved Czech taxpayers $1.2m (£1m) by flooding a protected former army training site where a long-stalled dam was planned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

"Calvert explores three different orientations for STS—observation, intervention, and collaboration—to ask whether there is a place for STS ... an undisciplined field, often ... on the periphery of traditional institutions or dependent on ... STEM disciplines" mitpress.mit.edu/978026254694...

Butler, on point: "Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own: ..."

Debaise & Stengers (2022: 410) "Just as ecological interdependencies do not meet any general definition, the ways in which humans can make themselves capable of cultivating and repopulating the areas of experience that modernity has devastated will not unify them … they will cause them to diverge…"

Greenhouse #envhum book talks welcomes @mapicone.bsky.social to discuss her book Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina on Monday, 10 February 2025, at 16:00 CET in Norway / 10:00 Eastern in Boston. Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

¿Infografía viriliana? "La obra es un mapa de 24 metros de largo por tres metros de alto con miles de ilustraciones y textos elaborados ... que explica cómo los avances tecnológicos han sido utilizados históricamente para centralizar la autoridad y ejercer control"

Watch "The Last Ice Age," in which storyteller Andri Snær Magnason searches for the stories that lie at the edges of our climate crisis in both scientific data and his family’s memories. Selected as a finalist in this year's Social Impact Media Awards. emergencemagazine.org/film/the-las...

"technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys ... set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms"

"Wait, isn't this the plot to the 'Terminator' movies?" futurism.com/openai-signs...

One of the actions I'm taking at the moment is trying to divest as much as possible from tech companies based in the US. This website has a good list of companies that are EU-based and have to follow EU laws regarding privacy and access. european-alternatives.eu

Ratocene? Rodentocene?

'Les modes de présence du droit' (dir. Thomas Angeletti & Vincent-Arnaud Chappe) books.openedition.org/editionsehes...

"Ignorance is our common lot as we face the immensity of things. The question, however, is not to know that one does not know. That is just another way of discrediting common sense. It is a matter of daring to imagine, contrary to the assurances of specialized forms of…"

Announcing the launch of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program's International Curriculum & Community of Practice (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵 This represents 5 years of work led by our global team, building on our proud 50 year history of NSF-funded methods programs in anthropology

The music of the world's geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvJk...

"...hospital design has been relegated to the expertise of a handful of specialized firms..., which coincidentally or not, often also have expertise in prisons. The architectural standing of hospitals seemed to change during the pandemic, when the future of the hospital became a popular topic..."

Barcelona será la ciudad europea con más muertos por el aumento de las temperaturas debido al cambio climático

While a wristwatch ticks to a repeat round of numbers, buried deep within each of us is also a “wild clock”—a set of intuitive, biological traits that help coordinate our existence with the greater wheels of life that turn around us. Read more in this week's newsletter. https://buff.ly/3WUjGsD

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Tarde's issue #9 is a wonderful umbrological exploration of Fukuoka and Medellín from "Umbrellas and other umbracula" What a wonderful gift Santiago Orrego and Margherita Tess are giving us, with the care-review of Zeynep Akinci! OUT NOW: tarde.info/umbrellas-an...

In "Acting with the World," Andrew Pickering proposes a new way of being & doing that he calls acting with the world, foregrounding nonhuman and more-than-human agency and attuning our practices to those that align with the world’s best interests. Read the intro for free: https://buff.ly/3WlmZIL

Andrew Lakoff interviewed @asaskat.bsky.social on his latest book, Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge asaskat.com/2024/12/11/q...

I have a book coming out in May 2025 where I describe the excitement and adventure of discovering the strangest life on Earth. Preorder with Princeton University Press or wherever you like to get your books. tinyurl.com/bdcrwhwx If you enjoy it, please let me know, I'd love to hear from you!

🔹El nuevo mapa de la España inundable sitúa dos millones de viviendas en riesgo: el doble de lo que habíamos calculado hasta ahora 🔹La DANA obliga a redibujar el plano de los edificios en peligro de inundación eldiario.es/1_b62c25

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"Délire de droit et souveraineté radicale" -- on "sovereign citizens", "pseudolaw", and a pragmatist approach to the law (French) books.openedition.org/editionsehes...

"The guide to designing with animals, plants and other critters compiles a glossary that collects knowledge about plants, animals, and their entanglement with climatic and bio-systemic urgencies for architects and designers"