Matthäus Rest
@mattrest.bsky.social
peasant / anthropologist / antifascist: milk & microbes, ancient DNA & energy infrastructures, Himalayas & Alps, working at Uni Fribourg & roadsides.net
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"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
January 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
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14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten
January 14, 2026 at 5:43 AM
14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten
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Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Gerri Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
Wiener Original Gerri Geiger ist tot
Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
www.diepresse.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Gerri Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
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good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
The New York Times states it plainly in display type:
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
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Immer wieder amüsant, wie der politisch gescheiterte Sebastian Kurz allen die große Weltpolitik erklären möchte, digga du bist an St. Pölten gescheitert und willst uns jetzt Washington und Moskau erklären?
January 4, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Immer wieder amüsant, wie der politisch gescheiterte Sebastian Kurz allen die große Weltpolitik erklären möchte, digga du bist an St. Pölten gescheitert und willst uns jetzt Washington und Moskau erklären?
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If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tina Harris, Amsterdam Anthropologies Series 2024–2025
YouTube video by Amsterdam Anthropologies Series – UvA
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January 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...
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Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
www.middleeasteye.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
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Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden.
#Solidarität
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#Solidarität
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Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland
Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden.
#Solidarität
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
#Solidarität
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
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Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
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Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
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I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
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Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
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In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
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@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...