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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 2h

Today in our blog, Misria Shaik Ali takes us through the porous world around Tummalapalle Uranium Mine and Mill's tailing pond and its necro-vitalities: the condition of making life and living on deadly conditions of chemical vitalities.

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Necrovitality and Porous Exclusions: On Dying amidst Chemical Vitalities | Platypus

This piece introduces the concept of necro-vitality developed as a way of conversing about the intersection of materiality of chemicals and deathworlds. Responding to Gabrielle Hecht provocation and i...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 5d

Artifacts like lanyards stabilize the inherent tensions between access and restriction. Today on the blog, Sam DiBella (@prolixpost.bsky.social) recounts and reflects on this from his fieldwork in the security industry.

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Dreaming of Security through Lanyards and Bollards | Platypus

A perimeter is always porous, to certain people. Managing how it is perforated is a kind of professional work. Odd behavior is socially marked out and isolated. In the US security industry, by contras...

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 2d

🕮 Vengan a la presentación del volumen colectivo “Interrogating Development. The Mobilisation of Science, Technologies, and Technical Assistance in Postwar Mexico”

📅8 de octubre, 12 hrs.
📍Salón Académico del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (UNAM).

¡Ahí nos vemos!

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 5d

Artifacts like lanyards stabilize the inherent tensions between access and restriction. Today on the blog, Sam DiBella (@prolixpost.bsky.social) recounts and reflects on this from his fieldwork in the security industry.

blog.castac.org/2025/10/drea...

Dreaming of Security through Lanyards and Bollards | Platypus

A perimeter is always porous, to certain people. Managing how it is perforated is a kind of professional work. Odd behavior is socially marked out and isolated. In the US security industry, by contras...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 6d

No post de hoje, Ana Manuela Karipuna, antropóloga indígena, nos conta sobre os entrelaçaentos entre objetos indǵenas, as mulheres que os produzem, conhecimento acadêmico e os movimentos indígenas e feministas:

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Reflexões Sobre uma Antropologia Feminista ou uma Antropologia Mutirão: Meninas e Mulheres Karipuna | Platypus

A afirmação étnica da minha mãe, também antropóloga, foi importante para interromper os processos de esquecimento e invisibilidade das minhas origens. Hoje, proponho essas questões na minha pesquisa a...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on Oct 9 @ 12pm PT for a webinar on the histories, impacts & policies of California’s data centers. This talk will feature @khari.bsky.social, Masheika Allgood & Nicole Merino Tsui, moderated by Cecilia Marrinan of Kapor Foundation & @tamigraph.bsky.social kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 9d

In today's post, Ana Manuela Karipuna, an Indigenous anthropologist, tells us about the intertwining of Indigenous objects, the women who produce them, academic knowledge, and Indigenous and feminist movements:

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Reflections on a Feminist Anthropology or a Mutirão Anthropology: Karipuna Girls and Women | Platypus

The ethnic reaffirmation of my mother, also an anthropologist, was important in stopping the processes of forgetting and invisibility regarding my origins. I bring up those questions today in my anthr...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 9d

📚New in [LAT-STS Library]!

"Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory", edited by Noela Invernizzi & Leandro Rodriguez Medina showcases original contributions from the region, bridging Global North-South dialogues. A must-read for diversifying STS.

🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 8d

🌏 "A closer examination into the supply chain capitalism of AI unveils environmental harms such as water struggles, which have not been considered by the algorithmic harms and resistance literature before."

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 9d

This content is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. More on the link above!

CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 9d

In today's post, Ana Manuela Karipuna, an Indigenous anthropologist, tells us about the intertwining of Indigenous objects, the women who produce them, academic knowledge, and Indigenous and feminist movements:

blog.castac.org/2025/09/refl...

Reflections on a Feminist Anthropology or a Mutirão Anthropology: Karipuna Girls and Women | Platypus

The ethnic reaffirmation of my mother, also an anthropologist, was important in stopping the processes of forgetting and invisibility regarding my origins. I bring up those questions today in my anthr...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 13d

Does “progress” mean swapping a guitar for an iPad? In this piece, the authors reflect on Apple’s controversial ‘Crush’ Ad to question digital colonialism and the narrative of technological progress to replicate historical patterns of cultural erasure.

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Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad? | Platypus

While Apple's controversial 'Crush' advertisement is about technological progress, this article argues that it represents a form of digital colonialism, where the compression of diverse, culturally si...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 13d

Does “progress” mean swapping a guitar for an iPad? In this piece, the authors reflect on Apple’s controversial ‘Crush’ Ad to question digital colonialism and the narrative of technological progress to replicate historical patterns of cultural erasure.

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Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad? | Platypus

While Apple's controversial 'Crush' advertisement is about technological progress, this article argues that it represents a form of digital colonialism, where the compression of diverse, culturally si...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 16d

From memory spectacles on national TV to experiments in sensory transmission, today on Platypus explore the way reform-era China cultivated new ways of feeling information, redefining human potential in a technological world.

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A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China | Platypus

Medical anthropologists and STS scholars have examined the epistemic roles of biomedical practices in creating future-oriented narratives of life’s “potentiality” — visions of life that could and shou...

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 14d

Available Online from #PracticingAnthropology: Productive Friction: Navigating Research Collaborations with Health Professionals by Britt Dahlberg, Kailyn Sitter, Emerson Woody & Dana Ketcher
doi.org/10.1080/0888...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15d

Can't make it to the live talk? Go ahead & register to receive a link to the recording!

Internet Archive @archive.org · 15d

The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?

📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.

📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...

Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 15d

We are having our first Ethnographic Design CoLab meeting of the year!

Affect Theater with Cristiana Giordano, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, September 26, 12-4pm, Location TBA.

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 16d

From memory spectacles on national TV to experiments in sensory transmission, today on Platypus explore the way reform-era China cultivated new ways of feeling information, redefining human potential in a technological world.

blog.castac.org/2025/09/a-fe...

A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China | Platypus

Medical anthropologists and STS scholars have examined the epistemic roles of biomedical practices in creating future-oriented narratives of life’s “potentiality” — visions of life that could and shou...

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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 16d

Call for Papers: Locating Power & Resistance in Global AI Production Networks

AAG 2026 Annual Meeting

AI is not just “in the cloud.” It relies on global supply chains, with power concentrated in a few countries and corporations.

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Call for Papers: Locating Power and Resistance Within Global AI Production Networks

American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2026 Annual Meeting

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 20d

Open Access from #PracticingAnthropology: Connecting the Dots: A Collaborative Ethnography of Plastic Leakages in Indonesia & the Philippines by Hardon, Pakasi, Hidayana, Taqueban, Moyer, van Zeben, Dey, Nichter & Lim Tan
doi.org/10.1080/0888...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 23d

¿La idea de diversión está vinculada a la técnica? Martin Larsson encontró esta duda mientras trabajaba como traductor de una app para entrenadores de fútbol. En este post, el autor nos comparte una aproximación para concebir esta aparente dicotomía.

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¿Podemos Hacer Espacio para la Técnica?: Política y Juego en el Entrenamiento Digital | Platypus

En Suecia, se espera que el fútbol juvenil sea divertido, pero de una manera específica. Con raíces en la idealización del amateurismo por encima del profesionalismo en el siglo XIX, la diversión en e...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 23d

"This is one of those books my mind keeps coming back to. [...] As Mechanics and Luddites, we could prepare students to not simply be cogs, but machine breakers as well as builders."

Really lovely review of my book in the context of education technology www.civicsoftechnology.org/mechanic-and...

Mechanic and the Luddite — Civics of Technology

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 23d

¿La idea de diversión está vinculada a la técnica? Martin Larsson encontró esta duda mientras trabajaba como traductor de una app para entrenadores de fútbol. En este post, el autor nos comparte una aproximación para concebir esta aparente dicotomía.

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¿Podemos Hacer Espacio para la Técnica?: Política y Juego en el Entrenamiento Digital | Platypus

En Suecia, se espera que el fútbol juvenil sea divertido, pero de una manera específica. Con raíces en la idealización del amateurismo por encima del profesionalismo en el siglo XIX, la diversión en e...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 27d

What influences our interactions and encounters with soils? Today, Nadia Luis explores this question through their research on food forests and community gardens in Texas. They offer us to think about soils and human bodies through possibilities of collaboration.

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Collaborating Bodies: Community Gardens and Food Forests in Central Texas | Platypus

Soils depend upon their ability to form relationships with a myriad of organisms. Like the human bodies that interact with it, soils are complex and worldly agents. Soils have different textures, grit...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 29d

Today on Platypus, Mauricio Baez explores wandering as a way to inhabit time, rethink the city, and uncover new forms of sensitivity within and beyond the laboratories.

Read the full post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/09/feel...

Feeling Adrift in the Ethnography of a Laboratory | Platypus

This reflection explores the possibilities of broadening our perspective on laboratory work by incorporating an analysis of the ordinary dynamics that shape the surrounding spaces. I propose that such...

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