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Patrick McCray
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + environment

Kluge Chair in Technology & Society @ LoC, 2025-26

New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/

Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗‍♂️⛷️🏄🏼‍♂️🏔 in Cali-rado.

More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Reminds of the one time I met Bruno Latour...it was in an elevator in Singapore; we had to show him how it worked.
January 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Staff - underpaid and overworked - aren't too happy either.
January 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Your website is broken.
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
[We] "awaken each day with many different fears: that we or our family members will disappear, that hyperinflation will wreck our savings once again, that our migrant loved ones are not safe in the places where they sought refuge."
January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"the cost of the resulting economic catastrophe was brutally shifted onto the population. Public spending shrank, except to strengthen the police and military apparatus, leaving our civic institutions hollow."
January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Our society has been orphaned, ground down to its most basic capacities. The government has been reduced to a mere apparatus for securing its own continuity. "
January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"life has become an exercise in struggle in an economy of scraps and favors, making do with a patchwork of informal jobs and relationships that can never quite fill the void left by the corruption and inefficiency of the government."
January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Wreckers.
December 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The library, which received service and quality awards, includes books from Soviet rocket scientists describing missions during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as information about experiments on NASA missions during the heyday of human space exploration.
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM