Tijana Stevanović
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Tijana Stevanović
@tijana.bsky.social
weeping revolutionary frowning with a ‘recession grimace’

architectural humanities via cultural studies, history, labour, technologies @UCL

parent of a toddler with four mother tongues
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Mohammad Hosseini: ‘If AI cannot create really novel ideas, it also is unlikely to detect really creative ideas because it is being trained on existing data. In a manuscript, you are reporting something that has happened, whereas in a grant, you are sharing an idea that still has potential.’ 3/3
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A lot of the nostalgia is a nostalgia for community, for love, for meaning, and for some level of economic security. Most of the energy transition narratives overlook this. Think of transition only in terms of jobs substitution and other energy sources,
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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CND: Paradox of patriarchy:

"If men have all the poewr, why do I feel powerless?"

= patriarchy does NOT benefit all men, but promises working class men symbolic proximity to power, while provoking anxiety and a sense of insufficiency
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Also there was a fear that the children would be influenced too much by native nannies and maids and their culture... So women were needed as the "border guards of German civilization", ensuring the continuity of _racial_ reproduction
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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CND: The idea of the house wife is, as Maria Mies pointed out in Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, a colonial figure.. white colonial supremacy required white women to move to the colonies to avoid male colonists marrying and having children with non-white women...
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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There are at least four angles worthy of exploration:

- The nature and severity of the attack.
- The effects on arts and humanities research.
- The aged and patchwork nature of the BL's IT estate which has made it hard to recover from.
- The BL's commendable honesty in sharing lessons learned:
Learning lessons from the cyber-attack
Today, we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place against the British Library last October.
www.bl.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Not here to promote any software but I have been very satisfied with the sophistication that ‚deepL’ provides for German-English, for example. A lot of people in Germany prefer it to google, and I assume it also improves bc of that
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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"Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit is brilliant, mordant, and politically astute—a powerful riposte to “left wing melancholia,” to the pieties of memory politics, and the heroics of failure. At a time of global counterrevolution, this eloquent manifesto
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM