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Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt… more

Andreas Reckwitz
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Political science 39%
Sociology 33%
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
My focus: technology imaginaries—how we can counter the #data doxa of our algorithmic present through everyday practices & stories. Grateful to be part of this initiative. Stay tuned for insights & publications as we rethink narratives in culture & society.

by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Our team will map overlaps between sociology & literary studies while opening new terrain: from the epistemological value of literature to the sociological use of narratology. It’s about cultivating an exciting, interdisciplinary field.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Honored to join the @princeton.edu — @humboldtuni.bsky.social research project “#Socionarratology — Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies & Social Sciences.” A 2-year initiative exploring how literature & sociology intersect to shape knowledge & society.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife
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thesociologicalreview.org
CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

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"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."
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ria.ie
Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710
Select tickets – The future of AI and education – Royal Irish Academy
Join us for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors. About t...
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halcyene.bsky.social
Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models

www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk
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by Rob Kitchin — Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz, Silke Roth

robkitchin.bsky.social
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025
The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...
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newyorker.com
We say that we “decide” to get married, to have children, to live in particular cities or embark on particular careers, and in a sense this is true. But how do we actually make those choices?
The Art of Decision-Making
Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
The way we write shapes our thinking. We process the world through the composition of text [...]. It’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important in a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants. share.google/JhKEPrOpqext...
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
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Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

criticalinquiry.bsky.social
"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog.
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Our Cruel Crude Techne?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Our moment seems marked by cruelty: from best-selling books warning Christians against “toxic empathy” towards immigrant families to online trolls who gleefully torture their v…
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annaschjoett.bsky.social
The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society
This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...
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maxczollek.bsky.social
Wolfram Weimer, Gründer des für ausgewogene Berichterstattung bekannten Magazins Cicero soll Kultusminister werden. Damit hat Merz sich für eine Eskalation im rechten Kulturkampf entschieden. Weimer ist nämlich ein Hardliner. & zwar schon lange /x
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...
Wolfram Weimer wird neuer Kulturstaatsminister
Der ehemalige Focus-Chefredakteur und Verleger Wolfram Weimer soll neuer Kulturstaatsminister werden. Dass sich der Medienunternehmer für Kultur interessiert, war bislang nicht bekannt.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Desire, pleasure, control — A deep dive into the contradictions we live every day: "Neoliberalism represents a stage in social formation that is no more liberal than a Hail Mary pass in football is a form of prayer." 👉 hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Captives of Desire
Neoliberalism rejected the assessment that the absence of constraints on desire undermined systemic viability.
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Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz

claesdevreese.bsky.social
Sneak preview of the program for our exciting @algosoc.org conference The Future of Public Values next week in Amsterdam.

Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼
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by Rob Kitchin — Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz

robkitchin.bsky.social
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds by Katherine Reilly, Gillian Russell and Rachel Horst in Somatechnics www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds | Somatechnics
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Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz, Marianne Hundt, Dominik Vogel

netzpolitik.org
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.

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Palantir: Wer jetzt bei Peter Thiel Software kauft, hat wirklich nichts verstanden
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten...
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
#KI -Bildgeneratoren dienen nicht nur der Desinformation, sondern der optimierten #Affekt -Bewirtschaftung: Sie stilisieren „echte Emotionen“ zu lesbaren Bildern. Sie sind #Nostalgiemaschinen & Klischeeverstärker. #mustread bei @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social

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Echte Emotionen. Gene­ra­tive KI und rechte Weltbilder
Die radikale Rechte liebt generative KI. Trump wie Musk teilen massenhaft KI-generierte Bilder auf ihren Plattformen, und auch die AfD hat schon lange den Nutzen von Midjourney & Co. für ihren Wahlkam...
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humboldtuni.bsky.social
🗯️ Warum treffen manche Gruppen bessere Entscheidungen als andere? 🗯️ Mit dieser Frage setzt sich eine neue, in der Fachzeitschrift Scientific Reports veröffentlichte Studie von Forschenden des Exzellenzclusters @scioi.bsky.social auseinander.
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
BU: Mohsen Raoufi (rechts im Bild) von der HU und Vito Mengers (links) von der TU Berlin forschen gemeinsam am Exzellenzcluster "Science of Intelligence" (SCIoI) Foto: SCIoI
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Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz, Jenny Pickerill

dukepress.bsky.social
"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
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georgrestle.bsky.social
Weiß nicht, was einem größere Sorgen machen sollte: Die weltfremde Rede eines US-Präsidenten, der sich für seinen Staatsstreich feiern lässt oder das infantile Gejohle und Gekreische seiner ihm hörigen republikanischen Abgeordneten. Ein williger Hofstaat, der seine eigene Entmachtung feiert.
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deutscheaidshilfe.bsky.social
Die US-Regierung hat weltweit fast 10.000 Verträge rund um Gesundheitsangebote gekündigt, darunter lebenswichtige Programme zur #HIV- Diagnostik und HIV-Therapie, zu Tuberkulose und Malaria, gegen Mangelernährung und für sauberes Trinkwasser.
US Terminates Thousands Of Life-Saving Global Health Grants Including For HIV, TB And Malaria - Health Policy Watch
The Trump administration has terminated the contracts of nearly 10,000 global health projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) or
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maxczollek.bsky.social
Die Mobilisierung des Neutralitätsgebots als Waffe gg. die plurale Demokratie ist übrigens eine Strategie, die die AfD seit Jahren in den Bundesländern anwendet. CDUCSU zeigen aktuell im Schnelltempo, wie die Rede von der "Alternative mit Substanz" gemeint gewesen ist.
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Union setzt mit 551 Fragen gemeinnützige Organisationen unter Druck
Die Unionsfraktion hat eine Kleine Anfrage zur »politischen Neutralität staatlich geförderter Organisationen« eingereicht. Betroffen sind Gruppen, die gegen Friedrich Merz und seinen Umgang mit der Af...
www.spiegel.de
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972mag.com
Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground - https://www.972mag.com/tunnels-hamas-lethal-gas-bombs-gaza/
Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s war on Gaza’s underground
The Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes.
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datasociety.bsky.social
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Gov is part of a drive to automate public service & admin using ungoverned, unaccountable AI systems. It will harm vulnerable people. Writing in Tech Policy Press in December, @alicetiara.bsky.social & @kevindeliban.bsky.social saw this coming. www.techpolicy.press/ai-cant-solv...
AI Can’t Solve Government Waste – and May Hurt Vulnerable Americans | TechPolicy.Press
If you believe public institutions should actually serve the public, this is an unacceptable bait-and-switch, write Kevin De Liban and Alice Marwick.
www.techpolicy.press
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by Rob Kitchin — Reposted by: Andreas Reckwitz

robkitchin.bsky.social
‘Data for her social good?’ Pioneering feminist data narratives for gender justice in China by Xiao Han in Media, Culture & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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ubisurv.net
Essential long read by Pankaj Mishra on the contortions of "memory culture" in #Germany, the myths of denazification, its uncritical support of #Israel, and the rise of the #AfD...

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Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
www.theguardian.com
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maxczollek.bsky.social
Wenn Historiker*innen sich irgendwann die Augen reiben & fragen, wie die Rechtsradikalen wieder so schnell an die Macht kommen konnten, lautet spätestens ab heute die Antwort: das konservative Lager hat ein zweites Mal versagt. Der bürgerlichen Mitte war die Demokratie einfach nicht wichtig genug.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Making the work of connection a matter of algorithms, reflects "the desire to enter a prosthetic sublime, shorn of all the ineptitude and mortality of our condition". But if Pugh is right, "we forfeit moments of 'magic', communion, grace, and love" — even further.

hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-ne...
Only Connect
An unsettling study of “connective labor” and its increasing subjection to bureaucratic and technological control.
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by Andreas Reckwitz

philwei.bsky.social
Chronologie: Normalisierung rechter Narrative — #UnwortdesJahres

Biodeutsch (2024)
Remigration (2023)
Klimaterroristen (2022)
Sprachpolizei (2021)
Corona-Diktatur (2020)
Umvolkung (2019)
Klimahysterie (2019)
Anti-Abschiebe-Industrie (2018)
Genderwahn (2017)
Volksverräter (2016)
Gutmensch (2015)
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