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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last year, I sat down with two brilliant philosophers, Giovanni Fava and Nigel Clark, to discuss a wide range of Earthly questions, from asymmetrical geological agency to criticism of relational ontologies in the Anthropocene world. The interview is now available in Theory, Culture & Society.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Alternative headlines: explosive adaptation; geological plumbing. All in the hope of four more days of running the reactor. Anything, literally anything but long term planning and investing in sustainable energy. Better still if it involves blowing things up.

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Romanian navy blows up rock in Danube to redirect water to nuclear plant – video

Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to divert a large volume of water to the Old Danube and the Cernavodă nuclear power plant to help with its cooling

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, λακωνικόν.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Essential reading for the degrowth camp.

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are absolutely delighted to host Nigel Clark’s keynote lecture on June 17 at the NICHE Centre of Ca’ Foscari Venice! Nigel is one of the most creative and rigorous scholars working on geoanthropology, or the study of inhabiting a dynamic planet. His talks are geological events :)

A poster for a keynote lecture by Nigel Clark, titled "Planetary Reason and the Ordinary Problems of Earthly Excess."

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For those interested in critical reflections on the conceptual relationship between conflict, security, and the environment, our May 25 workshop on “War and Ecology” may be interesting. Can a geoanthropological approach give us a new perspective? Let’s find out :)

A poster for the May 25 workshop titled "War and Ecology: Political Epistemology in a Burning World."

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’m very pleased to have had the chance to speak about geopraxis and the material base at “The Apocalypse Is Not Coming” conference hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. A big thank you to the organisers and my wonderful colleagues from Ca’ Foscari Venice ❤️

The list of panels for the TANC conference hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with our panel titled "What is geological agency?"

A picture of P. D. Omodeo's introduction to geoanthropology and presentation on geological agency at the end of the early modern period.

A picture of G. Gandolfi's presentation on the changing conceptions of agency and nature in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A picture of G. Fava's presentation on Earth stewardship and geopraxis in the Anthropocene scholarship.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Agree and would add that #MeToo marked a specific intensification of masculinist counter-politics because for the first time, feminism showed it could operate legally from inside patriarchal institutions, dismantling individual men and power structures through liberal governance's own mechanisms.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Summer school + conference: PAScapes at Vilnius University convenes philosophers, environmental humanists, memory scholars, and interdisciplinary thinkers to re-envision coexistence through the ecosocial. Keynotes: Cary Wolfe, Lambros Malafouris, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Luba Jurgenson.

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[CALL FOR PAPERS! Submission deadline for the conference extended to April 11] Ecosocial Ideas: Coexistence and Change. Interdisciplinary Summer School and Conference, August 21–26 & 27–28, 2026 - PA ...

Initiated by the (Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre (PAScapes) at Vilnius University, this twofold event invites participants to examine the

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This entire discussion is missing a crucial part: the structure of university education. If access to higher education was universal, research not productivist, and classrooms not cutthroat competition via grading, the irruption of AI would be a minor nuisance and not the cataclysm it is right now.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Cada día avanzando un poco más hacia las cumbres de mi propia sanchidad.

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Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We never know how someone learns; but whatever the way, it is always by the intermediary of signs, by wasting time, and not by the assimilation of some objective content.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I recently reviewed @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's situated, transdisciplinary account of the environmental disaster brought by Russia's full scale invasion and its wider implications in the context of the region's extractivist histories. Essential reading 👇 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Ecocide in Ukraine – ATHENA PDF

ATHENA PDF with book-cover thumbnail.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

On the plane of immanence between the US and Romania, Ro sends university students trafficked by their profs and the US maintains the predators afloat, academics and the Tates all together in the tight embrace of desire and body counts.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

it's fascinating how we haven't been able to move past these dynamics

Most critiques of contemporary mass protest focus on the roles that technology and social media in particular have played in pulling demonstrations together. Facebook and Twitter brought thousands to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, yes, but also, as prominent critics like sociologist Zeynep Tufekci have argued, those same mechanisms may have ensured that the movements they sparked wouldn’t endure for long. Digital coordination, Bevins writes, allows for “the existence of big protests that come together very quickly—so quickly, perhaps, that no one knows each other, people are trying to realize contradictory goals, and after the initial energy fades, nothing remains.” The initial energies social media loosed in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere were real and explosive—governments did shake, and regimes did fall. The question at the heart of the mass protest decade isn’t why social media–driven uprisings failed to change conditions where they happened, but why the changes forced by those uprisings—even at their most potent and least ephemeral—were either limited in scope or reversed, remarkably often, by leaders worse than the ones activists did manage to topple.

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Exceptional text by Negarestani that deserves to be studied.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Anything that looks messy becomes forbidden, because it might be used, misread, exploited. This is how a left becomes politically colorblind. It loses the ability to distinguish solidarity with people from alignment with states, to oppose the Imperium without granting dictatorships a free pass..."

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Iran, the Greatest Inconvenience: On the Eternal Silence of a Contemporary Left - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)

I begin with what looks like a detour, an old television memory that used to put a smile on our faces. It is also a compressed model of a political reflex that keeps repeating in Iran. When I was youn...

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If a country ran a militarised and masked force with minimal oversight and accountability to harass, detain, and murder minorities and politically opposed citizens, that country would be internationally denounced, and sanctions would likely follow. So how come no state leader speaks out against ICE?

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I wrote about the irruption of ontological difference into the geological register by putting Heidegger and Deleuze together, running their differences through stratigraphy & Earth System Science, and asking what happens to difference when extinction removes the relationality we take for granted?

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

International law died many deaths over the last 26 years: in Iraq, in Palestine, in Ukraine... Every time, people accepted it because the violations happened in “peripheral” places. And now, as it always does throughout history, the periphery has caught up with the center, and it looks grim.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Coincido: atender a las formas implica ya un contenido normativo. Los formalistas rusos ya lo sabían pero me gusta más pensarlo con Foucault y Benjamin, para quienes 1. la forma del discurso delimita lo que puede decirse y 2. la forma técnica de transmisión transforma el sentido mismo del discurso.

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

EduOpen now hosts an open online course titled “Anthropocene in Venice,” prepared by a multidisciplinary research team at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The course offers video lectures and a free textbook, all in English. Sign up now :) learn.eduopen.org/eduopenv2/co...

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

True about great powers and leverage. But the millions who rose, the thousands murdered, the street momentum are real. The strength of empire feeds on the ritual reaffirmation of hierarchy and inevitability, even when masked as critique. Democracy, however fragile, can still be built from within.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Ideology is now adopted in TikTok bits for a targeted purpose and dropped within 24-48h. It's no longer even about "liberating" and "bringing democracy." I'd say that even the oil/resource messaging is weak, overtaken by my hemisphere, my backyard discourse. Basically, domination is its own message.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Qué posición tan triste y poco imaginativa-un tecnoceno teñido de verde que oculta que la descarbonización gestionada por megamáquinas, finanzas y Estados fuertes prolonga el mismo régimen extractivo y colonial. Nos esperan tiempos difíciles en España y no solo por el auge de la extrema derecha.

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Todo nuevo bajo el Sol - Corriente Cálida

Editorial La política industrial, la estética de la gran escala, la tecnología renovable y la energía limpia, abundante y barata deben ser, ya, la base material del mundo, pero también la base materia...

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Romanian-Austrian version of "drill, baby, drill" served with a wrapping of the new security-sovereignty-strategy EU discourses. The largest natural gas extraction project in Europe de facto secures a radically insecure century ahead, all financed with EU money. bankwatch.org/blog/amid-a-...

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Neptun Deep: Start of drilling operations

YouTube video by OMV Petrom

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!

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Book Review of "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" | Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

El barro se limpia pero la tristeza y la rabia no.

Image for the 1-year anniversary of the devastating floods in the Valencia region. One person's arm is helping the other climb up with a bedsheet from the flooded and muddy streets. The Catalan-language inscription reads "we will raise our voices for those who cannot do so."

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La Mari @lamari.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Una de las manifestaciones más multitudinarias de la historia de Valencia. #Mazóncriminal

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Jose María Echarte @jecharte.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

"We are not heroes".

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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 05/10/2025

🗣️Continuamos el domingo con esta interesantísima entrevista de @elenadesus.bsky.social al sociólogo Denys Gorbach. 📄 "Desde 2012 Rusia empezó una secuencia de guerras comerciales. Un mes era la leche, al siguiente las locomotoras." ctxt.es/es/20251001/...

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“En las izquierdas de Europa occidental hay un deseo de poner un muro e ignorar lo que ocurre en el este”

Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

In Romania, we entered the post-election phase when, aside from further limiting access to services & education through ineffective budget cuts, the Beautiful Decent Cultural Gatekeepers gather to insult those they've been gatekeeping from with stale metaphors. Annoying bc I like that Ionescu play.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I've been working on developing a critical ecosemiotic approach for the arts. A preliminary framework is the one I used in my article on Vajont & Michelucci's church. Still work in progress but for now, there are 2 regimes: 1. present-focused, vernacular-knowledge; 2. technocratic, future-projecting

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Aesthetics of Control and Absence in the Vajont Disaster and Giovanni Michelucci’s Chiesa Monumentale di Santa Maria Immacolata | Itinera

Estetica del controllo e dell'assenza nel disastro del Vajont e nella Chiesa Monumentale di Santa Maria Immacolata di Giovanni Michelucci

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Venezia lo sa da che parte stare! Dal Ponte della Libertà per una Palestina libera

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Si hace unos meses todo cuñao era experto en riadas, ahora lo es en incendios forestales. Lo que escucho en las calles de mi pueblo es un verdadero manual de desinformación... Buen diagnóstico (genial la imagen de "avivar las llamas dialécticas que ya devoraban las redes sociales") y fact-check:

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No, el ecologismo no quema el monte.

Juan Miguel de la Fuente contesta en este artículo a las preguntas mediáticas que ponen al ecologismo, la despoblación rural y la ausencia de laboreo como origen del fuego.

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Many folks are unhappy about the EU’s weak stance re: Trump. But how many would be raging if the negotiators went gung-ho and put the EU into recession? There is no material basis for this Principled Power some people demand, and there is no popular will to substitute virtues for welfare. So, then?

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Viví en uno de esos edificios en Valencia; luego me mudé a una ciudad pequeña, en una zona de clase media-alta, pero los problemas persisten: calor asfixiante, negacionismo climático y rechazo a la ayuda pública. Comprensible en este clima ideológico, pero desesperante al vivirlo y compartirlo.

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

As for Ukraine’s new law stripping the independence of two anti-corruption agencies, preceded by a dramatic crackdown on individual corruption investigators, which many of us are trying to make sense of—perhaps this should be understood in a broader geopolitical turn. Some factors: 🧵 1/7

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Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉 @aplenice.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If you were wondering how it's going under Romania's new government: as part of the fiscal measures for reducing deficit, rural libraries are downsized & librarian positions cut, while book VAT is up from 5% to 11%. But, gambling is decentralized so local mafias can freely develop their activity.

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Fără biblioteci, fără povești. Ce pierde un sat când i se închide biblioteca?

Am vorbit cu trei bibliotecare, un antropolog și o creatoare de conținut ca să înțelegem ce se întâmplă atunci când statul decide că un bibliotecar cu normă întreagă e „prea mult” pentru un sat și ce ...

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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

🇷🇴 news outlet Hotnews reports that president Nicuşor Dan will use his presidential prerogatives to send the law banning fascist organizations (& the display of fascist symbols etc) back to Parliament for re-examination. Not good. hotnews.ro/legea-vexler...

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„Legea Vexler” privind combaterea extremismului va fi retrimisă la Parlament pentru reexaminare, anunță președintele Dan - HotNews.ro

Preşedintele Nicuşor Dan a declarat vineri că va retrimite în Parlament „Legea Vexler”, după ce Curtea Constituţională va publica motivarea deciziei prin care

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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Detailed account by an anarchist in Iran on protest, survival, repression and escape in the period of last month’s Israel-Iran war. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anar... via @anarchistlibrary.bsky.social

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A Detailed Report of War

Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan A Detailed Report of War and a Few Million Forced to Flee June 24 2025

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

El ruido y el cinismo nos han hecho olvidar que España fue, hace no tanto, un laboratorio político admirado mundialmente. Aquí @waleedshahid.bsky.social toma las experiencias municipalistas de Madrid y Barcelona como modelo para la NYC de Zohran Mamdani.

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The Socialist Mayors of Madrid and Barcelona

Forget the fear-mongering. Madrid and Barcelona tried it. Trash was collected. Housing was built. Power was challenged.

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 30/06/2025

L'idée de discriminations climatiques va faire son chemin : nous ne sommes pas égaux devant les canicules. Sur un même territoire, les disparités sont flagrantes. L'exposition aux chaleurs extrêmes n'est pas partagée et tout le monde n'a pas un accès égal aux possibilités de s'en abriter.

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Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Meanwhile, in Venice... Proud of my colleagues from the Political Epistemology group and elsewhere for participating!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Nino Sarratore has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

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