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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cultural Techniques of Biosensing is out now! Against the emergence of "the Internet of Bodies," Christopher O’Neill presents an incisive long history of biosensing technologies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. ow.ly/Z8Kg50ZPPQT #ReadUP

Book cover of Cultural Techniques of Biosensing:
A History of the Body in Error by Christopher O’Neill

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first book, Cultural Techniques of Biosensing: A History of the Body in Error, is out today with SUP! In Sun-ha Hong's words, it's “a fascinating philosopher’s walk through historical contraptions used for sensing and surveilling the body.” Read the intro here! www.sup.org/books/media-...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK

Cover of How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent by Timothy Neale. The cover features an aerial shot of a large smoke cloud billowing upwards from the forest below. A brown river snakes its way through the trees. The smoke cloud reaches the clouds in the sky. The title appears in a semi-transparent red orange sans-serif font across the cover. The author’s name appears directly below in a semi-transparent yellow.

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📯 Nominations for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize are now open!! 🏆 A prize to celebrate the best scholarship in the region by a junior scholar. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted 💌 Self-nominations strongly encouraged

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka. Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂‍↕️

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AusSTS | Australasian Science & Technology Studies Network

AusSTS is a network for STS researchers across Australasia. Join our community for conferences and events. Next conference: Wellington, Nov 9-11, 2026.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Stay tuned for the full CPF in the new year

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

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AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney & more!! Deadline 14 March

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excited to discuss 'the face of the child and the face of the corpse' tomorrow at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for the 'Irresistible Decay' conference! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc... (might recommend a trigger warning for the conference booklet; you can probably guess the kind of thing featured! 😅)

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Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Finally on day 3 there will be a keynote panel on noise within health, including Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney) @wombatscholar.bsky.social Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social (University of Bath) and Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social (Deakin). 5/

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨 AusSTS2025 submissions close in 10 days! Submit a paper, present your work creatively in a poster or Making and Doing installation, pre-submit a short paper to workshop at the conference, and/ or get an STS-adjacent crew together by proposing a meet- up 👭💞

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July Deadline for proposals: 14 March Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social

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Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The next AusSTS is so soon. Come join us in Melbourne. Cfp is live at: aussts.org/aussts-2025-... #STS

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Serresians and Cageians warmly invited to corrupt our channels! #aussts2025 🪱🔕😅

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!

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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thanks so much to @thaophan.bsky.social for putting together our AusSTS & friends starter pack - go.bsky.app/DR3Tptg

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I've now uploaded a open access version of a piece from last year - Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite' philarchive.org/rec/ONEETA

Title page and abstract for the linked article, on Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite'

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡ 9 - 11 July, 2025 Melbourne/Naarm Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social Ful CFP coming soon!

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Carina Truyts @carinatruyts.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 21/01/2025

A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌

A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television"

Abstract for an academic article entitled 'conspirituality and online scam ads'. The abstract begins: Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects with current forms of commercial “conspirituality” that thrive on social media platforms, inviting users to suspend their disbelief in miracle cures and get-rich-quick schemes. The scam ads we examined mobilize critiques of existing social and economic inequality to enhance the appeal of the false solutions they offer. Following recent work on conspirituality, the article draws upon Jacques Ranciere’s notion of “dissensus” to analyze the ways in which the style and content of scam ads invite a form of “conspiracy believing” that challenges common sense understandings...

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Big Saturday preparing my paper for next week's Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference - I'll be discussing the strange circumstances around Bernard Stiegler's first published piece, the misleadingly titled 'Questions for Jacques Derrida', and Derrida's (non)-response...

Abstract for ASCP paper 'I prefer the letter' - In various lists of 'Interviews with Jacques Derrida' we find an intriguing early encounter with Bernard Stiegler - 1984's 'Questions à Jacques Derrida', published in the experimental arts journal 'Digraphe'. Despite the significance of each thinker in their own right, and in relation to each other's philosophical path, this interview has never been republished, or collected, or translated. This is probably because the encounter did not really take place. The 'interview', as published, was merely a set of questions - really more like six theses from Stiegler on Derrida's grammatology, in an era in which Stiegler argues that "all writing has 'become' media". After the first 'question', on the relation between doxa and paradox in Derrida's thought, Stiegler 'concedes' that "I'm not really expecting a response". Indeed, the piece features no reply from Derrida - Stiegler was essentially 'interviewing' an empty chair, as it were. And yet, buried in the Derrida archives at UC Irvine, we find that Derrida did in fact respond to Stiegler's questions. His reply, a letter beginning with the line 'I Prefer the Letter', was written several months too late - and indeed was ultimately never published. Here I consider the stakes of this non-encounter, as a kind of dress rehearsal for their later (non-)encounter in (non-)real-time in 'Echographies of Television' (1996/2002).

Photograph of a young Bernard Stiegler with the caption 'L'eidos, c'est le flux'

Front cover of the May 1984 edition of the journal Digraphe

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