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Chakad Ojani

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Anthropology of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | chakadojani.com

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excited to see my upcoming book featured in UA Press's Spring catalogue! uapress.arizona.edu/book/harvest...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excited to see my upcoming book featured in UA Press's Spring catalogue! uapress.arizona.edu/book/harvest...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whoa! Stoked that my 2024 article, "Reindeer, Rockets and Space Infrastructures," has somehow reached over 3000 views! Available open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not often in agreement the @wsj.com but am here: "Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whoa! Stoked that my 2024 article, "Reindeer, Rockets and Space Infrastructures," has somehow reached over 3000 views! Available open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ok comrade calvin's dad
Four panels from Calvin and Hobbes. Panel 1: Calvin's dad sits with an exasperated look in front of his desktop: "It used to be that if a client wanted something done in a week, it was considered a rush job, and he'd be lucky to get it." Panel 2, he's resting his chin angrily in his had: "Now, with modems, faxes, and care phones, everybody wants everything instantly! improved technology just increases expectations." Panel 3: panning back to him sitting in front of the computer; "these machines don't make life easier - they make life more harassed." Panel 4: now we can see Calvin standing behind his dad holding up a box with an outraged look on his face, saying "Six minutes to Microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?" Calvins's dad says "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things *less* efficiently."
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I get a lot of phishing scam emails at my university email address, but the ones you get when you're publishing a book are really next level. This one is from "BBC":
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aaand we're live! uapress.arizona.edu/book/harvest...
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Harvesting the Clouds | UAPress
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aaand we're live! uapress.arizona.edu/book/harvest...
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Harvesting the Clouds | UAPress
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Another reminder that, amidst the myriad challenges facing academia, researchers also have to re-imagine the political economy of publishing. The biggest academic publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc) are also among the most restrictive and rapacious.
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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How do #extraplanetary relations shape #terrestrial life? 👀 Chakad Ojani on an #STS approach to cosmic relations: doi.org/hcbzct #OuterSpace #Infrastructure Art: Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766.
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
this is so good!
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 17/06/2026
🟡Just Out! New Article “The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru ☁️ By Chakad Ojani 😶‍🌫️ Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2641938 #Aesthetics #FogCapture #Infrastructure #Mimicry #Peru #Projects #Tapuya9 #OpenAccess
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
How should we understand the role of extraplanetary processes in shaping terrestrial relations and modes of sociality? Find out in my latest piece, "Un-Earthing STS: The Topological Quality of Cosmic Relations," now published open access in @estsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.17351/est...
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
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BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
How should we understand the role of extraplanetary processes in shaping terrestrial relations and modes of sociality? Find out in my latest piece, "Un-Earthing STS: The Topological Quality of Cosmic Relations," now published open access in @estsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.17351/est...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
coming soon
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
coming soon
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ok now I'm getting worried
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The American Anthropological Association has put out a very clear statement in response to a new report claiming the humanities and social sciences are ruining themselves with left-wing bias. Would be good to see more such robust responses to these familiar yet deeply unhelpful accusations
The report also characterizes anthropology’s attention to positionality and reflexivity as evidence of a broader rejection of objectivity. This is wholly incorrect. Reflexivity is not, as the report asserts a claim that facts don’t exist, that they are irrelevant, or that all interpretations are equally valid. It is a methodological commitment to examining how knowledge is produced and to making visible the assumptions, relationships, and contexts that shape research. Far from weakening scholarly rigor, many anthropologists see reflexivity as one of the ways rigor is strengthened.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 04/06/2026
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
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L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
Sa BD autobiographique, « Persepolis » (L’Association), l’a révélée au monde entier. Elle est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », ont écrit ses proches dans un communiqué.
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What should we do when our object of study does not seem to exist? Find out in my latest article on "non-projects" in Peru ⬇️
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What should we do when our object of study does not seem to exist? Find out in my latest article on "non-projects" in Peru ⬇️
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru @tapuya.org @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Peru www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Another of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru
In this article, I focus on how the members of a Peruvian NGO – specializing in the implementation of fog catchers – mobilized the notion of “the project” to pursue their goals. While the fog catch...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Another of my articles on fog capture in Peru has just been published in @tapuya.org! In this piece, I examine the aesthetic affordances of the project form through fieldwork on non-existent fog-capture projects in coastal Peru. The article is available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru
In this article, I focus on how the members of a Peruvian NGO – specializing in the implementation of fog catchers – mobilized the notion of “the project” to pursue their goals. While the fog catch...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Doesn't get more dystopian than this. "One Netflix subscription, please -- and throw in the annual sunlight plan too. Cheers!" darksky.org/news/orbital...
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Sunlight on demand
As long as Earth has spun on its axis in orbit around the sun, the planet has known night. Each day, half the world slips into shadow, creating the natural…
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My latest piece on contemporary space endeavors is out now in Current History! doi.org/10.1525/curh...
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In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
In our new Global Trends issue, @chakadojani.bsky.social explores how the new commercialized space economy is posing complications both in orbit and on the ground in places like Sweden, where space activity reinforces colonial legacies in land use.
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In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My latest piece on contemporary space endeavors is out now in Current History! doi.org/10.1525/curh...
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In the Shadows of the New Space Economy
Space agencies and private companies around the world are taking various measures to tap into the new space economy. In Sweden, this is reflected in the construction of a spaceport for launching small...
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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Also in our new Global Trends issue: @chakadojani.bsky.social on the new space economy, @allouche1.bsky.social y.social on the specter of water wars, Mathias Thaler on climate pessimism, and Thomas Barfield on the history of world orders. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
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Volume 125 Issue 867 | Current History | University of California Press
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3) doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3) doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great to see that my article on satellite miniaturization has found a home in the latest issue of American Anthropologist ⬇️
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Oh and feel free to drop me a message if you can't access the article!
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great to see that my article on satellite miniaturization has found a home in the latest issue of American Anthropologist ⬇️
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Oh and feel free to drop me a message if you can't access the article!
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5) 🔗 doi.org/10.1353/con.... #Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS
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Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5) 🔗 doi.org/10.1353/con.... #Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS
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Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨 New article! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/hopk...
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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨 New article! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/hopk...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Configurations Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2025 tinyurl.com/4d8mwfzj CONTRIBUTORS Chakad Ojani Tom Lin Yoonsuh Kim Dylan Davidson Clarissa Chevalier Maury Bruhn Francis X. Altomare Dorin Smith Hannah Star Rogers
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
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Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2025

CONTRIBUTORS
Chakad Ojani
Tom Lin
Yoonsuh Kim
Dylan Davidson
Clarissa Chevalier
Maury Bruhn
Francis X. Altomare
Dorin Smith
Hannah Star Rogers
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The latest Open Access issue of Social Analysis has been published! Volume 68, issue 4: Anthropologies of Capture" Guest edited by Ana Chiritoiu and @chakadojani.bsky.social TOC and more here: mailchi.mp/berghahnbook... @socialanalysis.bsky.social
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The latest Open Access issue of Social Analysis has been published!
The latest OPEN ACCESS issue of Social Analysis has been published!
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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 16/07/2025
The article is available open access online here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... The entirety of Social Analysis 68(4) is available here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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