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Edward Jones-Imhotep

@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social
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Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social
Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.
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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Professor @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social ’s The Broken Machine explores how technological breakdown, from railway accidents to Cold War malfunctions, shaped ideas about social order, responsibility, and the modern self. An open-access book from @mitpress.bsky.social 📚 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now also a paid part-time *graduate student* internship @ Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics working on American Women's History Museum project to make scientific work of 19th-& early 20th-century women more findable & accessible Deadline: October 5, 2026 #HPS www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a...
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Graduate Student Research Intern | History of Women in Science - Cambridge, MA 02138 - Indeed.com
Apply for the Graduate Student Research Intern | History of Women in Science job in Cambridge, MA! Learn more about the job description, salary, and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians
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A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World
The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm very lucky to have had my book included in @mitpress.bsky.social's 2026 Direct to Open initiative, which helps make research openly available worldwide. So glad to see the new cycle just announced and hope to see more libraries join. mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...
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The MIT Press thanks its library partners for a successful 2026 with Direct to Open (D2O) and looks ahead to the next funding cycle image
Direct to Open is the MIT Press's bold, innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge.
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Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a brilliant new book by @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New PSA @philsci.bsky.social newsletter is out: *International Syllabus Award 🌎 *PSA Philosophy of Science & Race Prize (due June 15‼️) *PSA26 UPSS Session *PSA26 Outreach & Engagement Award *PSA Election 🗳️ *PSA Travel Grants for graduate students ✈️ & more... #philsci mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...
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Philosophy of science from diverse standpoints
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2. PSA26 Travel Grants
3. PSA26 General Updates
4. PSA26 Calls for Awards
5. AAAS/SciLine Media Training Workshop
6. PSA Elections
7. Philosophers of Science at Work: Exploring Non-Academic Careers
8. Upcoming Events
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open platform. You can access it here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... #sts #histtech #histsci
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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Congratulations to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on the publication of his new book with @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉 Even better: the book is available open access! We invite you all to explore this exciting research. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Riddle me this, #histSTM friends: How is a guillotine like a Gantt chart? A: They are both case studies featured in @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social's new examination of technological breakdowns & the politics of the self, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social! #histsci #histtech #STS #booksky 🗃️⚙️📜
Execution of Louis XVI of Franceon 21 January 1793, from an English engraving of 1798.

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Gantt chart showing activities planned to be undertaken at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at Marshall Space Flight Center. (Feb. 1967)

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self - @mitpress.bsky.social, May 2026 (print and open access) mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social
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The Broken Machine
The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep rev...
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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This looks *fantastic*! Can’t wait to dig in, big congrats @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social
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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sounds like a fun but thoughtful read for my business history colleagues.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self reveals how machines breaking down shaped modern identity and values in the Atlantic World: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Holy heck the way we just got excited about the blurb alone here at ye olde Mark Twain House.
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you're not yet a mentee in the Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Mentoring Program & interested in developing talk to submit for UPSS Session at PSA Meeting, please request a mentor by June 1st, so time to be paired & work with a mentor: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HPS
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Author copies have arrived! In The Broken Machine, I explore what happens when our technologies break. Drawing on five episodes from the modern Atlantic World, I argue that breakdowns have historically helped define who belongs to the social order and who's outside it. #histtech #histsci #HistSTM
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
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NOT For SALE

SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF
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PUSH AMERICA
TOWARD FREEDOM

SARAH J. JACKSON

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 275 (5/10/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, shar...
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.
Book cover with aerial photograph showing an oblique aerial view of the city of Paris, picturing the avanue du Bois du Boulogne and the Arc de Triomphe. The surface of the photograph is annotated in red and black ink. The book title and author appear in white serif font: Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts, by Emily Doucet .
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My new book — The Broken Machine — officially drops on May 19! Available for pre-order now. @mitpress.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...
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The Broken Machine
The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep rev...
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Looking forward to speaking at Princeton next month as part of the Intersections Working Group @princetonenglish.bsky.social. I'll be previewing some material from the new graphic novel I'm developing with @mitpress.bsky.social .... english.princeton.edu/events/black...
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The Black Androids: Writing the Technological Underground
Join Edward Jones-Imhotep, in conversation with Adriana Green, to discuss his newest book project “The Black Androids” and its adaptation into a graphic novel.Currently in development with MIT Press, ...
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Hannah Tardie @delay7.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
i have been doing electronics repair for a few years now and want to open it up as a service beyond my immediate community. 🌬️🫧💿 (long thread incoming)
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Very exited to be giving this keynote next month, where I'll be talking about my new book, The Broken Machine (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...)
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Congrats to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on becoming co-editor of the Inside Technology series by @mitpress.bsky.social! Check out our curated list of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts related to the series ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/profess...
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Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep Joins Inside Technology as Co-Editor
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/03/2025
Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️
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“Living Fossils”: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt
Abstract. This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This award-winning study examines how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. "The Unreliable Nation" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Unreliable Nation, out in paperback today. U.S. threats to Canadian sovereignty, against the backdrop of Soviet expansionism … told as a history of nature and technology and in the early Cold War. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...
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The Unreliable Nation
Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technolog...
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Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me · 11/03/2025
Bay Area! I'll be giving work at both Berkeley and Stanford this week. @Stanford: "Computing, Intimately," which will be a hands-on demo of my programming language, Ludus, with a pre-circulated paper of mine about "computational transitional objects." shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...
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Scott Richmond | Computing, Intimately: On Computational Transitional Objects | Stanford Humanities Center
Digital Aesthetics Workshop
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...
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Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
So saddened to hear about the passing of Nicolas Nova @nicolasnova.bsky.social. I never met him in person, but was lucky enough to contribute to his wonderful special edition on failure in Techniques & Culture, "En cas de panne." editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv.... So brilliant and so kind.
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Les Éditions de l'EHESS: En cas de panne
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François Saltiel @francoissaltiel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Ma contribution sur @franceculture.fr pour rendre hommage à Nicolas Nova. Un chercheur brillant, connaisseur curieux de nos mondes connectés. Il avait 47 ans et venait d’achever son ouvrage « Persistance du merveilleux », un essai qui éclaire le petit peuple fabuleux de nos machines ✨Tristesse👇
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I wrote about what the current fascination with the icy far north means in this moment back in 2016; it seems relevant again. aeon.co/essays/what-...
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What lies beneath the ice of our fascination with the North? | Aeon Essays
The top of the globe has always meant fantasy, myth, adventure. What explains the icy northern grip on our imagination?
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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"The only AI I want to discuss is ancestral intelligence—the insights, experiences, and wisdom that grow under the rubble of progress." An incredible essay from @ruha9.bsky.social on the insidious philosophies that power AI evangelism. Must read 👇🏾 lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Gross as this is, this feels like an effort to replace the labor of influencers crucial to the social media economy. Automating content creation through AI bots and another episode in the long sordid history of Black automata Edward Jones-Imhotep is studying. (His forthcoming book is so necessary).
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Thanks for the shout-out! For anyone interested, this piece in @wired.com gives a fuller picture. From the amazing @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social . www.wired.com/story/histor...
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The History—and Disturbing Resurrection—of Black Androids
When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Tesla bot, it evoked a racist phenomenon dating back to the 18th century.
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”
Elegant woman seated with a book in her lap gazing at the viewer.
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Tiffany Nichols, JD, PhD @tiffanynichols.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Really enjoyed the lively conversation tonight at the Yale Hist & Phil of Physics Working Group about my latest article in @hsnatsci.bsky.social on the blurring of field and laboratory with precision instruments like LIGO's interferometers! Article available here: online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Discerning Signal from Noise in the Expanded Laboratory Environment
What happens when disturbances in precision measurement instruments are indecipherable to physicists despite extensive review of the instruments and their outputs? How do physicists parse instrument o...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Recordings of talks from the conference Pragmatism & the Philosophy of Science held at Rotman Institute at Western U Sept 2024 are now on Youtube! Here's my talk on "The Geodetic & Metrological Roots of C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatism" if you're interested... #HPS #pragmatism #Peirce #geodesy #metrology
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Pragmatism & The Philosophy of Science: Fall 2024 Conference - Alisa Bokulich
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Outstanding thread on the little-known origins of African studies in Europe.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...
A graphic with a purple background that is an image of a grey sphere landing in a net. Beneath this is a chartreuse bar with black lettering: Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Welcome to bsky the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Uni of Toronto! #HPS @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
Bsky profile for Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at U of Toronto
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fantastic open access article on the history & historiography of technology in modern South Asia by @amandazillo.bsky.social (which I had a small part in bringing to publication). She invites us to rethink hierarchies of technical authority and the notion of “vernacular” technical knowledge.
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Absolutely brilliant piece by Fara Dabhoiwala in @londonreview.bsky.social on the polymath Francis Williams. You'll never see this portrait, or the history of 18th-century science, the same way again. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"There is little distinction between our world and that of nonhumans. We all share the same breath. I am the mint tea, the bawena, that Grandma used to offer to soothe my ailing."
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Grandma’s ‘Bawena’: On the Kinship of Plants and People
My family introduced me not only to plant knowledge but also to a frame through which I place myself into my environment and universe.
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