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Julia Schubert @juliaschubert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Das Buch ist da! Ganz vielen Dank an unsere Autor*innen, die das möglich gemacht haben. Ich freu mich riesig, dass die schönen Beiträge pünktlich zur Semesterpause aus der Box sind! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social

Plakat der Adorno-Vorlesungen in orange-weiß mit den Infos wie im Post.

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Das war so eine wunderbare Diskussion gestern – fünf Stunden intensives, gemeinsames Nachdenken über Kybernetik und Kritik. Danke an alle, die da waren – ganz besonders an @olebogner.bsky.social, @vkluzik.bsky.social und @josefbarla.bsky.social für die erhellenden Kommentare und die Organisation!

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Am 21.5. findet @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social ein Workshop zu meinem Buch Kybernetik und Kritik (@suhrkamp.de) statt, u.a. mit @olebogner.bsky.social, @vkluzik.bsky.social und Josef Barla. Mehr Infos hier, Anmeldung bis zum 7.5.: www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/bu...

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Franziska von Verschuer @franziskavv.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Nächsten Mittwoch stelle ich mein Buch an der Goethe Uni vor! Ich freue mich auf das Gespräch mit der wunderbaren @vkluzik.bsky.social

Poster announcing a book launch, showing the book „Collecting seeds, assembling worlds“ by Franziska von Verschuer, cover photo shows the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in a snowy mountainscape, the photo extends as negative on the poster.

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Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congratulations! I’m really looking forward to reading it.

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Franziska von Verschuer @franziskavv.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Ready for holiday time after I submitted my book manuscript to @transcript-verlag.bsky.social today! 🥳 So excited that „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ will be published this year - and with such a fantastic cover (photo by Mari Tefre)

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Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds

If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📣 FIXING FUTURES - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 📣 We are excited to announce that the exhibition ‘Fixing Futures - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ will take place at MGGU (Museum Giersch of the Goethe University) from 5 April to 31 August 2025! (1/5)

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Julia Schubert @juliaschubert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I did something different and worked on an exhibition (with lots of fantastic people!) for a change. "Fixing Futures: Planetare Zukünfte zwischen Spekulationen und Kontrolle" will open on April 5 at Museum Giersch in Frankfurt. Come by if you are in town!

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Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Im Philosophie-Podcast „Geister“ haben @frieder-vogelmann.net und ich über unseren Reader „Feministische Epistemologien“ @suhrkamp.de gesprochen. 🎧💖 Z.B. hier: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...

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Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Heute Abend in Frankfurt die Abschiedsvorlesung von Sarah Speck:

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Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’m excited to share my new article, “Making death through producing life: Necrovalue and the political economy of death,” now available open access in BioSocieties: link.springer.com/article/10.1... It explores metabolic death work in animals and the valorization of death itself.

An image of the first page of the article, containing the abstract. The abstract reads as follows: "This article explores how advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering transform the relationship between life and death under contemporary biocapitalism. Discussing two cases of synthetically produced mosquitoes designed to combat vector-borne diseases by targeting their own species, the article contends that these organisms function not only as (lively) commodities but also as metabolically working bodies. These mosquitoes, as the article shows, engage in a specific form of labor, termed ‘metabolic death work,’ which aims at the eradication of fellow members of their species, thereby generating a unique form of value, introduced as ‘necrovalue.’ Complementing the notion of ‘biovalue,’ the concept of necrovalue highlights how death is reimagined as a site of value production in molecular biology and beyond. By applying these concepts to the analysis of the two cases of synthetically produced organisms, this article shows how death enters the realm of the political economy in novel ways as capital gains full control over the metabolic and reproductive capacities of engineered life forms."

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌊Troubling waters – mehr-als-menschliche Meere‘ - Gespräch und Performances🌊 In der Mittwochsbar „Wetter Mi.“ im SCAPE° dreht sich am 4. Dezember um 18:30 Uhr alles um das Meer: Ein interdisziplinäres Ensemble erkundet, wie wir in Beziehung zum Meer und damit verbundenen Lebensformen stehen. (1/3)

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vicky kluzik @vkluzik.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Morgen!

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I created a starter pack for people interested in all things social and sociological theory and theorizing. Let me know if I should add anyone. go.bsky.app/ByNfpie

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Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Exciting opportunity for those curious about how (and whose) futures are made and unmade – from a broad STS perspective. Our RTG "Fixing Futures" is offering 8 PhD positions (75% part-time, 4 years) at Goethe Univ. Two weeks left to apply! Details below. Questions? Reach out: info@fixingfutures.eu

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New Doctoral Researcher Positions RTG „Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies“ – Fixing Futures

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

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Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

We’re thrilled to pre-announce 8 new doctoral researcher positions (4 years) in our DFG research training group "Fixing Futures" at Goethe University Frankfurt starting May 1, 2025. Stay tuned for more infos! fixingfutures.eu #PhD #Research #FixingFutures #JoinUs

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

📢 We kindly invite you to our next public lecture on 'Climate Changed Futures: On Anticipatory Action in the Climate Emergency', offered by Prof. Ben Anderson on Tuesday, 2. July 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107. (1/4⤵️)

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Josef Barla @josefbarla.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Marco Tamborini and I are very excited to announce our symposium „Living techno-natures: biohybrid objects, life, and technology“ at Goethe University on March 7. With many wonderful talks. Keynote lecture: Henry Dicks (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) #biomimicry, #Philosophy, #technology, #STS

Poster of the symposium "Living techno-natures: biohybrid objects, life, and technology". Venue: Casino building, room 1.811, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 7 March 2024. Talks by Julia Rijssenbeek, Marco Tamborini, Josef Barla, Christoph Hubatschke, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Louisa Estadieu, Fiorella Battaglia, Steven Monserrate Gonzalez, Dominika Lisy, and Hannah Link.

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Franziska von Verschuer @franziskavv.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

CfP for EASST/4S 2024 in Amsterdam Together with @josefbarla.bsky.social I am hosting a panel on **Un/making more-than-human death and loss** Find the full abstract & contribute a paper here: t.co/6BgLVnDqsU

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