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Jun Zhou

@junzhou.bsky.social

500 followers 180 following 7 posts

phd candidate in sociology at University of Michigan political economy, gender, technology, labor, theory Mellon/ACLS dissertation innovation fellow she/they/cat person

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’m delighted to share this new publication. Writing it was unexpectedly emotional, amid the hype around AI companies claiming jobs will be replaced at historic scale. My answer is: technology alone does not replace people. Humans replace humans. Automation is a *valuation* problem.

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thanks Zizi!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

For Zohran,
You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail!
It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.
—Lu Hsun, “Hometown”

From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

congrats Jeff!!

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

RIP David Lynch. I cannot call myself a connoisseur or even really a fan but, like many, I will be chewing forever on the lessons from Twin Peaks that suggest truly eradicating sexual violence would mean transforming everything about our households, families, towns, nations, genders, and hearts.

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yes this is very much the idea of the photo—the blurring of productive and reproductive realms of life!

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The shop's owner is embedded in her business, living and working in the same small space where she eats, serves customers, and manages her trade. The photo reflects the blending of life and commerce in a setting where plastic blossoms may never witt, but the everyday hustle is as real as ever.

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Titled ““Between Petals and Profits,” I wrote: this photo captures a moment inside a plastic flower shop at Yiwu, the world's largest wholesale market, which attracts thousands of international buyers every year.

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Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ethnographers have to to take photos. Here is my photo displayed in a photo contest:

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