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Kate Maddalena

@katemadd.bsky.social
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Rhet of Sci&Tech + STS + media theory University of Toronto Mississauga

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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please buy our "delicious rhetorical romp of a book" for some (albeit abject) "jouissance." (thanks for the blurb, Cristina) Promotion code: BAMA
Now Available! Disgustatory! by Jeremy Tirrell and Kate Maddalena, from University of Alabama Press
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Come Trip Out! with us @utm.utoronto.ca in March!!!!
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ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join the ICCIT from March 4-5 for Trip Out!, our third annual graduate-faculty research symposium. This year, invited scholars and graduate students will consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcomi...
Trip Out! Symposium. Media and Altered States, March 4th and 5th, 2026. University of Toronto Mississauga. Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The long-awaited new issue of POROI is out from @rhetstm.bsky.social, including my article about psychotropic drugs in wellness discourses! The article is timely because it critiques a certain kind of masculine subjectivity that's, um, in the news rn: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...
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“Smart drugs,” Gender, and the Rhetorical Turning
<p class="MsoNormal">This article uses the example of nootropics—a flexible term that capitalizes on the flexibility of the brain—as a category to describe how seemingly oppositional tropes, or turns,...
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I just came back on here to show off my book with Jeremy Tirrell, coming out this summer from U of Alabama Press. (I wonder if anybody still sees me. Is anybody here?) www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736262...
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Disgustatory!
A critical exploration of how Gothic tropes infiltrate wellness discourse, revealing the rhetorical forces behind our cultural obsession with food, health, a...
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We’re hiring! Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025. More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
pre-order link via @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/reco...
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Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context
cover image for Reconsidering Reparations, featuring small black hands planting a seedling. Text of the cover: "Reconsidering Reparations
Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. With a new preface by the author."
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Colleen Derkatch @colleenderkatch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Excited to speak on "How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways" at @uoft.bsky.social's Dalla Lana School of Public Health for their Health Inc series. Join us! Wednesday 12-1 ET on Zoom. Register below. www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-the-id...
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How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways
Why wellness sells: How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways
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Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com · 03/03/2025
I'll be presenting a theory pill at the Space Out! symposium this Thursday! Stop by if you want to hear me ramble on about street furniture and public space in Toronto. 🛰️🇨🇦📚
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm ashamed of the US right now. (Often, even always, but acutely today.)
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come Space Out! with us at UTM next week!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/02/2025
If you are taking inspiration from movements *please study them.* 20th Century Civil rights organizers were very hard core about security. You should be too. Here's some very basic guidance -- I don't know who made this site, but it checks out -- infosecforactivists.org
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Infosec 101 for Activists
Website: https://infosecforactivists.org/ Introduction America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and indigenous uprisings even before the founding of the United States. ...
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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 21/02/2025
@eff.org also has a great resource on surveillance self-defense that is better to engage BEFORE you start any activities/relationships that could be criminalized: ssd.eff.org
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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excellent data journalism: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Problem With FIRE’s Data
Their influential rankings are based on faulty information.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
badass PhD spot:
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
And they say there's no need for TechComm in STS...
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Holy shit, tho. I would never, ever, ever want this to happen to me? and at the same time I am kinda jealous of this guy
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R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at @thenewschool.bsky.social is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program. Apply by Feb 28, 2025: platform.coop/blog/open-ca... cc: @nssrnews.bsky.social @netzpolitik.bsky.social
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Open Call for Applications: The 2025-2026 ICDE Fellowship Program | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School invites applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program, a leading opportunity for scholars researching cooperatives…
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
OMG Robert Garcia 😆💙
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wikipedia is getting ready to extend anonymity features to protect editors/authors in the US (as it does other editors/authors in similar totalitarian regimes).
Editing Wikipedia is not a crime.
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Casey Kelly @surplusenjoyment.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New book dropping in May with University of Alabama press
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jdj @jeremydavidjohnson.com · 11/02/2025
My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂 www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...
Cover image for book Algorithmic Worldmaking: The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order by Jeremy David Johnson. To its right, text reads: "Algorithmic Worldmaking is an ambitious and imaginative research project that explores the impact of algorithms on cultural life. It is well done and compellingly written." -E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique!
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I wonder if the ads he bought are funny. I wonder if they have the Clydesdales in them. "Big strong beery horses don't need help. They help themselves." [galloping sounds]
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"To understand [right-wing adoption of ugly-ass AI art], we must consider the right’s hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism."
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"Socialist start-up incubators." Let's go. Please.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025
Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
YEP. It's because WIRED understands this moment is a media/technology/culture problem all the way down. Techbros are the turtles.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
okay but how do I get the old Outlook interface back just like it was y'all this shit is gonna ruin me
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Okay but maybe it's good for something.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
TL/DR: first move of fascism is to remove minority interest from legal existence at the level of technical/legal documentation. The US academy needs to find a way to collectively refuse to expunge this language from funding proposals. "First they came for the grant proposals, and I said nothing."
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Multiple friends in the US in the sciences "to keep our funding, we have to expunge EDI language from our grant proposals." Please read Steven Katz (1992), "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust" www.jstor.org/stable/378062
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The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust on JSTOR
Steven B. Katz, The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust, College English, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Mar., 1992), pp. 255-275
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Maybe this'll be how we get beyond economic models of property LOL.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We should have a "talk like you talk to your pet all day at work" day.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trying to figure out what to do, substantively, with care, for my colleagues in the US working with/towards federal funding. If anyone has good conduits for action, please recommend them.
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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
teen vogue is one of the last remaining bastions of the fourth estate and i'm so serious about that
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...
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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hmm looks like teaching critical refusal could work...
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Richard R. John @rrjohnr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Announcing an open search for a position in Columbia’s Ph. D. program in communications “We are particularly interested in candidates pursuing pioneering research agendas in:  Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media….” apply.interfolio.com/162364
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective's "Statement on the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza" is now OPEN ACCESS through February! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
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A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Abstract. Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the f
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a thing I am learning. At first I felt invisible, but then I realized that reposts and quotes are the way to rebuild a sense of the dopamine-hit-giving network I miss so much.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA.
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Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is the simple formula to convert celsius to farenheit I really don't see what all of the fuss is about (not).
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