Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Please buy our "delicious rhetorical romp of a book" for some (albeit abject) "jouissance." (thanks for the blurb, Cristina) Promotion code: BAMA 000
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Come Trip Out! with us @utm.utoronto.ca in March!!!! 020
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Join 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... 032
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaKate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The 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...pubs.lib.uiowa.edu“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,... 011
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I 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...uapress.ua.eduDisgustatory!A critical exploration of how Gothic tropes infiltrate wellness discourse, revealing the rhetorical forces behind our cultural obsession with food, health, a... 001
Reposted by Kate Maddalenasfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 03/03/2025We’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/... 025
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025pre-order link via @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/reco...bookshop.orgReconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and ColonialismWhy Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism 34410
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025the 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 11833177
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaColleen Derkatch @colleenderkatch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Excited 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...eventbrite.caHow the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible waysWhy wellness sells: How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways 033
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaMathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com · 03/03/2025I'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. 🛰️🇨🇦📚 001
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025Welcome 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 289114575402
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I'm ashamed of the US right now. (Often, even always, but acutely today.) 020
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/02/2025If 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.orginfosecforactivists.orgInfosec 101 for ActivistsWebsite: 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. ... 24908372
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaKenji @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.orgssd.eff.orgSurveillance Self-DefenseWe’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... 713148
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Excellent data journalism: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...chronicle.comOpinion | The Problem With FIRE’s DataTheir influential rankings are based on faulty information. 010
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025And they say there's no need for TechComm in STS... 020
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Holy 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 000
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaR. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The 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.socialplatform.coopOpen Call for Applications: The 2025-2026 ICDE Fellowship Program | Platform Cooperativism ConsortiumThe 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… 12214
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaKate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique! 011
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage. 218150162455
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Wikipedia is getting ready to extend anonymity features to protect editors/authors in the US (as it does other editors/authors in similar totalitarian regimes). 000
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaCasey Kelly @surplusenjoyment.bsky.social · 17/12/2024New book dropping in May with University of Alabama press 23410
Reposted by Kate Maddalenajdj @jeremydavidjohnson.com · 11/02/2025My 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... 12311
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I 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] 010
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." 010
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025"Socialist start-up incubators." Let's go. Please. 031
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025Every 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 662820760
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025YEP. It's because WIRED understands this moment is a media/technology/culture problem all the way down. Techbros are the turtles. 092
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025okay but how do I get the old Outlook interface back just like it was y'all this shit is gonna ruin me 000
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025TL/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." 010
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Multiple 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/378062jstor.orgThe Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust on JSTORSteven B. Katz, The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust, College English, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Mar., 1992), pp. 255-275 000
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Maybe this'll be how we get beyond economic models of property LOL. 000
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025We should have a "talk like you talk to your pet all day at work" day. 020
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Trying 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. 000
Reposted by Kate Maddalenamichelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 28/01/2025teen vogue is one of the last remaining bastions of the fourth estate and i'm so serious about that 012423
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Academic 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...form.jotform.comJoin researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIHPlease click the link to complete this form. 16520404
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hmm looks like teaching critical refusal could work... 030
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaRichard R. John @rrjohnr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Announcing 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/162364apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 062
Reposted by Kate MaddalenaA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective's "Statement on the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza" is now OPEN ACCESS through February! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.orgA statement on the ongoing genocide in GazaAbstract. Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the f 0139
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This 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. 081
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA. 316550
Kate Maddalena @katemadd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is the simple formula to convert celsius to farenheit I really don't see what all of the fuss is about (not). 000