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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Jaja, imagined communities / Anderson. aber trotzdem, bin keine Freundin von Pieter Judson and seinen AnhängerInnen

Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Obnova ikonického Hotela Kyjev sa môže začať, projekt získal povolenie. Ako sa zmení jeho fasáda? | ASB.sk share.google/ADdpe6E8O8wl...

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So I sat down for an espresso at Cafe Trieste in Bratislava, and there it is right in front of me, the vacant hotel Kyjev

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Und danke für die Paketsteuer, die Geringverdienende und Frauen, die den Großteil der reproduktiven Arbeit leisten, überproportional treffen wird. Davon, dass sie die Inflation weiter anheizt, ganz zu schweigen.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What is going on with the EAHN site? eahn.org/lander

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have to correct, it is Lucica without a hatschek

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Modernist Housing in Komiža hinterland

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Firemen saving a cat from a "Gesimse", Wachauerhof, Vienna. I came too late to actually see the cat or the rescue operation. Lots and lots of people watching and filming.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Everything you read about DB is true. I am returning from Regensburg and I hereby pledge not to return anytime soon.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I book a seat in the quiet zone. A man with headphones on starts talking loudly, as soon as the train starts rolling. I say to him: what part of the quiet zone concept was lost on you? He stops. Getting older, less willing to tolerate inconsiderate fellow passengers.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

PS Das Buch vom Gumbrecht et al. habe ich auch (es gab damals wenig zu D'Annuzio), werde jetzt ein wenig lesen... Zu Interregnum nach Habsburg gibt es noch The Fiume Crisis von @dominiquereill.bsky.social

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wahrscheinlich fällt dies nach euren Kriterien unter Faschismus als Unterhaltung, aber für Rijeka Fans und alle, die ein wenig lachen wollen kann ich Fiume o Morte empfehlen (auch wenn es etwas oberflächtlich ist): www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

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Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup

Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

There was also a football match between Switzerland and Bosnia Herzegovina in the evening. I, too, noticed that venues without a tv had lots of spare seats (obseved in Spittelberg).

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It is remarkable, that all of former YU (except Croatia) + Bulgaria + Albania use the same library information system: Cobiss. Which is, btw, more intuitive for users then the Ex Libris platform (by Clarivate) used in Austria and Switzerland. www.cobiss.net

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COBISS.net

COBISS.net – Library information systems and research information systems network

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

we were allowed to take courses at Uni Graz, we read Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger, Eva Meyer, but on our own. I think this self-made studying is important, TU Graz also had student-managed studio culture (autonome Zeichensäle). Unis experience depends on informal learning and peers, in some fields

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You could learn more practical skills as an apprentice, but studying architecture (at least in my time) meant philosophy (PoMo), politics, activism, and redefining the making of architecture. It’s more regulated now, though some still do this.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Funders require open access for everything, including images, and often accept only CC BY. Archives, rights holders, and stricter EU copyright rules are limiting what can be reproduced. Researchers bear the brunt. This affects research that depends on historical images the most.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What is this supposed to be? A parade of widely touted big academic names and stararchitects that has absolutely nothing to do with the UIA’s humanist, and non-elitist traditions. At least the ticket price is reasonable. uia2026bcn.org/congress-ses...

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Congress Sessions schedue - World Congress of Architects. Barcelona

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Ich kann dir (als ex-Berliner) diesen mit Vinzenzo Latronico sehr empfehlen: open.spotify.com/episode/00Xg... (Das Roman von Latronico sowieso.)

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Vincenzo Latronico

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So proud of myself. Converted djvu files into jpegs then into PDF. A book by Ignaz Felbiger from 1783. Used IrfanView batch converter (be sure to enable djvu add-on) and then Acrobat. (I am working on schools 1945-1979, but sometimes I just have to go down the rabbit holes of the 18th century)

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

PS: commiseration, it's certainly not easy to be young during the current era. I really like your obsessions with specific topics, great to see that not all generations coming after gen X are so keen on commodifying everything. Lep pozdrav z Dunaja.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

From what I vaguely remember: hysteria changed over time, from wandering uterus (hence the name) over those fainting women to anorexia. Von Braun's main point: the men described the symptoms, the women acted them out.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Everybody applauding Dario Amodei and Anthropic on not crossing the red lines. But then why is using Claude for mass surveillance of non-US citizens acceptable? This utilization seems OK for Anthropic.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

with regard to anthropic / US gov / OpenAI, maybe time to revisit Aramis www.bruno-latour.fr/node/106

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Aramis or the Love of Technology | bruno-latour.fr

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Symptoms of hysteria changed significantly over centuries. Christine von Braun wrote a book about this phenomenon. Perhaps also applicable to long covid... Not sure if the book is available in English. www.christinavonbraun.de/_buecher/nic...

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Christina von Braun: Nicht Ich. Logik Lüge Libido

Informationen zu dem Buch Nicht Ich. Logik Lüge Libido

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

TBH - the first article has much better contextualization and analysis, and has a plausible structure/scope. For me such publishing practices are not quite ethical. I am aware that many scholars are under pressure to publish.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

And there is more. One of the authors published an earlier article, where most of the material was already discussed, this is why the second article is such an oddly puzzled-together piece. (also highlighting *Croatian" architects). hpa.unibo.it/article/view...

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Tracing the Non-Aligned Architecture: Environments of Technical Cooperation and the Work of Croatian Architects in Kumasi, Ghana (1961-1970) | Histories of Postwar Architecture

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... FFS: it was socialist Yugoslavia! Did these authors research the family trees of all the YU architects working in Africa? Otherwise solid scholarship

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A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia: Planning Perspectives: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

you mean clueless pro censorship folks like this? Oh and btw IWM's Krastev is hosting a get together with Yarvin. www.youtube.com/live/fVFwiqZ...

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VĚRA JOUROVÁ: Democracies Under Stress

YouTube video by IWMVienna

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Mischa Glenny "This is about regulation, about content,uh about what society thinks it's acceptable for people to engage in in terms of uh speech and so on and so on and so forth." That's called censorship, Mr. Glenny. youtu.be/fVFwiqZBz-4?...

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VĚRA JOUROVÁ: Democracies Under Stress

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Mellon debate - it is important to see the flaws and unintended consequences of competitive grants (incl. EU-funded). Recommend Gerald Schweiger's research on this dilemma: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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