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Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gentle reminder: send pitches for our third volume of Predictions down the aether. When #AI writing overruns the publishing sphere, we hit back with imaginative, human writing; have some fun and join our collective. 👇 ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...

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Prediction_Volume 3 Open Call for Submissions.pdf

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Send a pitch (max 250 words) until Nov 5. Let us know if you have any questions.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Vol. 1 (Open Access), check out the website of Mattering Press: www.matteringpress.org/books/predic... For the Call for Submission in full length, read this document (hosted on a university cloud): ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Vol. 3 of Predictions, we’re looking for texts that focus on prediction markets, betting and gambling, surveillance pricing, and other aspects of capitalism, technofeudalism and fascism.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In doing so, we challenge a dominant form of power of our (digital, rationalistic, fossil-fuel-based) era and test what happens when we flip it on its head.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Call for Submissions! Predictions is a short series edited by Mél Hogan, Stefan Laser and Edward Ongweso Jr. in which we ask critical thinkers to play with the form of the prediction. #openaccess #sts #predictions

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here are some impressions from our book launch at #EASST2026 yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came by! You can read Predictions (Vol. I) here: www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Celebrate with us at EASST2026!🥂 We are happy to announce our new publication Predictions (Vol. I) and invite you to meet authors and editors and join us for a toast! -> 1pm -> at our stall in the main library, right by the registration area

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're at @easst.bsky.social 2026! Meet us & our books at our stall in the main library!📚

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All our books are open access! You can download for free here: www.matteringpress.org/books/an-ant...

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An Anthropology of Common Ground: Awkward Encounters in Heritage Work

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

... might be noticed and supported and about how empirical research is done as relations between what is going on in the field and the way that the ethnographer chooses to tell the story of the field in the text.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Common ground, then, is not only an ideal of the joint heritage project, but an expression of an anthropological ambition. In consequence, the book is an account of a particular ethnographic research project – the ‘methods story’ being about how post-colonial relations ...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

... ‘inconclusive’ analyses, collaboratively generated in the course of the project work and in the process of writing ethnographically about it. The ambition is to nurture fieldwork as an opportunity for creating a common ground, on which to think about what heritage and ethnography could be.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paying attention to details and ‘small stories’ as that which make worlds (heritage projects as well as ethnography), the book proposes a kind of postcolonial scholarship. Rather than uncovering or building up one story about the Danish-Ghanaian past, the work insists on providing ...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time showcasing: An Anthropology of Common Ground. Awkward Encounters in Heritage New York (2018) by Nathalia Brichet. #openaccess #scienceandtechnologystudies #anthropology #postcolonial

Book cover: "An Anthropology of Common Ground. Awkward Encounters in Heritage New York (2018) by Nathalia Brichet"

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Inventing the Social

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

... timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Presenting projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up ...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, it provides pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in new ways.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Inventing the Social showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Moving on to: Inventing the Social (2018) Edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie. #openaccess #scienceandtechnology #social

Book cover: "Inventing the social (2018)"

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Authored by Andy Boucher, Bill Gaver, Tobie Kerridge, Mike Michael, Liliana Ovalle, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez & Alex Wilkie.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All our books are open access! You can download for free here: www.matteringpress.org/books/energy...

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Energy Babble

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This book tells the story of the Babbles from a mix of design and STS perspectives, suggesting how design may benefit from the perspectives of STS, and how STS may take an interventionist, design-led approach to the study of emerging technological issues.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, provide information, encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about current energy demand and production, and comments entered by other Babble users.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next up: Energy Babble (2018)

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Modes of Knowing: Resources from the Baroque

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It also involved knowing in ways that did not gather into a single point and knew itself to be performative. As part of a great Western division between rationalist and non-rationalist modes of knowing, the baroque is therefore a possible resource for creating ways of knowing differently.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One answer is that the baroque made space for and fostered many forms of otherness. It involved knowing things differently, extravagantly, excessively, and in materially heterogeneous ways, and it apprehended that which is other and could not be caught in a cognitive or symbolic net.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They are all more or less uneasy with the restrictions or the agendas implied by academic modes of knowing, and they have chosen to do this by working with, through, or against one important Western alternative — that of the baroque. Why the baroque?

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How might we think differently? This book is an attempt to respond to this question. Its contributors are all interested in non-standard modes of knowing.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Our fourth book: Modes of Knowing. Resources from the Baroque (2016) Edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert.

Book cover: "Modes of Knowing. Resources from the Baroque (2016) Edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert."

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Imagining Classrooms: Stories of Children, Teaching, and Ethnography

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We wonder about the implications of these habits for good knowing and good doing. At the same time, the book shines a critical lens onto the imaginative practices of ethnographers and participant-observers, to help us think about how we define, how we class, and how we analyse our data.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What we notice are habits of imagining being instilled and these range from getting children to close their eyes and imagine accurate representations, through to getting them to imagine how others feel, to getting children to make new connections between thoughts and feelings.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The book’s characters are children and teachers, with teachers working through the school day to give children the skills they will need to think, to think with and about others, and to be creative.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘special’ children.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imagination is being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Next: Imagining Classrooms. Stories of children, teaching and ethnography (2016) by Vicki Macknight. #openaccess #sts

Book cover: "Imagining Classrooms. Stories of children, teaching and ethnography (2016) by Vicki Macknight."

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

By Franck Cochoy. Translation: Jaciara T. Lira. All our books are open access! You can download for free here: www.matteringpress.org/books/on-cur...

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On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Available in English for the first time, this major work will arouse readers’ curiosity over the course of its colourful journey. By the end, now better informed and more cautious, they will be able to identify the traps of which they are the target. So long as curiosity is kept at bay, at least!

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cochoy invites us to take a sociological trip into these cabinets of curiosity, accompanied throughout by Bluebeard, a fairy tale that is both a model of the genre and a pure curiosity machine.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Curiosity is one of the favourite tricks of market seduction. Capturing a public — attracting the attention of a reader, seducing a customer, persuading a voter ... — often requires the construction of a set of technical devices that can play upon people’s inner motivations.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What draws us towards a shop window display? What drives us to grab a special offer, to enter the privileged circle of premium newspaper subscribers, to peruse the pages of an enticing magazine?

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. This time: On Curiosity. The Art of Market Seduction (2016) by Franck Cochoy.

Book cover: "On Curiosity. The Art of Market Seduction (2016) by Franck Cochoy.

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková. All our books are open access! You can download for free here: www.matteringpress.org/books/practi...

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons.

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