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Matthäus Rest

@mattrest.bsky.social
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peasant / anthropologist / antifascist: milk & microbes, ancient DNA & energy infrastructures, Himalayas & Alps, working at Uni Fribourg & roadsides.net

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Erik Marquardt @erik-marquardt.eu · 23/09/2026
Wirklich beeindruckend und lehrreich, wie viele, die sich als „die bürgerliche Mitte“™️ des Landes begreifen, schulterzuckend rechtsextreme Regierungsbeteiligungen hinnehmen würden und jetzt nach der Berlinwahl durchdrehen, als wären sie ein Pavianhügel auf Crack.
Screenshot eines BILD-Artikels. Roter Obertitel: „Kommentar von BILD-Chefin Marion Horn“. Schwarze Überschrift: „Wann begreifen die endlich, dass die Brandmauer nur die AfD schützt?“ Darunter ein Foto: Vor einem Gebäude mit Säulen bauen Demonstrierende auf einer Treppe eine Mauer aus Pappkartons. In roter Schrift steht darauf „Wir sind die Brandmauer“, in schwarzer Schrift darunter Wörter wie „Frei“, „Demokratie“, „Menschlichkeit“ und „Würde des Menschen“. Ein Mann in dunkler Jacke hebt gerade einen Karton an, links steht eine Person im beigen Mantel.Screenshot eines BILD-Artikels. Roter Obertitel: „Standpunkt von BILD-Chefredakteurin Marion Horn“. Schwarze Überschrift: „SPD und Grüne dürfen mit diesen Berliner Linken noch nicht mal verhandeln“. Darunter ein Porträtfoto einer Frau mit langen schwarzen Haaren und Pony vor dunklem Hintergrund mit roten Lichtstreifen. Sie blickt ernst zur Seite, im Vordergrund ist unscharf eine weitere Person zu sehen.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/09/2026
“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-of-…
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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ellebil @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tag 2 nach der Wahl. Berlin ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Dahlem liegt das dumpfe Schluchzen der Eigentümer. Im Westen stauen sich SUVs mit hastig verladenem kulturellem Kapital. Erste Augenzeugen berichten von bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Wie konnte man es nur so weit kommen lassen? Ein Lagebericht.
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Moritz Hürtgen @moritzhuertgen.de · 14/09/2026
Sie wird uns mit 1000 Varianten des gleichen Textes zu Tode langweilen
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+ Die KI löscht die Menschheit aus? Wie das konkret passieren könnte
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Markus Huber @mhuber.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Eva Dichand hat also ein Geburtstagsgeschenk für ihren Freund Sebastian, das wir mit ein bisschen Qualitätspresseförderung auf X sponsoren dürfen. Das ist nur konsequent.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In retrospect, when Americans sincerely believed that J Lo had the biggest butt in the world, I should have known that this country would fall for anything.
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Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs ersucht um Ihre Aufmerksamkeit zum Zwecke einer tatsächlichen Berichtigung.
Screenshot FPÖ-Website mit "WIDERRUF: Die FPÖ Bundespartei hat die falsche Behauptung aufgestellt und verbreitet, das Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes sei eine 
pseudowissenschaftliche Institution. Diese Behauptung wird hiermit als 
unwahr widerrufen. Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs."
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. #infrastructures #sts #anthropology www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" (Roadsides Journal)
Roadsides' Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" edited by Sophie Elixhauser, Anna-Maria Walter published in Spring 2026. This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds...
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Cathrin Kahlweit @ckahlweit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Claudia Bauer aka das reaktionäre Aushängeschild der österreichischen Bundesregierung streicht Fördermittel für Zara - und man fragt sich: wem will diese Koalition etwas beweisen? Frauenhassern? Gewalttätern? Der FPÖ? Es ist ein Trauerspiel.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/04/2026
Tell the truth and get fired.
Christopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but
he didn't imagine that they were there for him. 
It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the university's ties to slavery across three centuries. He completed his project on Friday, 26 July, and on Monday, he said he received an email that HR wanted to meet with him.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our collection Cryosphere is coming! This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Stefan Kappacher @kappachers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
„Die Zumutung beginnt dort, wo ein Nein als Gesprächseinstieg behandelt wird.“ Ein Must-Read von @barbarablaha.bsky.social www.moment.at/story/fall-u...
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Fall Ulmen und Co: Wie sollen wir euch noch lieben?
Wie soll Liebe im Patriarchat noch möglich sein? Diese Frage stellt sich Barbara Blaha angesichts aktueller Vorwürfe sexualisierter Belästigung und Gewalt. Es gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.
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Claudia Eggart @ceggart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Mel Aura @melaura.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tja.😁
Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller verliert Klage gegen Campact
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René Engel @reneengel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Liebe Menschen, das hier sind die Kämpfe, auf die es ankommt 👇 Folgt @republik.ch und @adfichter.bsky.social, abonniert sie wenn ihr könnt, verbreitet ihre Artikel!
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Lennart Jonasson @lennson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
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Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/01/2026
Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
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Cl__An @cl-an.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
14.1.2026 Salzburger Nachrichten
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Erich Kocina @erichkocina.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Gerri Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
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Wiener Original Gerri Geiger ist tot
Als Verkäufer der Straßenzeitung Augustin rund um den Yppenplatz und in den Gürtellokalen war Geiger eine Wiener Institution. Nun ist er gestorben.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
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blauerelefant @blauerelefant.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Immer wieder amüsant, wie der politisch gescheiterte Sebastian Kurz allen die große Weltpolitik erklären möchte, digga du bist an St. Pölten gescheitert und willst uns jetzt Washington und Moskau erklären?
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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tina Harris, Amsterdam Anthropologies Series 2024–2025
YouTube video by Amsterdam Anthropologies Series – UvA
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 12/12/2025
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
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Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
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RAV @rav-ev.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden. #Solidarität rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
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Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland
Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Nachdem ein Medium wie die ZEIT über zehn Jahre rechte Positionen immer mehr normalisiert hat, wird nun die Verschwörungstheorie lanciert, am Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus sei ausgerechnet die Linke schuld.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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Sarah Rogers @china-geographies.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)
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Die Tagespresse @dietagespresse.com · 30/11/2025
Das Shirt zum Kurz-Widerruf jetzt im Tagespresse-Shop: shop.dietagespresse.com/products/kur...
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Kurz-Widerruf-Shirt
Der Standard-Widerruf über die Berichterstattung zu Sebastian Kurz und Jeffrey Epstein jetzt als Baumwoll-Shirt. Nahtloser Doppelnäht-Kragen Doppelt genähte Ärmel- und Saumabschlüsse Verstärkte Nacken...
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 28/11/2025
"... the world of my own language has perished" Israel's national library in Jerusalem has Stephan Zweig's final letter before committing suicide in February 1942 and it is an eerie read in 2025.
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Matthäus Rest @mattrest.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In his contribution to @roadsides.bsky.social issue on Foodways, André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
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