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Maximilian Mai Pieper

@maxpieper.bsky.social
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sociology | technology | environment | postdoc @ uni augsburg

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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you, Jan!
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣Workshop CfP: Unbuilding Obstructed Futures. On the Temporality and Materiality of Dismantling Infrastructure 📅17 - 19 March 2027 (University of Augsburg) 🚨Application deadline: 31 October 2026 Please share and repost :) bit.ly/47uSnK1 #STS #InfrastructureStudies #EnvironmentalSociology
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Call for Papers: Unbuilding Obstructed Futures. On the Temporality and Materiality of Dismantling Infrastructure – UM(WELT)DENKEN
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The biophysical dimension of AI rests not only on the infrastructure through which data “flows“ (e.g. data centers, power plants…) but extends to the human lived time embodied in the data. 3/3
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
of AI technologies. We argue that the functionality of LLMs such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini is based on an unequal exchange of information between corporations and the public. 2/3
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New article out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The fantasy of digital immateriality: AI, ecologically unequal exchange, and appropriation of lived human time In this piece, Alf Hornborg and I investigate in what sense the theory of ecologically unequal exchange can guide the analysis 1/3
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Lena Schilling @lenaats.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Kurzer Reality Check: Mehr Menschen sterben an der Hitze in Europa als an Waffen in der US.
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🦇🧛 Hanno Auflauer 🧛🦇 @matthias-warkus.de · 19/06/2026
Der Satz »Es kann zu möglichen Kontrollen kommen« an der SB-Kasse geht mir unnormal auf die Nerven
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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New article out: www.die-erde.org/index.php/di...
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Naturalizing Technology, Technologizing Nature: On the Global Political Ecology of Smart Environments | DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.
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Current AI custom prompt:

You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can.

Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
However, as soon as we include the perspectives of other social actors, it becomes clear that extension, production, and dematerialization for some actors come at the cost of curtailment of capabilities, destruction of livelihoods, and materialization of harms for many others. /11
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I argue that extension, production, and dematerialization appear as universal technological capacities to be mastered and controlled. /10
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The perspective of critical functionalism underlies all three papers of my dissertation. In them, I examine three central capacities commonly attributed to technology: (1) extending human capabilities, (2) increasing production, and (3) dematerializing production. /9
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Finally, I propose the perspective of critical functionalism. It acknowledges technology's ambiguous position between the social and the natural realms, avoiding both the matter-of-fact view of positivism and the critical drive to look behind surface illusions. /8
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Further, I trace the understanding of technology through the Anthropocene discourse by engaging with Actor-Network Theory, systems theory, and the concept of the Technosphere, as well as eco-Marxism and ecologically unequal exchange theory. /7
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In the framing text, I anchor technology fetishism in classical sociology by showing how the discipline formed itself through the distinction between social laws and laws of nature while struggling to place technology within this conceptual frame. /6
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I argue that the phenomenon of technology fetishism is central to answering this question. By fetishizing technologies, one understands them as primarily physical matters of fact and thereby overlooks their social dimension. /5
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The central question then becomes: How is functionality constructed in the Anthropocene? In other words, how do we maintain a narrow, tool-like understanding of technology when the situation should make it impossible to do so? /4
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
To observe that a technology functions, we must limit our view to certain actors, certain causes, certain effects. Yet, the planetary dimensions of current ecological crises suggest an all-encompassing scope that technological solutions fail to cover. /3
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
as a geological era of the entire planet, it challenges us to consider environmental crises and technological responses in their global totality. One could expect that this situation seriously challenges established understandings of technological functionality. /2
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My dissertation on technology fetishism and the construction of functionality in the Anthropocene is now available for everyone to read 🙌 opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/129372 For questions concerning technology, the Anthropocene suggests a peculiar starting point: /1
opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de
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Moritz Hürtgen @moritzhuertgen.de · 12/04/2026
Niemand: Bluesky-User: Ich traue eigentlich niemandem außer mir selbst zu, die großen Zusammenhänge zu sehen
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👻 Anspielung die du nicht verstehst @herrnharder.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Niemand muss "Schule neu denken". Über Schule ist genügend nachgedacht worden. Es gibt hervorragende Studien zu Unterricht, Methoden, Wirksamkeit, Faktoren etc Das System Schule ist durchdacht. Es scheitert weder an Ideenmangel noch an Visionen, sondern an realer jahrzehntelanger Mangelwirtschaft.
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Clayton “Death” @itsclaybaby.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Me and the fellas getting the oil around the Hormuz blockade
Werner Herzog in the foreground pointing at the big boat that needs to go up a hill in the background in Burden of Dreams
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Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de · 10/03/2026
Das Flanieren, als eine keiner Zweckhaftigkeit folgenden Tätigkeit, wird zum Verdachtsfall.
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Überwachung in Berlin: Wenn die KI das „Umhergehen ohne Anlass“ meldet
Der Berliner Senat weitet die Videoüberwachung aus und setzt auf automatisierte Verhaltensanalyse vor dem Abgeordnetenhaus und an Kriminalitätsschwerpunkten.
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Great Article! "Thus, “R.U.R.,” which gave birth to the robot, was a critique of mechanization and the ways it can dehumanize people. The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs. Its Slavic linguistic root, “rab,” means “slave.”"
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Latour hat das mal ganz gut auf den Punkt gebracht: "For Dr. Frankenstein’s crime was not that he invented a creature through some combination of hubris and high technology, but rather that he abandoned the creature to itself."
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Maximilian Mai Pieper @maxpieper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Das Thema Mutter- und Vaterschaft wäre aber tatsächlich insofern interessant gewesen, als es die Frage aufwirft, wie wir uns denn um die Technologien "kümmern" sollten, die wir in die Welt setzen (statt der Frage, welche Technologien wir erschaffen)
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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 10/01/2026
Unterschätzte Kulturtechnik „Das hat nichts miteinander zu tun“
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 22/12/2025
Your job as a campaigner isn’t to win over your opposition; nor beat them in the ‘marketplace of ideas’. Your job is to change the terms of the debate. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...
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This Christmas, Don’t Talk about Politics
Why arguing with your family about politics won’t change their minds — and what actually will
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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Wenn ihr die (finanzielle) Möglichkeit habt, dann stattet doch dem unabhängigen Buchhandel in eurer Nähe noch einen vorweihnachtlichen Besuch ab. Das Weihnachtsgeschäft läuft nicht gut und es ist vor allem der unabhängige Handel, der für Vielfalt in den Programmen sorgt.
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Waveybobson (Kommando Elif Eralp) @bobbybaerchen.eurosky.social · 15/12/2025
Finde Ermittlungen etwas scharf man sollte ihn vor allem inhaltlich stellen
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Hitlergruß im Bundestag: Anklage gegen AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneten Matthias Moosdorf
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin hat wegen eines Hitlergrußes im Garderobenbereich des Bundestags Anklage gegen den 60-jährigen AfD-Abgeordneten Matthias Moosdorf erhoben. Seine Immunität hatte er bereit...
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Das ist ein wichtiges Paper zum Verständnis der Gegenwart: Große Ungleichheit führt zu (falschen) Aufstiegsträumen und damit zur Ablehnung von Umverteilung (weil man in diesem Traum selbst einmal reich ist) - und damit zur Stabilisierung von Ungleichheit.
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Von Reichtum träumen
Große Ungleichheit sorgt für einen unrealistisch optimistischen Blick auf die Chancen für einen sozialen Aufstieg. Diese Fehleinschätzung führt zu weniger Unterstützung für politische...
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
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Patrick Breitenbach @patrickbreitenbach.de · 30/11/2025
Ich empfehle sehr dieses Gespräch mit dem Soziologen Frank Adloff. Selten wurde so sachlich-nüchtern Klartext zum Klimakollaps gesprochen. Was würde ich dafür geben, wenn die gesamte Debatte sich so in Breite ausgestalten würde. Man wäre so viel weiter.
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Soziologe warnt: Wegen der Klimakrise droht der gesellschaftliche Zusammenbruch
Ökologische Krisen erschüttern die Grundlagen unseres Zusammenlebens, sagt der Soziologe Frank Adloff. Notwendig sei daher ein radikaler Systemwandel.
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