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Mayee Wong

@mayeewong.bsky.social
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Contemporary urban/design culture,critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics,STS/history of tech-environment,AICA.Asst Prof @Utrecht University. More informally at mstdn.social/@mayeewong

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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our piece "Semakau Landfill Beyond 2035" is published on Cosmogrammatics.xyz: a repository of experimental fieldwork practices run by Michaela Büsse and designed by Moritz Grenner-Petter. cosmogrammatics.xyz/articles/sem...
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Cosmogrammatics – A growing repository of experimental fieldwork practices
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Juria Toramae and I were recently interviewed by Channelnews Asia journalist Davina Tham on our speculative piece "Semakau Landfill Beyond 2035." Her news article examines the futures of Semakau Landfill and various dimensions of Singapore's trash issue. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/se...
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Cosmogrammatics – A growing repository of experimental fieldwork practices
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Just launched: Against Catastrophe's the second installation of "Reclaiming Futures":"Planetary Urbanisms." Proud to have my essay along with those from Gökçe Günel,Orit Halpern and Olamide Udoma-Ejorh as well as films from Michaela Büsse and Dele Adeyamo. againstcatastrophe.net
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Against Catastrophe
The aim of this project is to interrogate the concept of catastrophe – how it is defined, analyzed, and deployed – and anti-catastrophic practices in an attempt to envision alternatives to our present...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The online launch for the "Wind as Model, Media and Experience" issue stream for Media & Environment journal (of which I was a contributor), June 11th 2025, 5PM CET. Full stream here: mediaenviron.org/section/4661...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I'll be presenting with Michaela Büsse on this year's ACLA meeting on the energy island as incomposite techno-utopia on the panel "Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide" (31st May 2025, 12.30 - 2.15PM CST) tempguide.acla.org/program-guid...
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Program Guide | American Comparative Literature Association
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I am presenting at the Association for Asian Studies meeting on the imaginary of "Asian futurity" as projected by Singapore's model planetary eco-urban aesthetics in the panel "Eco-city Visions: Environmental Aesthetics and Sustainability Politics from Southeast Asia to the Arab Gulf"
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The recurrent New Year resolution to get off X
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My new article out in "Media+Environment" journal: "From Wind Turbines to Energy Islands: Wind as Model Power in Denmark" (mediaenviron.org/article/1257...)
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From Wind Turbines to Energy Islands: Wind as Model Power in Denmark | Published in Media+Environment
By May Ee Wong. This article explains how fluctuating wind is shaped into stable “energy” as a media environment, just as wind as medium and milieu shapes infrastructural forms of wind power.
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I will be presenting on the chapter I am working on for my book project in UU's Open Cities research-in-progress platform, along with Charlotte Vekemans. This coming Thursday, 3 - 6pm: www.uu.nl/en/events/de...
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December Research-in-Progress Seminar: Speculation, Disruption, and Desire in Heritage and Urban Futures
The Open Cities Platform organizes a seminar for two presenters to workshop chapters on speculative cities and planetary urban futures, as well as on heritage development projects and governance.
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Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 | jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Professor in Environmental Media Studies
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Daniela Agostinho will be presenting at UU for Transmission in Motion on 16th Oct on "Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research" transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/daniela-agos...
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“Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research” – Daniela Agostinho (Aarhus University)
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
I will be presenting a paper on the making of hydrogen as energy resource through the prospective energy island with Michaela Büsse at the "Social Studies of energy and the making and unmaking of energy resources" conference end-October. gt-dynprob.aau.dk?page_id=52
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Conference – Green transition through dynamics of problematizations
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Happening at Utrecht University, a multispecies cities reading meeting organized by @lauraodbeke.bsky.social this month www.uu.nl/en/events/re...
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Reading Circle: Multispecies Cities – an Unearthed x Open Cities collaboration
In collaboration with the reading group unearthed, the Open Cities Platform is organizing a friendly, casual meeting to explore the topic of multispecies cities.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
First four books on @amsterdamupress.bsky.social digital studies series (of which I’m a founding editor) have been published - all #openaccess. On platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work, critical data practices & more.🎊📚💜 jonathangray.org/2024/07/25/a...
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First four books in digital studies series at Amsterdam University Press: platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work and critical data practices
critical engagements with digital data, methods and infrastructures
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
I am joining Utrecht University come this September as Asst Prof in Urban Mobile Media for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities. Looking forward to working with great colleagues like @lauraodbeke.bsky.social!
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Happening in Aarhus University on the 4th of June is the inaugural symposium of the Center for Critical Data Practices cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arra...
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Critical Data Practices: Remaking Data Archives, Subjects and Technologies
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Happening this week (25th April) at the Aarhus Architecture School aarch.dk/events/subte...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
An article out on Electronic Book Review based on our Helsinki Biennale 2023 Environmental Audiotour and the film “Saaret” by @paolopatelli.bsky.social (Jussi Parikka also keynoted on this for ELO2023) electronicbookreview.com/essay/ecocri...
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kalindi vora @kalindivora.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Ms Magazine just published my OpEd on Evelyn Fox Keller's feminist STS legacy showing diversity makes science better. Also mentioned: UC Davis Feminist Research Institute's "Asking Different Questions" msmagazine.com/2024/03/25/e... @MsMagazine @TheOpEdProject @FRIUCDavis
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Excited that Michaela Büsse will be over at Aarhus University to give this talk "Building (With) Nature" on her research and film on the Zandmotor on the 4th of April, 2pm, at Nobelparken: ceh.au.dk/news-and-eve...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
At Aarhus University in June, a PhD workshop for Environmental Media and Environmental Humanities. International applicants welcome (application deadline by 15th March 2024) au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Really happy to hear that my ex-colleague/supervisee got into a professional grad sch program in the US (without a Masters) -- one out of 30 programs applied.
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Very much looking forward to this in March! tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germ...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
I'll be giving a talk at the Aarhus University Center for Science Studies colloquium on the 7th of February on the 'energy island' as speculative landscape/apparatus css.au.dk/en/news/news...?
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Anna Greenspan will be talking about her book "China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy" tomorrow online (17th Jan, 10 am Danish time), with introduction by Ryan Bishop cc.au.dk/en/news-and-...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
I'm speaking on behalf of the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project on our work, especially on our curatorial involvement and environmental audiotour in HB2023 for this AU symposium on data journalism and the broader trends of civic communication practice on the 19th of January 2024.
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Catching Emma Talbot's "Ghost Calls" as this eventful year nears its end
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Network art pioneer Olia Lialina's talk "Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones" which inaugurated the AU Digital Aesthetics Research Center's (DARC) Distinguished Speaker series on the 3rd of November at Kunsthal Aarhus: vimeo.com/889831244
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Danish invasive species cookbook: If you can't beat them, eat them (in Danish): www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publik...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Ben Grosser’s lecture at Aarhus University yesterday, taking us through his various software art projects which highlight the capitalist logics of infinite growth embedded in social media platforms.
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Statement of solidarity from Nordic academics with the Palestinian people (published on "Information") www.information.dk/debat/2023/1...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Sharing this CFP (on behalf of guest editor Ksenia Fedorova) if it interests anyone at #4SHonolulu23: "Theorizing Media Art in light of STS" for Artnodes journal: raco.cat/index.php/Ar...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
At Honolulu this year for 4S - Kim de Wolff and I have co-organized the panel "Islands of STS: Refiguring Environmental Futures", happening on Thursday 9th, 5.50 - 7.40 pm
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Just published — from one of my ‘Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds’ UC Davis research group colleagues, Christopher Miller, “Embodying Transnational Yoga” www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
PhD opportunity as part of research project “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of the Life” at the Department of Language, Culture, History, and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark SDU (Odense, Denmark): www.sdu.dk/da/service/l...
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Launching a new interdisciplinary feed for the Social Sciences and Humanities on Methodology! Tags are #ontology, #epistemology, #methods, #methodology and #MethSky
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
David H Price and Dulmini Perera in conversation, 2nd Oct 1815-1930 CET on Gregory Bateson’s intelligence work at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the 1940s (www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/david-h-pric...)
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Pentagon bets big on artificial intelligence, currently funding over 800 separate AI projects
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The U.S. Military Bets Big on Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon is currently funding over 800 separate AI projects
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
join us NEXT WEEK online for our three-day multi-timezone symposium on ATMOSPHERIC BORDERS @BorderCritical — see our excellent line up of presenters: acbsworking.group/atmospheric-...
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Atmospheric Borders
4th, 5th and 6th October 2023 (Brisbane AEST time) We have an exciting selection of international contributions, papers, and presentations - please join us online for this virtual symposium! Free to a...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
The world these days arstechnica.com/information-...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Was just remembering her essays “Organisms, Machines and Thunderstorms” which were foundational for my reading on self-organization early in my PhD
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 11/09/2023
Are you an #envhist or #envhum scholar? Then you might be interested in the Environmental History feed I maintain. If you're a member of the feed you can send tagged posts to it. Also, follow and like the list!
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/09/2023
I am certain that Bluesky is the rightful inheritor of Twitter's legacy, because here is a 30-post bibliographic thread on classical Roman cheesemaking
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
The 2023 Helsinki Biennal ends on the 17th of Sept. This comprehensive review from Olga Goriunova captures quite succinctly its key thematic concerns: www.afterall.org/articles/how...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
KSR on cities in his fiction, writing from Davis, "a tiny little college town, as if a Midwestern college town had been airlifted into the Central Valley." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mayee Wong @mayeewong.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Testing bluesky here. Am still on X (@mayee_wong) and also on Mstdn.social (@mayeewong@mstdn.social). There's going to be some replication between the three acounts but I am looking to get off X eventually.
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