Officially on the @berghahnbooks.bsky.social website: "Antarctic Materialities," which I co-edited with Ximena Senatore, featuring chapters by @medievalpenguin.bsky.social, @fwinckel.bsky.social, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and more! #histsci #envhist #polar
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
March 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Officially on the @berghahnbooks.bsky.social website: "Antarctic Materialities," which I co-edited with Ximena Senatore, featuring chapters by @medievalpenguin.bsky.social, @fwinckel.bsky.social, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and more! #histsci #envhist #polar
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
'Reimagining "AI's" Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities' afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6406
Reimagining “AI’s” Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities
There’s a new open-access book of collected essays called Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity, and I happen to have an essay in it. The collection is made of contributions…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
'Reimagining "AI's" Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities' afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6406
What's the best acronym in academia, and why is it MEOW?
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What's the best acronym in academia, and why is it MEOW?
Y'all can't even stop destroying the entangled ecosocial and sociocultural materialities of This One Planet, and you think you can manage not just a regular degularly implausible aphelion-plus-diameter Dyson Sphere but a *SOLAR-SYSTEM-SIZED* one???? …Nah bro. Nah.
I mean… fucken Nah, Bro.
I mean… fucken Nah, Bro.
Men will invest literally trillions of dollars in time, resources, conceptual energy, and paradigmatic drive in science fictional ideas which we as a species have not even one millionth the sociotechnical capacity for rather than go to therapy.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Y'all can't even stop destroying the entangled ecosocial and sociocultural materialities of This One Planet, and you think you can manage not just a regular degularly implausible aphelion-plus-diameter Dyson Sphere but a *SOLAR-SYSTEM-SIZED* one???? …Nah bro. Nah.
I mean… fucken Nah, Bro.
I mean… fucken Nah, Bro.
Dourish, Paul. “No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology.” Computational Culture, no. 4 (November 9, 2014). computationalculture.net/no-sql-the-s....
No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology – Computational Culture
computationalculture.net
March 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dourish, Paul. “No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology.” Computational Culture, no. 4 (November 9, 2014). computationalculture.net/no-sql-the-s....
»soft-touchy-feely fluid matters«
September 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM
»soft-touchy-feely fluid matters«
Exciting bit of news: we recently received funding from the EU to study colonial university history!
More details about "Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations" (COLUMN) in the link👇
www.uu.nl/en/news/colo...
#skystorians #heritage #decolonization
More details about "Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations" (COLUMN) in the link👇
www.uu.nl/en/news/colo...
#skystorians #heritage #decolonization
December 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Exciting bit of news: we recently received funding from the EU to study colonial university history!
More details about "Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations" (COLUMN) in the link👇
www.uu.nl/en/news/colo...
#skystorians #heritage #decolonization
More details about "Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations" (COLUMN) in the link👇
www.uu.nl/en/news/colo...
#skystorians #heritage #decolonization
Looking closely a medieval textual technologies and materialities with Matthew Fisher's medieval literature survey.
February 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Looking closely a medieval textual technologies and materialities with Matthew Fisher's medieval literature survey.
More new translation of Rilke and a reflection on gritty materialities:
open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...
open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...
More Rilke ("Abend") For Dirty Snow
another new translation from the German, with a note on Romantic Genius and grittier materialities
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
More new translation of Rilke and a reflection on gritty materialities:
open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...
open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...
Please encourage your libraries to buy a copy of "Antarctic Materialities," due out next month. This is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary volume where scholars from various fields wrote papers on aspects of material culture in Antarctica #histsci #envhist
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
July 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Please encourage your libraries to buy a copy of "Antarctic Materialities," due out next month. This is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary volume where scholars from various fields wrote papers on aspects of material culture in Antarctica #histsci #envhist
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
📘 New #OpenAccess book edited by Justin Niermeier-Dohoney & Aleksandar Shopov:
“Toward a Global History of Soil. Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750" examines how early modern studies of soil radically transformed scientific knowledge and practice. 🌱
🔗 bit.ly/46mFQb
#HistSci #AgHist
“Toward a Global History of Soil. Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750" examines how early modern studies of soil radically transformed scientific knowledge and practice. 🌱
🔗 bit.ly/46mFQb
#HistSci #AgHist
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
📘 New #OpenAccess book edited by Justin Niermeier-Dohoney & Aleksandar Shopov:
“Toward a Global History of Soil. Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750" examines how early modern studies of soil radically transformed scientific knowledge and practice. 🌱
🔗 bit.ly/46mFQb
#HistSci #AgHist
“Toward a Global History of Soil. Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750" examines how early modern studies of soil radically transformed scientific knowledge and practice. 🌱
🔗 bit.ly/46mFQb
#HistSci #AgHist
90,000 words of social and cultural history through understanding the materialities and typologies of the games and the places, rhythms, and interactions of play in the lives of everyday people via the lens of board games.
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
90,000 words of social and cultural history through understanding the materialities and typologies of the games and the places, rhythms, and interactions of play in the lives of everyday people via the lens of board games.
Fascinating series on modernist materialities here via Celia Marshik
October 24, 2023 at 6:33 PM
Fascinating series on modernist materialities here via Celia Marshik
I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025).
In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
May 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025).
In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
August 5, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
The start of the two-day workshop on ‘Paper Ecologies: Histories, Materialities, Experiments’ 👌
July 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The start of the two-day workshop on ‘Paper Ecologies: Histories, Materialities, Experiments’ 👌
Recent things from me discussing the state & implications of "generative AI":
"On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’" (2024) [Frames the Frankfurt connection]
"Reimagining "AI’s" Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025) [Does pretty much that]
…
"On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’" (2024) [Frames the Frankfurt connection]
"Reimagining "AI’s" Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025) [Does pretty much that]
…
August 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Recent things from me discussing the state & implications of "generative AI":
"On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’" (2024) [Frames the Frankfurt connection]
"Reimagining "AI’s" Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025) [Does pretty much that]
…
"On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’" (2024) [Frames the Frankfurt connection]
"Reimagining "AI’s" Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025) [Does pretty much that]
…
More about Montréal artist Michel de Broin here: micheldebroin.org/en/
Michel de Broin - Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin deepens his artistic practice by exploring the intersections between circulation systems, functional and crafted objects, as well as invisible materialities. His works disrupt establis...
micheldebroin.org
September 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
More about Montréal artist Michel de Broin here: micheldebroin.org/en/
(New Book) Maternal Materialities. Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/obje...
June 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
(New Book) Maternal Materialities. Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/obje...
📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
He lives in my building, and we did a little studio visit a few weeks ago :) The beaded pieces are works in progress. I love how he thinks about granularity and fidelity across materialities and media formats.
January 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
He lives in my building, and we did a little studio visit a few weeks ago :) The beaded pieces are works in progress. I love how he thinks about granularity and fidelity across materialities and media formats.
1/ We are glad to invite you to our conference in Paris, "Exploring the materialities of #AI: geographies, infrastructures, numbers", on the 31/01/2025! Info & registration here: cis.cnrs.fr/exploring-th...
January 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
1/ We are glad to invite you to our conference in Paris, "Exploring the materialities of #AI: geographies, infrastructures, numbers", on the 31/01/2025! Info & registration here: cis.cnrs.fr/exploring-th...
🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...
April 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...
I have an essay on penguin eggs in this forthcoming book edited by @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Ximena Senatore
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
February 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I have an essay on penguin eggs in this forthcoming book edited by @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Ximena Senatore
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
A fabulous paper by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social refocusing critical attention on edge AI & the materialities of edge devices. #FederatedLearning #FeatureSpace
After a shamefully long (entirely my fault) review process, finally out in the world "What the Edge Tells the Cloud: Decentralized Geographies of AI" t.co/N8bLysoCIr Our focus on AI has been on algorithms that are mostly cloud-based and taken as a self-enclosed computational unit.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03169-5
t.co
July 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
A fabulous paper by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social refocusing critical attention on edge AI & the materialities of edge devices. #FederatedLearning #FeatureSpace