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@Ljiljana1972 We´ve just published a volume containing a collection of essays from my course “How to talk about ‘nature’?” For me, it is a document of historical interest as a "time capsule" because the essays were written between 2020-22, just before emergence of GenAI.

Academics complaining here how it's not _pedagogical_ to replace essays with in class written exams to evaluate students as if they have any choice ...

@ProfSteveFuller The Spanish philosopher Antonio Escohotado wrote his General History of Drugs in eleven months while in prison in the 80s. Outside, he said, it would have taken him three or four years. He'd requested an isolation cell to boost productivity, and got it! ✍🏻☝🏻📈

Aren't there better reasons to kill people? Aim high and avoid Narcissism. 😜

We taught students how Western societies came to imagine nature as a pristine realm separate from humans; then unpacked its socio-historical aspects. Recognising wilderness is not just "out there", we asked them to reflect on own experiences of wilderness doi.org/10.26127/BTUOp…

Great turnout at The Ecological Bootprint Conference in Munich regarding the nexus of the military and the environment. Together with Tetiana G. (NAS Ukraine), I co-organized a session on hydraulic warfare in Ukraine.

It was a pleasure to organize and participate in the panel "Talking about rivers in Ukraine: from lessons and reflections to action" last week at #CafeKyiv in Berlin. Many Ukrainian rivers were represented in this session. Thanks @KASonline & KIU (Viadrina European Uni).

🌊Tomorrow morning at #CaféKyiv in Berlin: A discussion about rivers in Ukraine during wartime and several community-led restoration projects in Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv City and Kharkiv Oblast. @KASonline

@NAChristakis Thanks for the testimony, Prof. Christakis, as so many parts of it resonated with my experience there. I remember asking myself what I could even teach to those who have already experienced so much of the world. And yet, we´ll keep coming back, just as I am sure you will as well

The trip to Kyiv takes 12 hour overland from Warsaw, and it is everywhere marked by evidence of a country at war -- young people at arms, graveyards, bombed buildings. But it is worth it to see resilient Ukrainian students engaged in learning in a time of war. youtube.com/watch?v=XbqF5e…

@ProfSteveFuller As an undergrad in the 2000s, I remember the Habermas churches were intense in Spain, fueled by the optimism of Castells' info society.

No surprise, given that it comes from the biggest metaphysical mystifier of consensus in our time.

@ProfSteveFuller This reminds me how STS was meant to unsettle paradigms, not to become one by branding its acronym and attach it to a particular scholarly identity.

As a thinker becomes sociologically explicable, their intellectual significance diminishes, which requires others to reassert their distinctiveness. Unfortunately, sociologists themselves play both sides of this coin, and so there is no sociology of, say, Butler, Zizek, etc.

Last week, discussing the "tricky" dialectics of peace and war with Issam (CCHP Bethlehem) and Manana (Blueshield🔷Georgia🇬🇪). Thanks organizers (The International Association of World Heritage Professionals e.V. + @DAAD_Germany).

@ProfSteveFuller Empathy at its best.

A useful way to think about something hard is to think about it in the style of another thinker, and then recalibrate your own thinking. This is why it's generally useful to understand different styles of thinking, which are about self-positioning in the line of thought.

@ProfSteveFuller That would be awesome. Thanks so much! Of course, I enjoy the YouTube talks, but the lectures have a particular rhythm that I very much value.

@DrFraRod I actually still record everything but there is normally a university firewall. I can check if I can have that released. But most of my public stuff is available on YouTube.

A student in my End Times seminar today suggested that conventional violence is likely to decline in the long term, as 'human' becomes less associated with a specific biological form. Instead, violence will be aimed at the computer systems sustaining humanity.

@ProfSteveFuller Like the concepts that disappear because they have been normalized.

The really influential people in the intellectual world are the ones you can mention without citing their work.

This long weekend in Kharkiv 🇺🇦, rethinking the present and future of mobility throughout the city. A special focus for me is the rivers 💦 and other waterways in Kharkiv, which some locals call the “second Venice of Europe.” #MobilityWeek 🇪🇺 @mobilityweek

Stray no more, some cats in Kharkiv now have their own apartments.

@ProfSteveFuller Clever borrowers.

I sometimes run across young people who think they're #original because they're ignorant of the past. That ignorance quickly falsifies their claims to originality. All true 'originals' have been very aware of the past -- especially of its unexplored potential.

1_ on the 11th of September, i'll have huge honor to be in conversation about "Ecocide in Ukraine" with amazing Monica Eppinger at the legendary independent bookstore @LeftBankBooks. If you have friends in #StLouis, pls share. For those who'd like to join online...

@ProfSteveFuller Why night runs? Schedule thing or do you just prefer it? I need the sun for my runs, even in summer.

As someone who goes running at night, I can report that a lot of big flags flapping from tall lamp posts conjures the images of ghosts on the pavement.

An interesting way to dramatize the history of the social sciences is to imagine a bunch of students who stopped believing that the endless repetition of the history of philosophy constituted the sum of human experience.