Patrik Svensson

My new book (Humane Infrastructures, MIT Press, 2025) is now out! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542128/…

"What can the aspirational humanities teach us?" - pre-print published (and submitted to journal). osf.io/preprints/soca…

Program for day 2 (Critical-Connective Tissue)

Program for day 1 (Critical-Connective Tissue)

In a few days: "Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities". critical-connective.com/june2025

Program posted for day 1 of "Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities", June 27-28. Amazing group of participants (Erin Cory, Sverker Sörlin, Marisa Parham, Natalie Jeremijenko, Adam Nocek, Nishant Shah etc.) Really looking forward. critical-connective.com/june2025

Workshop "Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities" at Malmö University June 27-28 (3 weeks from now). Please sign up! Information/registration: critical-connective.com/june2025. Participants include Sverker Sörlin, Adam Nocek, Marisa Parham & Natalie Jeremijenko.

This is playful behaviour. At first the rat was just startled but since the guy jumped , it took it's making fun of him. Rats have a sense of humour. They are social animal and have been observed to tease one another.

The Faculty of Information @UofT offers fully funded PhD student positions to study w/ Prof. @mattratto on design for new models of healthcare, social knowledge and AI in libraries, critical making, social theory and computing, & STS. Deadline Dec. 1: ischool.utoronto.ca/phd-in-informa…

So a compelling meta-narrative about climate action would be really useful - especially when the energy transition is facing project financing and political challenges. But "climate disinformation" is not the way forward. for more on the alternatives: jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

The special issue of the Annals of the History of Computing that @miriamkp and I edited on "Logistical Histories of Computing" is now fully online: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.… Check out the great contributions by @lifewinning @veronia @andrewlison and @kjstine !

Watch Live: Officers are in pursuit of a driver in LA County. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality. Launching September 2024. Pre-order now available. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

We're hiring an Enviro Studies TT at Trent! The prospective fields of expertise are very broad. We've got a nice union and are a very ecumenical bunch! I'm not on the committee and am happy to chat about life at Trent if anyone's curious. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?jo…

I appreciate this short essay by Rebecca Solnit on the slowness of some changes. It's very germane to academic transformation: lithub.com/rebecca-solnit…

Finally got a print copy of our book! It is very cute and I like it.

We are thrilled to welcome Professor @BarbaraRansby to #UCLA on February 8th! As part of the 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing, she will speak to the shared terrain between university-based scholarship and movement-based work. RSVP>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/events/

Become my colleague – two postdocs in digital culture at @lunduniversity out! One more general and one with a specialisation towards digital history. Bitte RT. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…