Philipp Budka

Check out this special issue of Anthropologica on narratives & temporalities of #infrastructure in #Canada: cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anth… #anthropology #energy #water #transport

Interested in findings of my recent 4-year project? A summary of results can be found in this report (PDF): "Infrastructural #Sovereignty in #Churchill, #Manitoba: #Transport Entanglements & Community #Futures:" infranorth.eu/wp-content/upl… #Canada #infrastructure #anthropology

Interested in #infrastructure & beyond? Check out this conference, organized by @InfraNorthERC @univienna, Sept 22-24, 2025 (deadline April 6): infranorth.eu/news/call-for-… #anthropocene #anthropology

"Elon #Musk is erratic and self-interested, enables hate speech on X and is aligned with a government that wants to annex #Canada." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/0…

“As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, ..., the inner soul of the people... On some ... day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” H. Mencken (1920)

Justin Trudeau: "Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

X supports a political party in #Germany despite "sufficient indications of anti-constitutional endeavours within the party." Is #X aiming to damage constitutional democracies? verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/pre… #Bundestagswahlen #Deutschland

📢 #CallforPapers! Join us at the #conference “Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene,” Sep. 22–24, 2025, @univienna! 🗓️ Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions! 🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-for-…

Donald Trump claims his desire for Canada to become the 51st state is real. Canada has already spoken and their answer is for Trump to go fuck himself.

New blog post: Bridging Past and Present: Archival Research in Ethnographic Studies of #Transport Infrastructures: infranorth.eu/blog/bridging-…

After almost 17 years with #Twitter, I am really looking forward to a new micro-blogging experience with #Bluesky. I will not leave, but I will reduce my activities here.

New Year's resolutions? Support institutions that truly contribute to an open & collaborative #internet. Like @Wikipedia & @internetarchive. Guten Rutsch!

RIP @Phettberg_liebt.

✨Thanks to everyone who joined our after-work gathering on Tuesday! It was great to share insights into ongoing research projects over gløgg and cookies with colleagues from the #anthropology department @univienna and our guest Erik Henriksen from @UiTNorgesarktis! #InfraNorth

I'm really looking forward to presenting snippets of my research on the intersection between media #anthropology, digital #ethnography & archival studies at today's joint @LCF_DALab & @DEIVienna workshop. The event will be open & online: digitalethnography.at/digital-anthro…

"#Amazon, #Google and #Meta are ‘pillaging culture, data and creativity’ to train #AI" (via @guardian): theguardian.com/technology/202…

📢 2 open positions #migration #digitalethnography #digitalanthropology in project: Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina @Migration_D jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Resear… jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoctor…

DEI (@univienna) will meet with @LCF_DALab to share & discuss research in digital #anthropology & #ethnography. Join us online ⬇️ digitalethnography.at/digital-anthro…

How #railroads inspired the creation of #time zones (via @BBC): bbc.com/travel/article…