🚨 My first journal article on telegraph workers, labour, race, and agency in the Indo-European Telegraph Department is out now in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. Check it out! https://t.co/yXFk5XrDZa
Day 3 of #ICA26 begins at 10:30 am (Level 1, Room 1.62), followed by a second panel at 1:30 pm (Westin, Harbour Edge Level, Victoria & Alfred room). See you there!
Corey Robin's critique of Beckert's new book is good on many levels, not least his conclusion that situates Beckert's collapse of time and space as a product of the inescapability of capitalism today where its beginning and end are as fuzzy as its spatial distribution.
BREAKING: The IRGC warns of cutting the seven submarine internet cables that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which would trigger a "digital catastrophe" for Gulf states that depend on them for over 90% of their internet, banking, and cloud services, per Tasnim.
Iran relies on these cables for less than 40% of its internet, with the rest routed overland through Turkey. Gulf states have no comparable backup. IRGC described the cables as "strategic pressure points" alongside ports, shipping lanes, and energy facilities.
i only know a couple david edgerton pieces but in both he's like 'historians have a totally inverted sense of social significance in hist of tech/sci' but he's right both times--for tech, innovation over maintenance of old systems; for sci, basic research over industrial science
Literally nobody in British politics & the media was talking about Iran & nuclear weapons a month ago.
Now it’s a civilisational threat.
Meanwhile stuff Brits care about goes on back-burner. We do this every year or so. It’s a sign of how dysfunctional western politics now is.
Pretty soon we’re going to have a new kind of class distinction, people who had ChatGPT simulate and experience their thoughts for them, and people who will stay curious, read, and think for themselves. And it’s going to lead to a number of political conflicts.
Iran being at the "negotiating table" made no difference in whether or not it started getting bombed. This is the parallel reality European states are living in.
Israeli strikes on gas infrastructure at Bushehr and Bandar Abbas.
One Israeli official characterizing the attacks as a "message" to Iran's leadership--no doubt for them to refrain from targeting energy infrastructure, or perhaps even to refrain from retaliation in general.