Sebastian Rose

Historian and researcher. Postdoc researching infrastructure, war and empire.

[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

🚨 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

[ICA History @ICA_History]

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!

[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

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.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

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.

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

Soviet peasants listen to the radio for the first time, 1928.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Operating since 1901, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn is the oldest electric elevated railway in the world, featuring suspended cars.

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

If this is about oil, it is certainly not as a business proposition in any conventional sense.

[Andrew @Dub__A]

Photos of dogs chasing John Divola’s car in the desert from the photobook Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert by John Divola

[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

@_John_Handel Patrick Joyce writes about this photo and much more on peasant life in his latest book

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

AI will never generate a better depiction of combined and uneven development.

[Ghand-e Parsi قند پارسی @Ghandeparsii]

Website of

Ghand-e Parsi: Academy of Persian Language and Persianate Culture 

Is now launched:
https://t.co/Jug5wVRt5s

[arne ness @arne__ness]

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

[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

A Moment of Innocence must be added

[Ralph Leonard @buffsoldier_96]

You can add The Seed of the Sacred Fig to the list.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

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.

[Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd]

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.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

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.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

Let's talk about regime change in Iran.

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[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

@gbrew24 Also follow @rowenarazak who was interviewed in this article on the situation https://t.co/adKmKLnEp0

[Sebastian Rose @sebrose91]

If you're looking for sober and insightful analysis of the current frightening escalation between Israel and Iran you should follow @gbrew24

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

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.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Middle East.