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Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program
(USC Annenberg, USA)
Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism
my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @inquiline@assemblag.es
"personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's
header: oil extraction, palm trees
profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped)
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Dec 01, 2025
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Dec 01, 2025
Special issue of Environment and Planning C on “Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows”
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Nov 07, 2025
GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Aug 15, 2025
"From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors... the film industry rose alongside the oil and aeronautics industries that transformed SoCal"
(HT a student)
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-extractions/9780231213585/
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jul 17, 2025
You can thank Warwick Anderson for this passage (...) about uncanny turds (Spectacles of Waste, ch 4)
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jul 16, 2025
"The Mobilities of Ships... unexplored waters and diverse case studies, including pirate ships, naval vessels and luxury yachts. The Mobilities of Ships offers a rich insight into the world of shipping mobilities past and present."
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315695938/mobilities-ships-anyaa-anim-addo-william-hasty-kimberley-peters
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jul 09, 2025
1909 Los Angeles Herald headlines were wild:
SUES COMPANY BECAUSE MULE KICKED HIM AND FAILED TO OPEN DOOR
NIGHTGOWN IGNITED AND WOMAN IS BADLY BURNED
FORMER MINNESOTAN IS KILLED BY CAR
(it me, btw)
FONDNESS FOR MACHINERY LEADS TO A FIST FIGHT
END OF OCEAN HATE WAR ASSURED BY WEDNESDAY**
CHURCHMAN'S SON FORCED TO CRIME
GIRL MURDERED FOR HER GEMS
MEETS DEATH AS BURNING TORCH
BIG GOLF BATTLE IS FORESHADOWED
LONG BEACH WINS
EXHIBITION OF CAT CLUB ENDS
GARBAGE CONTRACT SUGGESTIONS MADE
(the actual reason I am reading this, natch)
HORSE DEALER CHARGES RANCHMAN WITH SLANDER
**turns out it's actually Ocean Rate War, a pity
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jun 25, 2025
This book looks fascinating, especially if you are interested in incineration, which I currently am
"In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying 1000s of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a 2-yr journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground"
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jan 22, 2025
1897 Detroit Free Press cartoon of a California black bear making off with a pig in the moonlight while the farmer looks on, shaking his fist
(this *is* a research post but it may take me a decade to get around to the writing, if I do)
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Jan 07, 2025
"Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most significant and polyvalent cultural geographies. The fates of these spaces sharply diverge, however, as the rise and consolidation of the leisure beach coincides with the cultural forgetting of ports."
https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article/73/2/131/173462/Beaches-and-Ports
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Dec 07, 2024
"Boyer encourages us to look beyond this nostalgia for petro-fueled Keynesianism, to see the infrastructural turn instead as part of the wider anti-anthropocentric turn in the human sciences. He takes the turn to infrastructure as a sign “that we are conceptually re-arming ourselves for the struggle against the #Anthropocene and the #modernity that made it"
-Appel, Anand, and Gupta, Intro to The Promise of #Infrastructure
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Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
hcommons.social
Christina D-H
@cdh@hcommons.social
STS, professor in Comm program (USC Annenberg, USA) Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @ inquiline "personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's header: oil extraction, palm trees profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped) # STS # Commodon # NoIndex # NoScrape
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Nov 30, 2024
"The South Asian coast line, after all, is today a site of aggressive port development even as scientists project it to be an early victim of the rising sea. Aspirations for global supremacy intensify the push for ports across South Asia. They also enmesh these ports in complex and changing international relations"
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