🆕Now on YouTube: Alina Wandelt’s lecture on the role and history of information storage, providing an overview from libraries as cultural monuments to functional institutions and data centres today.
👀 https://youtu.be/bQ_xrikyFIc
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#ai #data #dataCentres #aiinfrastructure #datacenter #cryotech #openbibliosocial #libraries
🔥More new #publications from KWI:
#ComicLiteracies: Roxanne Phillips | @ancaleth.bsky.social with a ‘funny‘ chapter on „Komische Modellierungen des Populären“.
👉 https://doi.org/10.31244/9783818851064
➕ #CryoCultures Fellow Floramante SJ Ponce from the project @cryocultures on post-resettlement (im)mobility trajectories in northern Laos.
#OpenPosition - #GeiWi & #SoWi Studierende aufgepasst: Das ERC Projekt @cryocultures sucht eine engagierte #SHK! Arbeitsort: KWI Essen ❄️
⏰ Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Mai
ℹ️ https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/shk_ausschreibung_cultcryo_kwi_2026_04_16.pdf
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🔔#Reminder
Don’t miss out on our summer term kick-off with Alina Wandelt from the #CryoCultures (@cryocultures) project. She will give a talk entitled “From Libraries to Data Centers – An (Architectural) History of Information Storage”.
Mod: @stefanhoehne
🕒 14.4.|18:30
ℹ️ https://tinyurl.com/4ran9u55
#SummerTermKickoff: Which role does the library play as a central site of information storage in the age of data centers? Drawing on her dissertation, Alina Wandelt from the @cryocultures project traces key developments in the history of information storage, particularly in the digital age 🗂️
📅 14.4. | 18:30
🎤 moderated by @stefanhoehne
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📢 PhD position in Philosophy available at TU Darmstadt
We are currently hiring for a #PhD position at the Institute of #Philosophy at TU Darmstadt as part of our ERC Synergy Project on #cryocultures. If you are interested in the cultural implications of artificial cold from a philosophical perspective and are considering a dissertation project, we invite you to apply. Please submit your application by October 18, 2025 to: https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU-Darmstadt/stellenangebot/50339?lang=en-US.
TU Darmstadt stands for excellent and relevant science. We are playing a decisive role in shaping far-reaching processes of global change—from energy transition to artificial intelligence—through outstanding scientific knowledge and innovative academic programmes. We group our cutting-edge research into three fields: Energy and Environment, Information and Intelligence, Matter and Materials. We are a university with strong ties to the Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan region and a very strong international focus. We are committed to European values and European integration.
We are #hiring If you are interested in the connection of blockchains and cold chains and are looking for a PhD position as an #ethnographer you might be interested in this job posting. Application deadline: September 12.
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/zv/4-4/stellenangebote/Kennziffer7066_Englisch.pdf
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