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Finn Arne Jørgensen

@finnarne.me

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Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. Photographer, author, boardgamer. More at finnarne.net

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4h

We’re all haunted by the tyranny of buttons.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 6h

A haunting (haunted?) presence.

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Sirrah Hamann @sirincrisis.bsky.social · 8h

How does prospective mining on the Moon mirror prior forms of extractivism on Earth?

In July, I visited the Blåfjell and Tellnes Mines near #MagmaGeopark in Southwest Norway to collect video materials and talk with local experts about mining heritage.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 6h

Glad it worked out! The event looks cool, though the odds of me being in Leipzig for it next week are rather slim. Hope it goes well!

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

Yaaay! I have faith in you!

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

Thanks for the thoughtful review, Lena - I really appreciate it! This book had a long journey to completion, from a workshop in Shanghai through the pandemic lockdowns to finally finding a home with @upittpress.bsky.social! I'm proud of the result and the bear on the cover makes me happy every time!

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 1d

It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together!

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

Dette er faktisk vakkert.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 1d

many #energylives members at #SHOT2025 in Luxembourg last week!

#histstm #envhum #energyhistory

Group of seven people stands in front of a metal-covered wall in a corridor, all facing the camera.

picture shows a campus area, open in the front with an artificial lake, in the background there is a mix of new university buildings and old steelwork infrastructure.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

Enormous moon rising over Ryfylke right now.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

My friend and former colleague Anna Foka is recruiting a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities - she told me she would love someone with an #envhist background here.

PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research

PhD student in Information Studies with a direction towards AI and Digital Humanities research At the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies, Museum and Cultural Herita

uu.varbi.com

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

More-than-human hotels.

Hotel sign saying not to open windows because of all the ladybugs who’ll come in

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

We took a really nice sensory walk around the Belval campus today, on a gorgeous fall day. Thanks to all who came! #shot2025 #energylives

Group of people standing next to water mirror between buildings.

Huge steel pipes on one half, the other half is a reflection in mirror strips on a wall.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

That looks excellent, I wouldn't mind one of those right now.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

The first paper is actually co-authored by Anna Åberg (who presented it), Joel Löw, and Bengt Sandin, sorry about missing the first line in the program. A very good session, and first I’ve been to here that was packed - we ran out of chairs for people!

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Mine were on the original Atlantic list, but are not on the settlement list.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Make sure to bring a lunch. We won’t start discussing until 13:15 or so, to give people time. #shot2025

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Second, a lunchtime session from 12:55-14:10, on «Sensory walking as history of technology method». See our posters by the registration desk, walk around campus on your own using our prompts (on handouts), and come to the session to discuss walking methodologies! #shot2025

Two posters on a wall. One has a map of campus, the other a description of the session «Sensory walking as history of technology method».

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

We have two sessions organized by the #energylives project today. First, from 11:35-12:50 in room 3.230, «Energy (In)Justices: Social and Cultural Perspectives on the Use(rs) of Heating Technologies», with papers from Bengt Sandin, Damiana Salm, Bue Poulsgaard et al, and Odinn Melsted. #shot2025

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Last day of #shot2025! I must admit that I’ve developed a slight case of campus envy while here in Belval.

Building with red reflection. Blue sky, big moon above

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4d

The two main rules of any academic event: give people good food and time to talk with each other. Presentations are secondary.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4d

That’s me. Talking about how Joy has influenced me as a historian. And how that this really led to our current #energylives project. I don’t think it’s wrong to think of the project as a tribute to Joy.

Person on screen, talking. «Sensing Changed is the most important of Joy’s books to me»

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4d

At the «The Extraordinary Meaning of Ordinary Life: Joy Parr's Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology» lunchtime session at #shot2025. Francesca Bray introducing us to Joy before Sedona Micale shows us the film on Joy that she edited and produced.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4d

I have to say, the #shot2025 program is designed as if bodies didn’t exist. No space between sessions, no time to eat, sessions can’t start on time because the rooms are still full of people from previous sessions still going on, overtime.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4d

Hahahah, yes, this is an age-old problem, we had it on Twitter in the good old days too.