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Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
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Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//pluriverse//sinophile// Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · Sep 9
#sciencefiction #SFintranslation #vladimircolin #article #Chinese #imagination

I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 15h
#review #literature #German #self #anthropotechnics

Also managed to review 1979 decadent romp by Christian Kracht, a resplendent, flamboyant Red Shambhala postironic Bildungsroman for the late capitalist liberal consumer subject. An old dream.

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Ştefan Tiron's review of 1979
4/5: Christian Kracht is probably my favorite German-speaking and writing author. I ended up with this book on my shelf after a brief encounter in Cluj when I delivered a brief lecture on North Kore...
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 15h
#comics #fantagraphics #comix #bandedesenata #tragedy #epidemics #loss #death

Finally been reviewing the Romanian translation and 2022 by Dezarticulat.ro publication Una Cu Pământul
by Julia Gfrörer.
One of the best publications/translations in recent years.
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Ştefan Tiron's review of Una Cu Pământul
4/5: Probably one of the best comic books translated into Romanian these last years, one that has a completely different echo today than it did when it was published or in 2022 or indeed today in 2025...
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 18h
#economy #History #goldbug #newfusionist

Here's my recent #review of Quinn Slobodian's last book Hayek's Bastards that came out this year. If you haven't read it, please do (especially the chapter on "auripatriots", it's a treat).
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Ştefan Tiron's review of Hayek's Bastards (Near Futures, 12)
4/5: I have been waiting for this book for some time. Probably it is no wonder that (sadly) Quinn Slobodian has deleted his accounts (both TW and blsky - from what I gather). It has been infinitely re...
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 20h
Actually one should see a continuum with Cambridge Analytical - for chire approach, a privatisation of automated campaign bots, not just for LULz but monetizing political outcomes & selling havoc.
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Ralo Franzi Mayer @ralomayer.bsky.social · Jun 14
Meteorites, space law, and some licking - "Space Acts" today at Tanzquartier Wien as part of the Future Playground festival!
tqw.at/en/event/spa...
Future Playground - Ralo Mayer - TQW Theorie
Not in some distant future, but ten years ago, the US passed a law that explicitly allowed private companies to exploit resources on other celestial bodies commercially. This so-called ‘Space...
tqw.at
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coney von 1Land ☮️✨🎩🌷🌈💚🌳🌏🌎🌍♀️⚖️ нетвойне @coneyvoneinland.bsky.social · 9d
Ralo Mayer: 47 Stoffe
Zeitgenössische Kunst
Ausstellung

landesgalerie-burgenland.at/ausstellunge...
@ralomayer.bsky.social
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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 23h
Heute vor 100 Jahren wurde der DEFA-Filmregisseur Konrad Wolf im schwäbischen Hechingen geboren.

#AnDiesemTag 🧵
Sharepic mit einem Foto von Konrad Wolf und dem Zitat: “Für den Frieden entscheiden vor allem Taten.” - Konrad Wolf, geboren am 20. Oktober 1925
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
The comics artist @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has just launched the collection of her amazing Nap Comix - she posts them up here on Bsky as well. They are very funny, but also enormously heartwarming. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fli...
Nap Comix
Bringing the acclaimed webcomic to life in graphic novel form
www.kickstarter.com
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21h
I somehow live in a reality where giving thought/consideration to the poor is a radical opinion.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 5d
"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." You should definitely read this, by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @isanchezprado.bsky.social
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
hyperallergic.com
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 5d
more details of the original www.mandarake.co.jp/ariaru/shop/...
Daisuke Terasawa Hand-Drawn Manuscript "WARASHI" Manuscript 3 piece set | ありある | まんだらけ MANDARAKE
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 5d
#manga #horror

Lesser known that other mangakas Daisuke Terasawa's Warashii was my first manga introduction to J-horror. It combined traditional Yōkai/yāoguài bestiary with some very literal jump-scare panels. It also features small person warashi (Japanese: 童子), an archaic term for a child.
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 5d
Also "pivoting", whenever Zack or other techbros start using such vocabulary, I think they're signaling the same loyalty as Palantir/Mithril crowd...
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 5d
#horror #culturalstudies #horrostudies

DieDieBooks will become my favorite horror book collection. Peruse their titles, support them, buy their books and you'll understand quickly why.
diediebooks.com
DieDieBooks: Killer Books on Horror Movies
DieDieBooks is a small press that publishes fun, research-driven books on horror movies. Our books are written for horror fans by horror fans who approach their work from a smart, personal critical pe...
diediebooks.com
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 6d
Another graphic novel review up from me - The Power Fantasy continues to be just so goddamn /interesting/, because it takes its premises the right amount of seriously and gets properly invested in what they would mean morally and philosophically. I am so here for it.
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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 5d
Contributors Wanted!
Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather?
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...
Contributors Wanted
Do you want to write for Nerds? Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together is looking for 3-5 awesome individuals to join our team of regular contri...
www.nerds-feather.com
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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 12d
Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).

26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 6d
“‘The Cybernetic Border’ is an exemplary project of disentangling border technologies from the language of progress and techno-solutionism.”
Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books
Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration
www.publicbooks.org
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Grégoire Barbey @gregoirebarbey.com · 7d
L'intelligence artificielle est-elle l'infrastructure du techno-fascisme? J'ai reçu @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social et @oliviertesquet.bsky.social, auteurs d'Apocalypse Nerds (Ed. Divergences) pour en parler dans ce nouvel épisode www.letemps.ch/podcasts/ia-...
Podcast – L'intelligence artificielle, infrastructure du techno-fascisme? - Le Temps
Une partie non négligeable des investisseurs et entrepreneurs de la Silicon Valley ne cachent pas leur fascination pour des idées eugénistes, racialistes et anti-démocratiques. IA qu'à m'expliquer reç...
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#woodwideweb #communism
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#Planetary
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#human #praxis
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#gender
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#marx
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Stefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 6d
#capitalism #gender
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