New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast featuring Dr. Ciruce Mohavedi-Lankarani and his new book Accelerant and what it tells us abt how petroleum became central to Iranian nationalism. A must-read book. Please listen & share! tinyurl.com/bdydm3u5 @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

New episode of Cultures of Energy! We're talking with Fernando Ortiz-Moya about shrinking cities and different ways to think about urban regeneration (outside the growth-is-always-good paradigm). Please listen and share with that special urbanist in your life :) tinyurl.com/yc3rpcx5

really enjoyed this conversation with Rafico and esp his take on drifting as a method

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! A deep dive into disappearing waste w/ Dan Sosna. We talk abt wastepicking as "quiet sustainability," the embodied reality of circular economy & tech futurists penchant for genocidal thinking. tinyurl.com/4bzk99b7 @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

This week is the 10th anniversary of the Houston’s Tax Day floods. The worst of the storm hit in rural Waller County. But the impact was terrible: cows drowned in their pastures. At CFAR we’ve studied what if that storm hit urban Houston instead. The results are a wake up call: tinyurl.com/2pmbu4re

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We chat with Casper Bruun Jensen about his new volume, Southern Anthropocenes, cosmopolitics, utopias and much more! tinyurl.com/4xcrbzc6

#NoKings #HTX biggest one yet!

New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk with brilliant multimedia artist Zina Saro-Wiwa about deep listening, masquerade, the voice of oil, the resilience of Ogoni culture, landscape and foodways and so much more. tinyurl.com/3kmu4ssr @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk energy democracy and the politics of dealing with recalcitrant utilities together w/ Nikki Luke! Listen & enjoy to this, the 250th episode of this humble podcast. @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4nxnanfn

This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

New ep. of Cultures of Energy w/ Astrida Neimanis & Jennifer Hamilton & their brilliant new book "How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change." Ecofeminism, back & better than ever. Pls listen/share! tinyurl.com/5vatahmx @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

If you're in a city under seige by ICE, and you'd like a stack of 25-50 posters to distribute, message [email protected] and we will hook you up

1/ Everyone’s talking about AI datacenters needing more power. But the real problem isn’t just how much power they use. It’s how they use it. Off-grid data centers won’t work, so most are looking at hybrid approaches.

Insight into what is happening to people the regime deports. And blue state pension funds are financing this. Possibly unwittingly. So let them know! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out. Coincidence? I think not. (Thank you both!) cenhs.libsyn.com/248-maintena...

While everyone else is celebrating orchestrated violence and planned obsolescence on Super Bowl Sunday, why not turn to the new episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast which is all about care, maintenance & repair :) @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3phnedrh

If anyone, especially outside the US, is wondering how the US public became so susceptible to misinformation and insanity, this graphic tells an important part of that tale....

Hitting the accelerator on the race to the bottom! www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

TIME AND WATER premieres today @Sundance. It centers on our friend & collaborator Andri Snaer Magnason & his family across generations. It's about melting glaciers & what they mean for a country with "ice" (the good kind) in its name. But even more about what connects us in times of transformation.

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! 10th anniversary celebration plus @cymene.bsky.social speaks with Nicole Negowetti about the need to reform the global food system & the role of regenerative agriculture in making that happen. @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4af89w96

Cory Doctorow on AI, the money-losingest technology in human history…

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Thank you to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for inviting me to their podcast "Culture of Energy." Check it out! cenhs.libsyn.com/246-radioact... www.cymene.xyz/podcast www.dominicboyer.org/podcasts #energy #anthropology #nuclear #disaster #Japan #Anthropocene

here we go

Cultures of Energy pod is w/ a terrific conversation w/ Maxime Polleri abt his new book Radioactive Governance which looks at the first 15 years of the Fukushima disaster & various efforts to downplay its significance. If you think nuclear energy is a solution listen to this: tinyurl.com/386bhpcb

New essay in Annals of Glaciology (with Cymene Howe) reviewing several decades of efforts to call attention to melting glaciers and the impact of glacier loss on human communities... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn. Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains. No one becomes this rich by working. They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.

Final Cultures of Energy pod for 2025. A Year in Review episode featuring some serious AI slop. See you in 2026 everyone!! cenhs.libsyn.com/245-2025-yea...

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

And please see ggcl.rice.edu for the most recent chapter of the same project…

New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about the entanglement of oil, labor and intimacy in the Caribbean with Chelsea Schields. Everything you ever wanted to know about petrosexuality but were afraid to ask! tinyurl.com/4pstevda @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

For those coming to the AAA meetings in NOLA this week, come and see our monsters!

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Believe it or not Houston will soon be home to the largest 3d printed housing development in the world. It’s low income housing built to last for centuries instead of decades in one of Houston’s economically disadvantaged areas. Here’s a robot starting to make a house #ZuriGardens

It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social

New Cultures of Energy pod! Talking to Javiera Barandiarán about living minerals, rights of nature and the aftermath of the attempt to create a new Chilean constitution. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2v2r7w9m @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Coming soon to New Orleans!!

Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative

Honoring the dead for Halloween and Day of the Dead… yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-...

New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

The US govt doubling down on fossil fuels undermines even their own AI ambitions. Meanwhile EV sales in China went from ~5% of the market to nearly 50% IN JUST FIVE YEARS. "Electrotech" (as some are now calling it) is the global future. A full overview report in the first comment below...

36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Jfc.

Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting... www.spectralremix.org

Shameful and ridiculous thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...

#NoKings Houston