Excited to share a new paper in @societyandspace.bsky.social, co-authored with 8 graduate students from a Fall 2023 Black Geographies Seminar. I am grateful for them and our collaborators at Highlander, BattleField Farm, and the Children’s Defense Fund/Alex Haley Farm. doi.org/10.1177/0263...

The war on Iran about oil. Its about the US's declining grip on the future A regime of energy abundance is emerging. It won't stop climate change below 3C. It is upending the existing structure of global production, displacing the US from it centre tinyurl.com/mtuuwwu5 | @theecologist.org

compelling article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social -- "The Metabolic Rift in Radical Geography: Massimo Quaini and the Territoriality of the Ecological Crisis" Pasquale Pennacchio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

bought some veggie sausages advertised as "27g protein" which the label says is now only 4% of recommended daily value lol

I know a lot about petty regional grievances, but LeBron's Ohioan hatred of Memphis has me lost

obviously a good portion of the Forest Service is DOGE-style austerity slash and burn. but closing regional offices in favor of states is devolution of federal authority to reactionary local power. South Dakota forest management e.g. is gonna be pure fireworks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Henri Lefebvre wasn't a fan of previous missions to the moon - "the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space" (La Fin de l’histoire in 1970, p. 212, Key Writings, p. 182).

I have gotten EIGHT peer review invitations in March 2026. I really try to say "yes" but that is WAY too many for one person (I've already done five since January and have two more on deck).

The Atlantic article "plants the image...'not of tunnels perhaps, but of whispered channels: mosques that doubled as surveillance nodes, schools and ministries laced with informants...A hidden circulatory system beneath the city’s surface.'" www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ren...

Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ "Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism." - Andreas Malm

dream: an author meets critics session on my book. all three discussannts were noise musicians, and their commentary was only guitar feedback and the like. I had to respond with words.

I read this book when i was like 22 after picking it up at the US Social Forum in Detroit. now a bunch of these ppl are my friends and comrades and we continue to work on this stuff. writing about this history reminds me that if you think someone is doing cool work you can just like...do it w them

ok, this is an oddity. 1915 thesis on "swamp land drainage" in...political science? curious to read...

I have a couple of speaking events in Oregon and Ohio to kick off the end of the semester/summer transition. say 'hi' if you're around! more details to come

one benefit of going to a teen rock show is that I'm a foot taller than everyone

today at #AAG2026 I'll be presenting my work on subsurface geographies at 10:10am! Then at 12:50, an author meets critics on Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts

today at #AAG2026 I'll be responding to some brilliant papers at this session on "Santa Cruz School of Political Ecology, Past and Future 2: New Directions." 2:30pm! #geosky

today at #AAG2026 I'll be discussing this (and what comes next!) at 10:10am aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/aag2026/soli...

Deborah Cowen, professor at University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning, described the divestment policy as “a crucial step toward transforming AAG into a professional organization that reflects its members’ values.”

For immediate release: American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy #geography #aag2026 #geosky

amazing - VA GA overturns ban on public sector collective bargaining...excluding higher education. what a farce.

Fox News was on at the gym over the weekend and the chyron said "WOKE MAPPING" to refer to gerrymandering and honestly I've gotta hand it to them, it's been rattling around in my head like Beat It for 48 hours.

GJP has organized five panels concerning BDS, scholasticide, Israeli regional politics, Black geographies and Palestinian liberation, and the use of geosciences in war. We also invite you to a Zine release launch on Tuesday evening; RSVP at linktr.ee/geog4pal

if you're at AAG next week, come say hi to me at any of these talks and events!

down to a mere three abstracts referencing deleuze at aag this year

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is it OK that the introduction to my 12 minute AAG talk is 9 minutes long

review of Karsty Hydrology of Mammoth Cave in Progress in Physical Geography -- "it's too bad this book is $50 because tens of thousands of people might read it."

think i might start off my next book with "one of my goals is to provide research into situations in which the state of knowledge is hopelessly inadequate."

since it's spring break and I'm traveling next week anyway, I'm simply choosing to not observe daylight savings time

students: "what are you doing for spring break, Kai?!?" me:

going to invent a new kind of social scientist who gives all my interlocutors Pynchon character names. this insight from Veronica P. Riverbottoms. a similar situation attested to by Major Rutherford "Leaky" Wellsely. etc.

Hellworld cover art has been released

I showed my students the "You wouldn't steal a car" PSA and they said it made file sharing seem extremely cool??!?

it feels like UPE sort of abandoned the concept of 'hinterland' and the kind of (admittedly difficult) scalar work that was so important to e.g. Nature's Metropolis. i know there have been critiques of this "methodological cityism." is my hunch wrong? are there monographs that buck this trend?

doesn't seem to be much media coverage or social awareness of ongoing ICE crackdown in Baltimore?

My latest for @grist.org: Pipeline giant Enbridge will pay for police to respond to potential Indigenous-led protests as it begins construction of the controversial Line 5 reroute around the Bad River reservation grist.org/indigenous/e...

wild how few politicians (globally) will condemn this, even out of self-interest. one would think there's at least some lane of popular support they could garner if out of no reason other than differentiation

beginning every AAG speaking endeavor with "i acknowledge that everything i'm about to say is completely insufficient to this moment and the horror i wake up with on a daily basis."

after finally going through his earlier movies, I've concluded Radu Jude might be one of the most consistently great filmmakers we've got right now. and seemingly has decent politics to boot.

for some reason, I expected Stoner was gonna be a "life of the mind" book, not a 1930s combo of hating your wife, grade grubbing drama, and academic sex scandal

"The rational is thus naturalized, while nature cloaks itself in nostalgias which supplant rationality" -- lefebvre banger

Lesson number 5 from 'Melt the ICE' organizers: Intervention Points and Secondary Targets "...any street corner can become a site of struggle between state forces and the people. Renée Good’s memorial site, Alex Pretti’s memorial site, and the Whipple Federal Building..."

a parent asked me if the city is safe for students and I was able to quite honestly answer that the thing that makes me most afraid on campus is being hit by a car

Paywalled but the headline gets to the heart of it. They have no where to put the toxic water after blasting it into the ground to try to hide it. Now it's coming back. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

even the most erudite critics can't resist making a disparaging comment about Pynchon character names

the era when this was the minneapolis anthem was insane. punks would pour out of the walls when they played it. had to post and found that apparently I was the one to upload it to youtube lol. youtu.be/LETZ7IVTwKA?...

why does dentist office combine calming fish tank with enraging morning talk show cranked to 11

AAG reform idea I had last night - change annual meeting to every other year, while pushing the regional meetings. reinvigorates regionals, cheaper, less carbon, easier to build relationships, esp w grad students.

every single search engine is convinced I'm interested in "knight and day" (2010) rather than "night and day" (2008). odd bad pun exceeding a rather basic phrase.