Thea Riofrancos

Tech Won’t Save Us

techwontsave.us

#greentransition
#resourcenationalism
#extraction
@triofrancos.bsky.social

thank you!!

this is a good book

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for...

This is a really insightful and informative episode with @nsrnicek.bsky.social particularly for how it pushes back against the leftist urge to dismiss AI as politically old hat and philosophically irrelevant thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

How did rare earth minerals become the focus of a geopolitical battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism?

Join us on 12 March 5.30-7pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a lecture by @triofrancos.bsky.social & discussion w/ @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social.

🔗 Register shorturl.at/GwbFh

Re-framing Trump’s wars through a focus on energy | Panel Hosted by RGS Climate Change Research Group, this panel centres on the crucial and geographical issue of energy transitions.

Join the Society's Climate Change Research Group for an upcoming panel on Monday 2 March, with Thea Riofrancos, Patrick Schröder, and Sean Kenji Starrs:

'The environmental politics of Donald Trump: re-framing Trump’s wars through a focus on energy'

https://ow.ly/jXVK50YkVis

I can now hear the whole song playing in my head ty

lol i’ve honestly hoped someone would do this 🙏

reading @triofrancos.bsky.social while listening to Nirvana
youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg?...

The Scramble for Lithium Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a rare earth mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

At least some folks know about the deadly aspects of extraction etc. of #fossilfuels #coal #oil #gas
Thea Riofrancos has been doing phenomenal work in helping everyone understand the story behind the #clean technologies of the future.
#solar #batteries #EV #wind

Where Capital and Nature Meet Thea Riofrancos speaks to The BREAK—DOWN about the rise of the lithium industry, the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.

“We have a name for this paradigm in which Global South countries are net providers of raw materials: ‘unequal exchange’ on the economic front & ‘unequal ecological exchange’ on the environmental front.”

- @triofrancos.bsky.social @the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/where-capita...

Yes, this is a recurrent issue and I myself have corrected it in many publications. Thanks!

That's correct (and not described as such in my book), I will likely alert the editors if they want to fix. The whole 'REE' label is a bit problematic, bc actual REEs are also not geographically rare, as I also discuss in the book.

Thrilled that EXTRACTION was reviewed with such care and detail in @thenation.com magazine www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Scramble for Lithium Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a rare earth mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.

If reducing emissions and reversing global warming means using low-carbon energy sources to “electrify everything,” it will require scouring the earth for minerals, like lithium. Casey A. Williams reviews @triofrancos.bsky.social's "Extraction." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

He conversado con Daniel Denvir, periodista y creador del podcast The Dig, sobre el avance del trumpismo y la extrema derecha en ambos lados del Atlántico.

Es necesario que sigamos tejiendo un internacionalismo democrático que haga frente al miedo, el racismo y el autoritarismo.

Excited to read this!!

US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home We must phase out fossil fuels—not endlessly reshuffle environmental sacrifice zones around the planet, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.

Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social

"The machines were coming in for the purpose of diminishing their income. They were coming in for that purpose. They were not coming in for the purpose of enhancing life or reducing the hours of toil or improving the products of the human hand. In fact the human hand is on its way out"

Phenomenal and crystal clear historical analysis, and it makes an excellent companion piece with @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s boom Blood in the Machine

This two parter is excellent; one of the best historical arguments about the construction of crime policy I’ve heard in a long long time

Ty!!

Thanks Matt!

This is great (of course)

This is so good

i'm the biggest Dig fan there is and i gotta say this one really warmed my heart, just a real pleasure to listen to smart people who really care

Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist ...

The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...

Join us for this Haymarket Presents speakers series event, with Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Pilsen… Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction

LIVE NOW!

Extraction

Haymarket Presents: @triofrancos.bsky.social in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

With @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw5...
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Why did Biden's climate policies fail to cement EVs in US life? Only well-off ppl have been buying lots of new cars—IRA leaned into that.

The EV subsidies for expensive cars had income caps—but were de facto most relevant for buyers earning just under the limit. Not much help for working class.

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Yet another very informative episode. This is, by far, my favorite podcast, and @parismarx.com is a great host and interviewer.