@calebwellum.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ICES/U of T Scarborough. Author of Energizing Neoliberalism. Researching energy cultures of the New Economy. Writer. EH [@energyhumanities.bsky.social] Editor. HigherEd Teacher.
we bid farewell to Habermas at precisely the historical moment in which the public sphere, which he theorized had taken shape in the 18th c. before going on to serve as the crucible for liberalism and modern democracy, has shattered under the assault of oligarchs and new technologies
This is an absolutely shocking proposal that would disrupt the very foundations of democratic accountability in Ontario #Onpoli #cdnfoi
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.
If, as historians @calebwellum.bsky.social & Meg Jacobs argue, the 1970s energy crises were the proving grounds for neoliberalism, what is the political economy that's likely to emerge from a new energy crisis?
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historians love a good periodization quarrel
It is also the world's largest oil consumer. There's some tension there, and there has been for a long time. I even wrote a book about it (and other things)! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds | Extreme heat | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.
snapshot of protests around the world since the war in iran began.
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I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
“Fossil Capital at Ten: Andreas Malm on Capitalism, Energy, and Resistance” is the seventh and final article included in Issue 40.1. This contribution features the transcription of an interview with Andreas Malm, as facilitated by Caleb Wellum and Imre Szeman: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inside Issue 8.3: A Q&A on the relationship between historical scholarship and the energy humanities. @imreszeman.bsky.social and @calebwellum.bsky.social facilitated a conversation with Cara Daggett, Bob Johnson, and Jennifer Wenzel on the state of the field.
Link below!
join us next Friday!
If you're in or near Calgary on March 6, I'm giving a lecture at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. It's free, so way cheaper than skiing in Banff. events.ucalgary.ca/arts/calgary...
In "Media Rurality," edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, contributors show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/M8lC4sJ
What's the ideal age range for this?
Reminds me of Leeds, circa 2008…
Ontario is being run into the ground by a premier who thinks boomerisms are a substitute for policy smfh
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
RIP Robert Duvall. Among his many great performances, I've long been partial to Tender Mercies (1983). www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu17...
RIP Robert Duvall. Among his many great performances, I've long been partial to Tender Mercies (1983). www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu17...
The OAH is running a discussion about history and democracy tomorrow morning, with three distinguished international scholars of US history as panelists. You can register here
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
and find a brief description if you scroll down here: www.oah.org/2026/01/13/u...
Highly recommended. JV isn't only a great writer. He's a compelling speaker, too!
One of my most anticipated books of 2026!
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
"imposed unnecessarily" 🙄
Check out the latest issue of Cultural Studies for an interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm on Fossil Capital, climate politics, and more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....