Dominic Boyer

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!

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Cultures of Energy: 249 - Weathering (feat. Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton) Dominic and Cymene talk about their Cathostant (or is it Protelic?) families in this week’s intro segment. And then (11:59) we are thrilled to be joined by and to discuss their work as the Weatherin...

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 assistant@mollycrabapple.com and we will hook you up

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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.

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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...

Cultures of Energy: 248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille) Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welcome and to the podcast to dis...

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!)

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Cultures of Energy: 248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille) Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welcome and to the podcast to dis...

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....

Texas Pauses Use of H-1B Visas at State Universities Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered all state colleges and universities to freeze their applications for new H-1B visas, The Texas Tribune reported. The pause, announced Tuesday afternoo...

Hitting the accelerator on the race to the bottom!

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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.

"Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports"

Thank you for these very kind words, Shuji!

Cultures of Energy: 247 - Feeding the Future (feat. Nicole Negowetti) We kick things off this week with a short but heartfelt celebration of the tenth anniversary of the podcast. Several friends—Geoff Bowker, Heather Davis, Imre Szeman, John Grzinich, Karen Pinkus and T...

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.

Cultures of Energy: 246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri) Happy 2026! It’s been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow’s reinvention as a fly assassin. Then (17:18) we welcome to the conversation to talk a...

Thank you to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for inviting me to their podcast "Culture of Energy." Check it out!
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#energy #anthropology #nuclear #disaster #Japan #Anthropocene

here we go

Cultures of Energy: 246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri) Happy 2026! It’s been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow’s reinvention as a fly assassin. Then (17:18) we welcome to the conversation to talk a...

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...

Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025 Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page

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.

Cultures of Energy: 245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;) Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the year of AI, we let ChatGPT create a Year in Review episode stru...

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...

Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz) In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...

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!

Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz) In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...

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…

Cultures of Energy: 243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields) Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the delightful to talk about her recent book, (U California Pr...

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!

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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: