Jessica Madison Pískatá

That bottle of Хараа is giving me flashbacks of blacking out during Women’s Day 2012.

Albino squirrel on a branch

There is no Hell strong enough to hold Yeobie down.

“No social order is inevitable. No structure of power or inequality is fixed. Adaptability has defined our species since its origins.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...

Menswear influencers telling people to only buy European cashmere

Big things going down on Threads.

Abstract slightly abridged for Bluesky—dm me if you’d like the full version 4/4

This panel is an invitation to think with non-humans as lively residues of past ecological actions—actions intricately bound with deep geological and atmospheric processes, colonial and imperial histories, secular regimes of knowledge, and ongoing capitalist extraction. 3/4

Extending these insights, the panel turns to spectral ecologies—those environmental phenomena that resist capture by conventional materialist logics…spectral ecologies register environmental presences that flicker at the edge of perception, destabilizing linear notions of time, space, and matter 2/4

Feminist and multispecies perspectives—from Anna Tsing’s notion of more-than-human socialities to Astrida Neimanis’s hydrofeminism and Michelle Murphy’s decolonial chemical relations—have offered anthropology tools for rethinking human-environment relations as…entanglements that exceed the human 1/4

Hey Anthros! Looking for a panel at #AAA2025Nola? Interested in spectral ecologies beyond the metaphorical? Submit your abstracts to jmadison@oberlin.edu and zsuhaimi@ucsc.edu. Discussant Deirdre de la Cruz.

Panel abstract in replies:

Academics be normal about people having or not having kids challenge

And yes I see now I need to get a second headshot

Poster reading “The Mountain Unearthed: Uncanny Geological Futures in a Mongolian mining town. Jessica Madison Pískatá, Oberlin College. 4:30pm Tuesday April 22nd room e53

Hi Boston-area friends! I’ll be at MIT anthro on 4/22 talking about Mongolian eco-horror for their Living Climate Futures lab. Come on down, I’d love to see you there.

“I sit despairing.
You sit despairing.
When we are sad together
Night falls.”

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

Arizona overlap hat says Ariana

Getting ready for the new season of Vanderpump

Screenshot with a fish mug and the label “y’all are loving this fish mug”

While I don’t like being called “y’all” by the New York Times I AM loving this fish mug

It is eerie to be preparing for print the memoir and poems of Vernon Duke—who, like so many artistic émigrés in the mid-20th century, found peace in the Palisades—as his beloved neighborhood is wiped away.

A nuclear deal to tip the scale? With the Franco-Mongolian uranium deal due to be decided, there is a growing unease over the elephant in the room – Russia

Today, the Parliament of Mongolia - Ikh Khural, approved the draft Investment Agreement with the French nuclear giant Orano to develop a $1.65 bln Zuuvch Ovoo mine. Soon the IA will be signed.

My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance.
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...

Good idea/bad idea? Watching “Nightbitch” while 3 weeks post-partum.

On offering and forgiveness at Altan Ovoo’s national Tahilga Figure 1. Altan Ovoo enjoys a night concert © Jessica Madison Pískatá, 2018 In the summer of 2018, on the grassland steppe of Mongolia near the eastern border with China, the district of Dar’ganga...

Thank you! It’s indeed a pretty uniquely inspiring spot! I’m currently working on a manuscript that has a longer chapter exploring the energy center. I do have an article about a different pilgrimage site that came out a few years ago if you’re interested: journals.openedition.org/emscat/5119

The Altai band - Jingle Bells (mongolian version) YouTube video by musicagencymn

Happy Altai Band jingle bells day to all of us

m.youtube.com/watch?si=gdd...

Wrote a short piece on the Shambala Energy Center in the Mongolian Gobi for @religionssrc.bsky.social
Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️

Current contributors include Evan Berry, Terra Rowe, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social, Mario Orospe, and @dominicboyer.bsky.social. Our final essay by Judith Brunton, will be published soon.

Climate Futures This topic focuses on two key questions: what is the relationship between religion and climate change? And what kinds of alternative climate futures can we imagine through the lens of religion?

I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social.

In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.

intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...

Spotify wrapped screenshot that says “February was your Pirate ritual throat singing” phase. You were really into artists like The Hu, Yat-Kha, and Sainkho Namtchlak.

Excuse me???? Pirate?? Somebody come shoot this new Spotify robot.

we're all post-soviet now
www.ft.com/content/b713...

And don’t even START trying to water this down: hauntings ❌ specters ❌ traces ❌ apparitions ❌
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA