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.
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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.
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“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...
Cover of Media Rurality edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney. The cover photograph depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground. The title appears in mixed serif and sanserif fonts in large type on the top left of the cover. The editors' names are in small caps immediately below.
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....
Highly recommended. Eva-Lynn Jagoe is a wonderful teacher!
“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
When I think back to being an undergrad, many of my most memorable classes were taught by ppl who were not efficient, well prepared teachers but were ppl who lived in a way I aspired to live. No one aspires to be AI.
I have a whole week on energy and extraction planned for H-Environment Reviews! #envhist #envhum #extraction #mining 🔋🪫🛢️🪨
When I was Vice President I took the Post only for the Sports section. I got rid of the rest. I didn’t want my girls to see it.
Ned Beatty monologue: undefeated
And after that, The Atomic Cafe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AymB...
I’m so mad that AI made the em dash sus
Can we have a moratorium on lazy op-ed analyses about the purported characteristics of and differences between generations? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
Big. Very big.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate
Fascinating from @simonmundy.ft.com, apologies for the coffee stain but the administration’s own numbers are worth it: solar predicted to rise by 46% in next two years and (Don Quixote notwithstanding) wind by 12%. www.ft.com/content/b52c...