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Dominic Boyer
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energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

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Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics. He is the son of historian John W. Boyer. .. more

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 1d
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
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...
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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · 15h
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 4d
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....

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 10d
Hitting the accelerator on the race to the bottom!

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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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 13d
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.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you for these very kind words, Shuji!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 15d
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
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 22d
Cory Doctorow on AI, the money-losingest technology in human history…

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24d
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
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Maxime Polleri @maximepolleri.bsky.social · 25d
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
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...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26d
here we go
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26d
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 28d
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
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Jan 9
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...
“Communication Efforts to Educate the Public about Vanishing Glaciers, 1958-2025” | Annals of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
“Communication Efforts to Educate the Public about Vanishing Glaciers, 1958-2025”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Jan 1
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.
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
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Dec 27
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: 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...
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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 8
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!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Dec 8
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!
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Dec 7
And please see ggcl.rice.edu for the most recent chapter of the same project…

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 25
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
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 17
For those coming to the AAA meetings in NOLA this week, come and see our monsters!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 13
Believe it or not Houston will soon be home to the largest 3d printed housing development in the world. It’s low income housing built to last for centuries instead of decades in one of Houston’s economically disadvantaged areas. Here’s a robot starting to make a house #ZuriGardens

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · Nov 12
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:
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...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 10
New Cultures of Energy pod! Talking to Javiera Barandiarán about living minerals, rights of nature and the aftermath of the attempt to create a new Chilean constitution. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2v2r7w9m @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes’s amazing essay, “” which everyone should read. Then (15:20) we welcome Javiera Barandiarán to the podcast to talk about her new book, ...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Nov 6
Coming soon to New Orleans!!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 31
Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative
emorwee.bsky.social Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Oct 31
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Oct 31
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 31
Honoring the dead for Halloween and Day of the Dead… yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-...
The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers » Yale Climate Connections
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 27
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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