Dominic Boyer

@dominicboyer.bsky.social

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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 · 17h

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 · 4d

Coming soon to New Orleans!!

Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 10d

Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative

Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 15d

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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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 17d

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The Electrotech Revolution | Ember

The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 17d

The US govt doubling down on fossil fuels undermines even their own AI ambitions. Meanwhile EV sales in China went from ~5% of the market to nearly 50% IN JUST FIVE YEARS. "Electrotech" (as some are now calling it) is the global future. A full overview report in the first comment below...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 20d

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth

Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 20d

Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting...

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Spectral Remix

November 19-22, 2025

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 21d

Shameful and ridiculous thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...

Houston Erased Texas’ First-Ever Gay Pride Crosswalk in the Middle of the Night

Houston tore up the Montrose rainbow crosswalk last night, arresting four protestors who gathered at the intersection.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 23d

#NoKings Houston

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23d

#NoKings Cincinnati

Rally sign reads “I am Aunt Tifa. Heard you were looking for me!”

Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 25d

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FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US

In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 28d

New episode of Cultures of Energy ! What if we could create a new kind of "carbon bank" to incentivize drawing down CO2 to store it safely long term? Gustav Peebles + Ben Luzzatto tell us how. tinyurl.com/2meynbme @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)

We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture () and try to settle once and for all the Montreal vs New York bagel question. Then (13:58) we welcome to t...

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9

dear friends living in Georgia -- you've got a really important election coming up with a chance to take more democratic control over your power system. please listen to this podcast with all the details.. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... thanks!! D

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

Podcast Episode · Volts · 10/08/2025 · 1h 4m

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9

Fireside chat with Mette High and Vinnie Ialenti on nuclear energy in just a few hours time! @energy-ethics.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mette-...

Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate | Mette High

Don't miss my online 'fireside chat' with Vincent Ialenti, *today* Thursday 9 Oct at 4pm UK time. Note: We won't be recording this event, so make sure you register now and are ready to tune in: http:/...

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 7

If it feels like your electricity bill has been going up, it has been. Thank you, AI!

Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 6

That rarest of sightings this year - a tenure track academic job! www.schooljobs.com/careers/rama...

Job Opportunities | Ramapo College of New Jersey Careers

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 30

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We welcome Sean Field of @energy-ethics.bsky.social to talk about his new book Carbon Capital on the moral landscape of oil investing. A most provocative read! tinyurl.com/bdf2n82s @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)

There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week’s podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished to the podcast to talk about his pathbreaking new ethnography of oil and fin...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 23

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 15

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)

Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can’t fake the feels on this week’s intro to the podcast. Then (13:07) expert in all things Mancunian, the great and wondrous...

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Workers over billionaires!
Mission Dolores Park

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 31

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...

Cultures of Energy: 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)

Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...

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Roy Scranton @royscranton.bsky.social · Aug 21

"The world of tomorrow will be unrecognizable to those of us alive today, just as the world we live in today would have been unrecognizable to our ancestors."
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Embracing Ethical Pessimism in the Face of Near-Certain Climate Doom

The beginning is easy, nothing more American. A simple white Dutch chapel, founded in 1767, First Reformed—neither a ruin nor a monument but a humble working church. We see a hand writing, hear a v…

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Just a friendly reminder of how amazing your brain is. The original hyper efficient energy/information infrastructure…

Human Brains Beat AI by 225,000 Times in Energy Efficiency medium.com/write-a-cata...

Human Brains Beat AI by 225,000 Times in Energy Efficiency

The surprising science behind why your thoughts cost less than a lightbulb

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Can ethical pessimism save us from narcissistic optimism? We talk with @royscranton.bsky.social about his provocative new book Impasse from @stanfordpress.bsky.social - plus a live tape of our first time in an automated vehicle. tinyurl.com/mr2j5say

Cultures of Energy: 236 – Ethical Pessimism (feat. Roy Scranton)

Dominic reports from a delayed birthday trip to Los Angeles and we learn about how Mike Brady (of Brady Brunch fame) nearly perished in a helicopter crash. Then (5:55) Roy Scranton returns to the podc...

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 15

‘Global Glacier Casualty List’ honors ice giants that are melting away yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/glob...

‘Global Glacier Casualty List’ honors ice giants that are melting away » Yale Climate Connections

The website marks the loss of glaciers to global warming.

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