Kai Bosworth
@kaibosworth.bsky.social
Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
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Kai Bosworth
@kaibosworth.bsky.social
· Oct 9
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"
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Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy
Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury
Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.
virginiamercury.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy
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Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
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November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
interesting history of practical attempts at "geo-psychiatry," as promoted by Agnès Masson briefly during a stint at Saint-Alban. here geo-psychiatry is described as "integration with human geography," though practically seems to just mean going outside.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...
Women of the Collective — Parapraxis
Care and politics around Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital: 1930–1960 Joana Masó TRANSLATED BY PERWANA NAZIF AND JESSE NEWBERG
www.parapraxismagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
interesting history of practical attempts at "geo-psychiatry," as promoted by Agnès Masson briefly during a stint at Saint-Alban. here geo-psychiatry is described as "integration with human geography," though practically seems to just mean going outside.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...
ok krasznahorkai finally got me with the beekeeping eco marxist forest ranger lolol
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
ok krasznahorkai finally got me with the beekeeping eco marxist forest ranger lolol
been thinking about this all day -- just a perfect example of the impossibility of liberal institutional neutrality! they called it antisemitism that so many companies operating in Israel kept popping up on the human rights filter - wonder why! and now Morningstar will no longer consult UN HRC 🤔
important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
How a Giant of Responsible Investing Agreed to an Israel Exception
After a multi-year campaign by Jewish groups, Morningstar—a major firm known for socially responsible investing—is softening its approach to Israeli human…
jewishcurrents.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
been thinking about this all day -- just a perfect example of the impossibility of liberal institutional neutrality! they called it antisemitism that so many companies operating in Israel kept popping up on the human rights filter - wonder why! and now Morningstar will no longer consult UN HRC 🤔
Reposted by Kai Bosworth
important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
How a Giant of Responsible Investing Agreed to an Israel Exception
After a multi-year campaign by Jewish groups, Morningstar—a major firm known for socially responsible investing—is softening its approach to Israeli human…
jewishcurrents.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
can't tell whether twitter or bluesky is more of a "dead internet" at this point. both seem to have just completely gutted any attempts at interaction, can't post anything that finds its audience.
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
can't tell whether twitter or bluesky is more of a "dead internet" at this point. both seem to have just completely gutted any attempts at interaction, can't post anything that finds its audience.
unprompted Google chrome pop up asking if I want it to do my homework for me
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
unprompted Google chrome pop up asking if I want it to do my homework for me
best recent works in feminist STS?
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
best recent works in feminist STS?
"There is no such thing as “professional neutrality.” Instead, there are those who know what they think by arriving at a critical—and self-critical—account of themselves and the world, and there are those who don’t bother doing this."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla
A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.
www.thenation.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"There is no such thing as “professional neutrality.” Instead, there are those who know what they think by arriving at a critical—and self-critical—account of themselves and the world, and there are those who don’t bother doing this."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
sincere post -- does anyone have any tips for working with a specific kind of student who: is smart, comes to class, but has some kind of block that prevents them from doing assignments? often put too much pressure on themselves. i have encountered a few of these over the years, would love help
October 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
sincere post -- does anyone have any tips for working with a specific kind of student who: is smart, comes to class, but has some kind of block that prevents them from doing assignments? often put too much pressure on themselves. i have encountered a few of these over the years, would love help
any major engagement with sohn-rethel in geography?
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
any major engagement with sohn-rethel in geography?
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"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux
Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.
www.e-flux.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
grading papers today and it's ai ai ai ai ai ai ai
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
grading papers today and it's ai ai ai ai ai ai ai
i know Verso got screwed over by their distributor going bankrupt and there's also inflation etc...but i'm still having some sticker shock from $40-$50 price tags
October 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
i know Verso got screwed over by their distributor going bankrupt and there's also inflation etc...but i'm still having some sticker shock from $40-$50 price tags
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Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!
newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"
really cool posts on the Verso blog from Eric Sheppard (last week) and Helga Leitner (below), on David Harvey's early work. wonder who they might have lined up for later books?
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
A View from Outside-In
It is 1973, and Social Justice and the City had just been published by Edward Arnold in London. I was a student at the University of Vienna in the Geography and Urban Planning program my fellow studen...
www.versobooks.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
really cool posts on the Verso blog from Eric Sheppard (last week) and Helga Leitner (below), on David Harvey's early work. wonder who they might have lined up for later books?
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
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October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
my mom (south dakota npr listener) somehow went from Stacy Abrams to the bell hooks book about class??
October 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
my mom (south dakota npr listener) somehow went from Stacy Abrams to the bell hooks book about class??
some of my students this semester working on a political ecology of "pickleball gentrification"
October 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
some of my students this semester working on a political ecology of "pickleball gentrification"
I'll be at Anthropocene Consequences with many comrades later this month. should be a compelling conversation in Chicago. much more info on the website
ac-chicago.org
ac-chicago.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'll be at Anthropocene Consequences with many comrades later this month. should be a compelling conversation in Chicago. much more info on the website
ac-chicago.org
ac-chicago.org
I reviewed the new John Hultgren book - definitely of interest to geographers and political ecologists of all stripes! the book made me consider questions like how to understand anti-environmentalism as a global project, and whether it really is jobs vs the environment
Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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www.h-net.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I reviewed the new John Hultgren book - definitely of interest to geographers and political ecologists of all stripes! the book made me consider questions like how to understand anti-environmentalism as a global project, and whether it really is jobs vs the environment
What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG?
Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.
Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.
September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM