Matthias Schmelzer
@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Prof Uni Flensburg • economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH • antifascism • opinions my own
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20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
October 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
Reposted by Matthias Schmelzer
9/ In their historical analysis of the transition from wood to coal, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social & Melissa Büttner have shown how living in in fossil fuel based societies has shaped and constrained our imaginaries in many different ways that we often overlook.
Fossil mentalities: How fossil fuels have shaped social imaginaries
With the concept of “fossil mentalities” and “fossil imaginaries” we introduce an analytical toolkit for historically informed and socially differenti…
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October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
9/ In their historical analysis of the transition from wood to coal, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social & Melissa Büttner have shown how living in in fossil fuel based societies has shaped and constrained our imaginaries in many different ways that we often overlook.