Mike Tondre ❌👑
@mltondre.bsky.social
English Prof. Oil (Bloomsbury, Object Lessons series), Oil! (Penguin), The Physics of Possibility (U of Virginia)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-9781501386626/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-9781501386626/
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Mike Tondre ❌👑
@mltondre.bsky.social
· Jan 13
12 books to prepare you for Trump 2.0 » Yale Climate Connections
These books, aimed at the general reader, can help you contextualize and respond to our current crises.
yaleclimateconnections.org
@climateconnections.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
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Summer in Florida: tumultuous rain, perfectly tiny dogs, and good books. @mltondre.bsky.social excited to read your introduction with my students in the fall :)
June 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Summer in Florida: tumultuous rain, perfectly tiny dogs, and good books. @mltondre.bsky.social excited to read your introduction with my students in the fall :)
Hooray!!!! ☀️
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
press.uchicago.edu
June 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Hooray!!!! ☀️
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We are in the courts each week. Visit www.newsanctuarynsc.org to get involved.
June 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We are in the courts each week. Visit www.newsanctuarynsc.org to get involved.
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On Tuesday, our members witnessed ICE and FBI agents kidnapping a man in front of his family after his immigration hearing at 290 Broadway. His case had NOT been dismissed by the immigration judge, and he was instructed that he would have time to gather evidence to support his case.
June 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
On Tuesday, our members witnessed ICE and FBI agents kidnapping a man in front of his family after his immigration hearing at 290 Broadway. His case had NOT been dismissed by the immigration judge, and he was instructed that he would have time to gather evidence to support his case.
A very short review of Allen MacDuffie's brilliant book:
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. By Allen MacDuffie
Nothing enrages environmentally conscious intellectuals quite like climate denial. But resentment for hardcore doubters and dupes, Allen MacDuffie writes,
academic.oup.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A very short review of Allen MacDuffie's brilliant book:
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
A short blog post from my book *Oil*: thanks to all the folks at Bloomsbury! @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
"The wreckage strewn by old petro-dreams has never been more manifest, and the question of how to build a more just and democratic future never more urgent."
New post from Michael Tondre—author of Oil—on the Literary Studies & Creative Writing Blog
💻 bit.ly/4kvYfIz
#environment #academicbluesky
New post from Michael Tondre—author of Oil—on the Literary Studies & Creative Writing Blog
💻 bit.ly/4kvYfIz
#environment #academicbluesky
"The Age of Oil" - Bloomsbury Literary Studies Blog
A skeptical take: “the age of oil” is a useful tagline for our burning world, but what the phrase doesn't name seems just as meaningful as everything that it does.
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February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A short blog post from my book *Oil*: thanks to all the folks at Bloomsbury! @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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“Monster soup”…perhaps a better title for the dirty water campaign.
February 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“Monster soup”…perhaps a better title for the dirty water campaign.
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404 has the details. But in a number of interviews w those who've interacted with the Musk gizmocrats, AI and integrating government systems with AI comes up repeatedly. This isn't surprising in itself. AI is big in all tech now. But fits with what is described here.
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
404 has the details. But in a number of interviews w those who've interacted with the Musk gizmocrats, AI and integrating government systems with AI comes up repeatedly. This isn't surprising in itself. AI is big in all tech now. But fits with what is described here.
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For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...
Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory
If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?
www.publicbooks.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...
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if there were reporting
"What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."
"What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
if there were reporting
"What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."
"What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."
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Join us Thursday, Jan. 30, for an urgent town hall for our members on immigration and the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in schools and hospitals. We'll be discussing Trump's mass deportation agenda & its harmful consequences.
Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...
Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...
January 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Join us Thursday, Jan. 30, for an urgent town hall for our members on immigration and the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in schools and hospitals. We'll be discussing Trump's mass deportation agenda & its harmful consequences.
Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...
Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...
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JP Morgan’s report of 2020 warns of the desperate urgency of climate action:"[delay] opens us up to potentially catastrophic outcomes, which might be impossible to reverse.” It beggars belief that they now backpedal on net zero promises. They have sold their children’s future for a mess of potage.
While flames engulf Los Angeles, the six largest U.S. banks have chosen to withdraw from the #climate UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance in the span of just one month. Trump boom coming for fossil fuel companies, and financial institutions would hate to miss out.
www.linkedin.com/posts/rentzh...
www.linkedin.com/posts/rentzh...
Ingmar Rentzhog on LinkedIn: #movethemoney #movethemoney
While flames engulf Los Angeles—fires even consuming a Bank of America office—the six largest U.S. banks, led by Bank of America, JPMorganChase, Citigroup USA…
www.linkedin.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
JP Morgan’s report of 2020 warns of the desperate urgency of climate action:"[delay] opens us up to potentially catastrophic outcomes, which might be impossible to reverse.” It beggars belief that they now backpedal on net zero promises. They have sold their children’s future for a mess of potage.
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Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff
@climateconnections.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
12 books to prepare you for Trump 2.0 » Yale Climate Connections
These books, aimed at the general reader, can help you contextualize and respond to our current crises.
yaleclimateconnections.org
January 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@climateconnections.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
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*Cringe* I have started a blog. Thanks @ruthtingay.bsky.social for the encouragement.
The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having.
Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk
The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having.
Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
*Cringe* I have started a blog. Thanks @ruthtingay.bsky.social for the encouragement.
The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having.
Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk
The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having.
Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk
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Another release of the day is "Deviant Matter" by @kwazana.bsky.social. Rot, jelly, ferment, and intoxication challenge us to think about resistance, race, and queer life across scales—from the molecular to the political.
A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.
A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.
December 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Another release of the day is "Deviant Matter" by @kwazana.bsky.social. Rot, jelly, ferment, and intoxication challenge us to think about resistance, race, and queer life across scales—from the molecular to the political.
A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.
A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.
My book OIL is out now in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series! Sharing a few images below—big thanks to everyone who helped bring it to life 🌿
www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
Oil
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains th…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
My book OIL is out now in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series! Sharing a few images below—big thanks to everyone who helped bring it to life 🌿
www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
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December 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
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The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.
December 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM
The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.
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Looking forward to presenting next week at the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for organizing the series--and so much else. Please join us on Monday 12/9 at 16:00 Central European time/10:00 Eastern. 🐋
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Online book talk: Jones, Rendered Obsolete – The Greenhouse
newnatures.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Looking forward to presenting next week at the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for organizing the series--and so much else. Please join us on Monday 12/9 at 16:00 Central European time/10:00 Eastern. 🐋
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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application season -- so sending this around again!
years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
MAs in English w Funding
docs.google.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM
application season -- so sending this around again!
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Announcing the Vcologies Working Group’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Such a great opportunity—see the CFP below for more details.
November 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Announcing the Vcologies Working Group’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Such a great opportunity—see the CFP below for more details.
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I've signed an open letter calling for a reform to the COP process, including only allowing countries actively trying to meet the Paris targets to host, and strengthening the mechanisms to hold countries accountable for their targets and commitments.
Read more: www.clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2...
Read more: www.clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2...
November 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
I've signed an open letter calling for a reform to the COP process, including only allowing countries actively trying to meet the Paris targets to host, and strengthening the mechanisms to hold countries accountable for their targets and commitments.
Read more: www.clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2...
Read more: www.clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2...