Moe Romanoff
@moerrx.bsky.social
Chicago 📍 PhD Candidate (Comp Lit) @ NU
Thinking about energy, borders, and extraction in North Asia/Siberia. Also interested in polar histories and the Siberian Arctic 🧊
co-editor: readlime.org
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Thinking about energy, borders, and extraction in North Asia/Siberia. Also interested in polar histories and the Siberian Arctic 🧊
co-editor: readlime.org
EN/ES/RU/中文/FR
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Provocation: Bob Frame et al (incl @widewhitestage.bsky.social) , "Monuments for the End of the World?: Antarctic Heritage Ecology in the Early Anthropocene" proposes a role for #envhum in formalizing a shift from predominantly historical to increasingly futures-focused heritage.
Monuments for the End of the World? | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Provocation: Bob Frame et al (incl @widewhitestage.bsky.social) , "Monuments for the End of the World?: Antarctic Heritage Ecology in the Early Anthropocene" proposes a role for #envhum in formalizing a shift from predominantly historical to increasingly futures-focused heritage.
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Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.
I’ll be sharing some more recent work as part of this symposium this Friday. It’s a hybrid event, so feel free to register to attend via Zoom (or in-person, rsvp required)!
Join us on Friday, October 24th for a symposium on Post-Soviet Indigeneity! Here, a diverse group of experts meet to explore the nature of indigenous identities in the post-Soviet space and how their unique histories shape our current perceptions.
jordanrussiacenter.org/events/post-...
jordanrussiacenter.org/events/post-...
Symposium: Post-Soviet Indigeneity Between Research and Resistance
This symposium brings together scholars, community organizers, artists and activists to explore complex histories of empire, colonization, nationalities...
jordanrussiacenter.org
October 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I’ll be sharing some more recent work as part of this symposium this Friday. It’s a hybrid event, so feel free to register to attend via Zoom (or in-person, rsvp required)!
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“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Overshooters | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
It was not the underprivileged who took the initiative. It was one Luke Iseman, merchant of hardware and software, founder of multiple companies, former director of a “tech incubator,” builder of art ...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:
August 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:
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Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon
Indigenomicon
www.dukeupress.edu
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon
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“My stepdad, Misha, has been digging around in the snowmobile all morning.”
Read “Freedom,” a short story by Kseniia Bolshakova—translated from the Dolgan by Kseniia Bolshakova and Ainsley Morse—in @wwborders.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Read “Freedom,” a short story by Kseniia Bolshakova—translated from the Dolgan by Kseniia Bolshakova and Ainsley Morse—in @wwborders.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Freedom - Words Without Borders
In Kseniia Bolshakova's “Freedom,” written in her native Dolgan, a child finds joyful escape from an everyday life marked by injustice.
wordswithoutborders.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“My stepdad, Misha, has been digging around in the snowmobile all morning.”
Read “Freedom,” a short story by Kseniia Bolshakova—translated from the Dolgan by Kseniia Bolshakova and Ainsley Morse—in @wwborders.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Read “Freedom,” a short story by Kseniia Bolshakova—translated from the Dolgan by Kseniia Bolshakova and Ainsley Morse—in @wwborders.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com
Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...
Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...
July 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com
Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...
Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...
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Today @nichecanada.bsky.social I introduce *A Cold Colonialism* — its origin story, its main characters and arguments, and its potential to shift how we think about exploration, the North, and colonialism’s relationships with both. Enjoy! #cdnhist #envhist #Arctic niche-canada.org/2025/06/03/n...
New Book – A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North
Framing exploration as an epistemic enterprise, or one concerned with the production of knowledge about environments, reveals it to be a more diverse and capacious activity than often believed.
niche-canada.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today @nichecanada.bsky.social I introduce *A Cold Colonialism* — its origin story, its main characters and arguments, and its potential to shift how we think about exploration, the North, and colonialism’s relationships with both. Enjoy! #cdnhist #envhist #Arctic niche-canada.org/2025/06/03/n...
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Here are some selected resources for faculty (or anyone) traveling in and out of the US this summer, compiled by CDAF @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org
May 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Here are some selected resources for faculty (or anyone) traveling in and out of the US this summer, compiled by CDAF @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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When I say you're the currency, I mean you. I don't mean your data or content, I mean you -- you surrender your affect, feeling, reasoning, discomfort, joy, etc., to extractive capitalism.
When you use AI, it uses you. You’re the currency.
It might seem free for now, but the costs to the future of human thinking/feeling by way of no longer writing/reading are going to be immense.
It might seem free for now, but the costs to the future of human thinking/feeling by way of no longer writing/reading are going to be immense.
May 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When I say you're the currency, I mean you. I don't mean your data or content, I mean you -- you surrender your affect, feeling, reasoning, discomfort, joy, etc., to extractive capitalism.
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In his essay for our series “The Cloud is Dead,” D&S affiliate @zgtcooper.bsky.social examines resource extraction in the Arctic and how fantasies of the Network State run counter to the reality of life in Greenland. datasociety.net/points/the-n...
April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In his essay for our series “The Cloud is Dead,” D&S affiliate @zgtcooper.bsky.social examines resource extraction in the Arctic and how fantasies of the Network State run counter to the reality of life in Greenland. datasociety.net/points/the-n...
really looking forward to this 🧊
April 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
really looking forward to this 🧊
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Theory of Water
Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Sarah Haley to celebrate the release of her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Sarah Haley to celebrate the release of her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
April 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Theory of Water
Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Sarah Haley to celebrate the release of her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Sarah Haley to celebrate the release of her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. Each of the twelve essays in this collection presents, analyzes, and contextualizes a primary source. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/politi...
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/politi...
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. Each of the twelve essays in this collection presents, analyzes, and contextualizes a primary source. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/politi...
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/politi...
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social