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Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition.

Podcast · By Dominic Boyer · English · Official site

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Sep 21, 2026
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Jul 13, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 21, 2026

    264 - Decolonial Endurance (feat. Ting Hui Lau) (opens the original)

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    Cymene offers an epic #CymRant against AI-gone-wild on this week's podcast. Then (17:07) we welcome Ting Hui Lau to the podcast to talk about her fascinating and moving new book, Decolonial Endurance , which focuses on how Lisu communities straddling Southwestern China and Myanmar maintain their Indigenous culture and sovereignty despite the developmental and ethnocolonial schemes targeting them. We start with why Ting thinks it's so important to put Critical Indigenous Studies and Asian Studies

  2. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    263 – Brokers of Power (feat. Conor Harrison) (opens the original)

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    Dominic and Cymene enjoy a confetti-free trip to Philadelphia on this special Labor Day edition of the podcast. To keep us company (12:24) we welcome Conor Harrison to the program to talk about his new book, Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System (U Minnesota Press, 2026). We start by discussing the variety of finance industry players operating in the energy sector and how their goals are not all the same. We delve into the deep history of energy and finance and how

  3. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    262 - Petroforms (feat. Helen Kapstein) (opens the original)

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    Cymene recounts her visit to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and we wonder whether students can be convinced that academic writing will improve their social lives. Then (17:30) we sit down with the marvelous Helen Kapstein to talk about her new book Petroforms : Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics (West Virginia UP, 2025). We begin with how oil seeks to evade both the commodity form and aesthetic forms, and how petrocriticism might respond. What is the true nature of our "blind spot" concer

  4. Episode · Aug 9, 2026

    261 - Building Postcarbon Futures (feat. Billy Fleming) (opens the original)

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    The Queen and King of Jetlag recount tales of airplane toilets, surprise geckos and AI abominations on this week's episode. Then (16:32) Billy Fleming saves the podcast by joining us to talk about his marvelous new book, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice and Energy Transitions (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026). We start with the legacy of the New Deal and how what actually happened in the infrastructural boom of the FDR years is often misremembered. We move from there to talking

  5. Episode · Jul 26, 2026

    260 - Pipeline Cinema (feat. Mona Damluji) (opens the original)

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    Your cohosts' electric summer adventure has brought them to Thailand! Dominic wonders if he will be allowed to eat Thai spicy food and Cymene reports about feeding baby elephants. Then (13:44) we welcome Mona Damluji to the podcast to discuss her new book, Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq (U California Press, 2025) av ailable as open access and paperback . We begin with how Mona discovered her own great grandfather in the archive of oil's cultural w

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