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Dominic Boyer
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energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

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Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics. He is the son of historian John W. Boyer. .. more

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 15h
New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about the entanglement of oil, labor and intimacy in the Caribbean with Chelsea Schields. Everything you ever wanted to know about petrosexuality but were afraid to ask! tinyurl.com/4pstevda @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields)
Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the delightful to talk about her recent book, (U California Pr...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 8d
For those coming to the AAA meetings in NOLA this week, come and see our monsters!

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Mollz @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 9d
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
I live in Chicago, here are some tips for dealing with the Black and Tans: Keep whistles on you to alert the neighborhood of ICE activities. Distribute whistles if you can. Post signage where people are taken, "ICE kidnapped someone here" is a powerful message. Stand firm in crosswalks or use your vehicle to obstruct ICE movement. Invite friends and family from rural areas to enjoy your cities, show them the only violence there is caused by the federal government. Post signage to alert your neighbor of the ICE activity. Record everything they do. Ask for warrants. They won't have one, but making them admit it is important. If they are on your private property, firmly tell them to leave. Sell them nothing and don't let them use restrooms. Protests. Protest. Protest. Every delay is a life saved. Remember, people aren't being deported, they are going missing.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 11d
Believe it or not Houston will soon be home to the largest 3d printed housing development in the world. It’s low income housing built to last for centuries instead of decades in one of Houston’s economically disadvantaged areas. Here’s a robot starting to make a house #ZuriGardens

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 13d
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 15d
New Cultures of Energy pod! Talking to Javiera Barandiarán about living minerals, rights of nature and the aftermath of the attempt to create a new Chilean constitution. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2v2r7w9m @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes’s amazing essay, “” which everyone should read. Then (15:20) we welcome Javiera Barandiarán to the podcast to talk about her new book, ...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 19d
Coming soon to New Orleans!!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 25d
Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25d
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 25d
Honoring the dead for Halloween and Day of the Dead… yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-...
The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers » Yale Climate Connections
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 29d
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 24
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The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 24
The US govt doubling down on fossil fuels undermines even their own AI ambitions. Meanwhile EV sales in China went from ~5% of the market to nearly 50% IN JUST FIVE YEARS. "Electrotech" (as some are now calling it) is the global future. A full overview report in the first comment below...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · Oct 21
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 21
Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting...

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Spectral Remix
November 19-22, 2025
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 20
Shameful and ridiculous thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...
Houston Erased Texas’ First-Ever Gay Pride Crosswalk in the Middle of the Night
Houston tore up the Montrose rainbow crosswalk last night, arresting four protestors who gathered at the intersection.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 18
#NoKings Houston

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Oct 18
#NoKings Cincinnati
Rally sign reads “I am Aunt Tifa. Heard you were looking for me!”

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 16
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FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US
In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 13
New episode of Cultures of Energy ! What if we could create a new kind of "carbon bank" to incentivize drawing down CO2 to store it safely long term? Gustav Peebles + Ben Luzzatto tell us how. tinyurl.com/2meynbme @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)
We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture () and try to settle once and for all the Montreal vs New York bagel question. Then (13:58) we welcome to t...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9
dear friends living in Georgia -- you've got a really important election coming up with a chance to take more democratic control over your power system. please listen to this podcast with all the details.. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... thanks!! D
Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025
Podcast Episode · Volts · 10/08/2025 · 1h 4m
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 9
Fireside chat with Mette High and Vinnie Ialenti on nuclear energy in just a few hours time! @energy-ethics.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mette-...
Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate | Mette High
Don't miss my online 'fireside chat' with Vincent Ialenti, *today* Thursday 9 Oct at 4pm UK time. Note: We won't be recording this event, so make sure you register now and are ready to tune in: http:/...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 7
If it feels like your electricity bill has been going up, it has been. Thank you, AI!

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Oct 6
That rarest of sightings this year - a tenure track academic job! www.schooljobs.com/careers/rama...
Job Opportunities | Ramapo College of New Jersey Careers
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 30
New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We welcome Sean Field of @energy-ethics.bsky.social to talk about his new book Carbon Capital on the moral landscape of oil investing. A most provocative read! tinyurl.com/bdf2n82s @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)
There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week’s podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished to the podcast to talk about his pathbreaking new ethnography of oil and fin...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 23
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 15
New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)
Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can’t fake the feels on this week’s intro to the podcast. Then (13:07) expert in all things Mancunian, the great and wondrous...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Sep 1
Workers over billionaires!
Mission Dolores Park

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Aug 31
New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...
Cultures of Energy: 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...
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