Mallory James
@secondordersocialresearch.com
political economy & engineering studies research. neurodiverse, first-generation college student, she/her. PhD anthropology, Chicago. academic writing teacher. energy expert on non-normative terms.
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Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan.
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P153: Opacity and Energy Knowledge: Getting to Just, Sustainable Energy Policy in a Polarizing World [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]
This panel explores changing cultural visibility and opacity of energy in anthropological research and impacts on energy justice and sustainability. It asks how scholars might contribute to “energy w...
nomadit.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan.
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
"An interdisciplinary team is not a group of people trained in 'interdisciplinarity'. It’s a group of people who have deep knowledge and sound judgment in their disciplines."
Interesting point I just stumbled across here: theconversation.com/why-the-inte... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Interesting point I just stumbled across here: theconversation.com/why-the-inte... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Why the ‘interdisciplinary’ push in universities is actually a dangerous antidisciplinary trend
Talk of “breaking down the barriers” is all too often a cover for breaking down academic disciplines to create administrative flexibility.
theconversation.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"An interdisciplinary team is not a group of people trained in 'interdisciplinarity'. It’s a group of people who have deep knowledge and sound judgment in their disciplines."
Interesting point I just stumbled across here: theconversation.com/why-the-inte... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Interesting point I just stumbled across here: theconversation.com/why-the-inte... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
I haven't lived in DC for quite a while, but somehow I still was invited to this #Anthropology event, which I am appreciatively watching a recording of now: youtube.com/watch?v=6_1Q...
Surviving DOGE: Anthropological Adaptations and Career Shifts
YouTube video by Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists
youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I haven't lived in DC for quite a while, but somehow I still was invited to this #Anthropology event, which I am appreciatively watching a recording of now: youtube.com/watch?v=6_1Q...
With co-authors @dschiff.bsky.social, @ketraschmitt.bsky.social (& a few more not on Bluesky) I just finished a peer-reviewed editorial about #automation and the future of work that uses the Anthropic case as a jumping-off point: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... (2/2)
Special Issue Editorial: Extraction by Design—AI, Value, and the Future of Work
ieeexplore.ieee.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
With co-authors @dschiff.bsky.social, @ketraschmitt.bsky.social (& a few more not on Bluesky) I just finished a peer-reviewed editorial about #automation and the future of work that uses the Anthropic case as a jumping-off point: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... (2/2)
Anthropic settlement checks are arriving in the mail to book authors who suffered #AI #plagiarism. This reminds us that beyond a one-off check, #AcademicSky authors, #nonfiction #writers and community members need sustainable livelihoods and the ability to hope for a positive 'Future of Work.' (1/2)
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Anthropic settlement checks are arriving in the mail to book authors who suffered #AI #plagiarism. This reminds us that beyond a one-off check, #AcademicSky authors, #nonfiction #writers and community members need sustainable livelihoods and the ability to hope for a positive 'Future of Work.' (1/2)
"Thinking of AI technologies by means of the relationship
between mining (as a practice) and energy (as a concept)
reminds us of how regrettable environmental legacies can
hide behind a clean and innocent-sounding key term set forth
as a social good." #AI #STS
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
between mining (as a practice) and energy (as a concept)
reminds us of how regrettable environmental legacies can
hide behind a clean and innocent-sounding key term set forth
as a social good." #AI #STS
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
Special Issue Editorial: Extraction by Design—AI, Value, and the Future of Work
ieeexplore.ieee.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"Thinking of AI technologies by means of the relationship
between mining (as a practice) and energy (as a concept)
reminds us of how regrettable environmental legacies can
hide behind a clean and innocent-sounding key term set forth
as a social good." #AI #STS
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
between mining (as a practice) and energy (as a concept)
reminds us of how regrettable environmental legacies can
hide behind a clean and innocent-sounding key term set forth
as a social good." #AI #STS
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
"How can it be possible to predict a package’s arrival down to the hour, yet know almost nothing about the conditions of its manufacture?"
Indeed.
logicmag.io/scale/see-no...
Indeed.
logicmag.io/scale/see-no...
See No Evil
An investigation into how software wires global supply chains, and what code conceals.
logicmag.io
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"How can it be possible to predict a package’s arrival down to the hour, yet know almost nothing about the conditions of its manufacture?"
Indeed.
logicmag.io/scale/see-no...
Indeed.
logicmag.io/scale/see-no...
Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan.
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P153: Opacity and Energy Knowledge: Getting to Just, Sustainable Energy Policy in a Polarizing World [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]
This panel explores changing cultural visibility and opacity of energy in anthropological research and impacts on energy justice and sustainability. It asks how scholars might contribute to “energy w...
nomadit.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan.
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
I have words, and I am going to use them. I have a voice, and I am going to use it. #AmWriting
People in my birth country are trying to curtail the existence of the form of expertise my colleagues and I represent, #Anthropology.
But we won't be erased. We will persist! Go #SocialScience go! ❤️🔥💪🏼❤️🔥
People in my birth country are trying to curtail the existence of the form of expertise my colleagues and I represent, #Anthropology.
But we won't be erased. We will persist! Go #SocialScience go! ❤️🔥💪🏼❤️🔥
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have words, and I am going to use them. I have a voice, and I am going to use it. #AmWriting
People in my birth country are trying to curtail the existence of the form of expertise my colleagues and I represent, #Anthropology.
But we won't be erased. We will persist! Go #SocialScience go! ❤️🔥💪🏼❤️🔥
People in my birth country are trying to curtail the existence of the form of expertise my colleagues and I represent, #Anthropology.
But we won't be erased. We will persist! Go #SocialScience go! ❤️🔥💪🏼❤️🔥
Thank you for publicizing this terrible news 😨😢
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thank you for publicizing this terrible news 😨😢
This is such terrible news!! 😨
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is such terrible news!! 😨
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
🚂 Suggested reading selections are the Introduction, Ch.2 "Technological Enterprise," and Ch.4 "Imperial Extraction." 🚂
⚡️Hope to see many scholars and practitioners from #AcademicSky, #STS, #history, and #anthropology next Friday the 5th for the Energy and Social Science Reading Group! ⚡️(6/6)
⚡️Hope to see many scholars and practitioners from #AcademicSky, #STS, #history, and #anthropology next Friday the 5th for the Energy and Social Science Reading Group! ⚡️(6/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚂 Suggested reading selections are the Introduction, Ch.2 "Technological Enterprise," and Ch.4 "Imperial Extraction." 🚂
⚡️Hope to see many scholars and practitioners from #AcademicSky, #STS, #history, and #anthropology next Friday the 5th for the Energy and Social Science Reading Group! ⚡️(6/6)
⚡️Hope to see many scholars and practitioners from #AcademicSky, #STS, #history, and #anthropology next Friday the 5th for the Energy and Social Science Reading Group! ⚡️(6/6)
This reading group is open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the latest publications focused on political ecology, political economy, and energy transitions. ✍️🏼📃
We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)
We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This reading group is open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the latest publications focused on political ecology, political economy, and energy transitions. ✍️🏼📃
We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)
We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)
As we know, societies are struggling with the material and imaginative legacies of fossil-fuel-based 'development.'
Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)
Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
As we know, societies are struggling with the material and imaginative legacies of fossil-fuel-based 'development.'
Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)
Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)
This multiply-awarded historical book addresses a coal mine and mining town in Northeastern China. Coal extraction was the focus of technological innovation and labor control.
Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)
Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This multiply-awarded historical book addresses a coal mine and mining town in Northeastern China. Coal extraction was the focus of technological innovation and labor control.
Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)
Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)
🗓 Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
🕰 Time: 1400h - 1530h CET (or 1300h - 1430h GMT, 8:00-9:30 AM EST)
▶️ Discussant: Mallory James
▶️ Moderator: Nikita Taniparti
🖥 Location: Online (2/6)
🕰 Time: 1400h - 1530h CET (or 1300h - 1430h GMT, 8:00-9:30 AM EST)
▶️ Discussant: Mallory James
▶️ Moderator: Nikita Taniparti
🖥 Location: Online (2/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🗓 Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
🕰 Time: 1400h - 1530h CET (or 1300h - 1430h GMT, 8:00-9:30 AM EST)
▶️ Discussant: Mallory James
▶️ Moderator: Nikita Taniparti
🖥 Location: Online (2/6)
🕰 Time: 1400h - 1530h CET (or 1300h - 1430h GMT, 8:00-9:30 AM EST)
▶️ Discussant: Mallory James
▶️ Moderator: Nikita Taniparti
🖥 Location: Online (2/6)
📖 Would you like to join us next week to discuss the book Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (2022)? 📖 #STS #energy #anthropology #history #energyhistory #technologyhistory
Our reading group is meeting for the last time in 2025! (1/6)
Our reading group is meeting for the last time in 2025! (1/6)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📖 Would you like to join us next week to discuss the book Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (2022)? 📖 #STS #energy #anthropology #history #energyhistory #technologyhistory
Our reading group is meeting for the last time in 2025! (1/6)
Our reading group is meeting for the last time in 2025! (1/6)
Reposted by Mallory James
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
Reposted by Mallory James
"...this infuses responsible professionalism with class-specific loyalties that could more readily serve to dampen, rather than amplify, critiques of engineering’s wider harms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"...this infuses responsible professionalism with class-specific loyalties that could more readily serve to dampen, rather than amplify, critiques of engineering’s wider harms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Universities provide the fundamental infrastructure for decision-making in industry and government. And they provide the tools for bolstering democracy - indeed, this was what the systems we have inherited from the post-war moment were largely for."
open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Universities provide the fundamental infrastructure for decision-making in industry and government. And they provide the tools for bolstering democracy - indeed, this was what the systems we have inherited from the post-war moment were largely for."
open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
LMU posted my publications onto the Department's page!! 🥰 www.en.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/publications...
Articles in English - Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis - LMU Munich
www.en.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
LMU posted my publications onto the Department's page!! 🥰 www.en.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/publications...
I found exactly the same thing recently! On one of our browsers, it won't even guess the language accurately or let us easily select it.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I found exactly the same thing recently! On one of our browsers, it won't even guess the language accurately or let us easily select it.
So interesting
this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.
Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
So interesting
Just read this interesting piece from 2018 defining the "analog slot" for social studies of technology, and I think this concept should remain part of the conversation for #sts and #anthropology as we increase our attention to the social studies of #AI. doi.org/10.14506/ca3...
What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?
| Cultural Anthropology
doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just read this interesting piece from 2018 defining the "analog slot" for social studies of technology, and I think this concept should remain part of the conversation for #sts and #anthropology as we increase our attention to the social studies of #AI. doi.org/10.14506/ca3...