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Imre Szeman
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Director of UTSC Institute for Environment & Sustainability in Toronto. Energy Transition, Energy Humanities, Social Change. Author most recently of *Futures of the Sun*
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Imre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · 29d
Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available!

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Introducing Green Dreams (Season Trailer) - Cited Podcast
Introducing our new season, Green Dreams. Starting September 9, 2025, with weekly episodes through October.
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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · Sep 8
New pub: @culturalstudies.bsky.social has just posted the interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm re: Fossil Capital, the development of his thought, and plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
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Imre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · Jul 26
Sun going down on my birthday spent in Bilbao. Thanks, Eva-Lynn, for bringing me here!
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · Jul 21
New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We talk with old friend Imre Szeman about his new book Futures of the Sun and why energy transition is too often the story of failed states. tinyurl.com/5n6bp8b6 @cymene.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman)
Dominic reports briefly on how your co-hosts returned home to their own personal Hurricane Harvey. Then (4:20) returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over ...
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Imre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · Jul 9
Spread the word: climatebacktracker.ca. An initiative of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability at the U of Toronto Scarborough!
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · Jul 8
Power Shift is out!
This keywords project brings together many long-admired energy humanities thinkers in 1 book of v. assignable essays. In my entry I don't talk much about screen time & instead muse about infrastructure, data sovereignty, and (eventually, a little bit,) bikes.
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A photo of a book chapter. It starts: Online: When we are online, what lines are we on? The meanings of the word online are less narrow that we usually imagine. Though its use skyrocketed with the advent of the internet, 'online' messages and practices can be found in early twentieth-century discussions of the telegraph's electric signals as well as the linear paths of the railway... The word speaks not to a technology but to an infrastructural condition. The chapter continues: What will lines mean in such a future? This is an undecided question, and so also a promissory one. In visions of the Green New Deal, in experimental networks, and in Indigenous land and water protection movements, we find the unfolding of spaces and times that lines have long compressed. They prompt us in part to ask: what if lines were built not only for transmission, but also for living and leisure, featuring linear parks that bridge urban and rural landscapes? How might community-controlled networks get more people on screens, but also outside, locating the lines of sight and solar panel placements needed to make different kinds of connectivity? Could we learn to stream video while the wind blows, and pursue less energy- and data-intensive pleasures when the turbines are still? And what if Indigenous data sovereignty and land sovereignty were thought and practiced together, such that consent was meaningfully negotiated for the transit of such lines, so that they in turn served to connect and benefit the nations they crossed? Lines, in this future, might invite new modes of dwelling within the spaces of interconnection...
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Imre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · May 26
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Socio-Political Impacts of AI-Driven Battery Materials Discovery / Deadline for applications -July 15, 2025 See: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/research/pos...
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Socio-Political Impacts of AI-Driven Battery Materials Discovery | Office of the Vice-Principal Research & Innovation
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Imre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · May 20
On Fogo Island doing a research retreat for the next two weeks with an amazing group of people. Cold, windy, icebergs. Wonderful!
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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · May 8
Listen up! Imre Szeman talks about his book, Futures of the Sun, and what's shaping our energy future @imreszeman.bsky.social

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Imre Szeman spurns the standard logic of the energy transition: that capitalism will save the Earth by Pretty Heady Stuff
Imre Szeman is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His recent book, Futu...
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Susanne Rust @susrust.bsky.social · Feb 18
🍿🎥 I'll be moderating a panel at 12PT with some fantastic scientists to discuss a new documentary film, Single Use Plastics -- coming to public television in April. Please join us (‪ @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social Sam Mason)! www.eventbrite.com/e/single-use...
Single-Use Planet Film--Live Discussion and Preview Clips
A live event to preview select clips & from the new film Single-Use Planet, coming to public television in April 2025, and live discussion.
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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Dec 11
Deliciousness! 'Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy', with 101 succinct chapters convened by @imreszeman.bsky.social and Jennifer Wenzel and a foreword by David Nye is now finally up on @wvupress.bsky.social and officially published in April 2025: wvupressonline.com/Power-Shift - yay!
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Power Shift Edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel
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