Mallory James
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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.
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
Thank you for publicizing this terrible news 😨😢
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is such terrible news!! 😨
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚂 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 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.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM