1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.
WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)
that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵
Adam Hanieh FT Weekend Essay!
“The Gulf’s ammonia exports are especially important for markets outside N. America & western Europe. In 2024, for instance, Saudi Arabia, Oman & Qatar together supplied more than three-quarters of India’s ammonia imports and 30 % of Morocco’s.”
A first look:
My take on the history of criminal justice and the procuracy under (and after) Stalin
The Disciplined Dictatorship: The Soviet Procuracy from Stalin to Khrushchev, 1938—1956
forthcoming with Oxford University Press
Expected September 2026.
More soon.
On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia"
by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
🤩 Thanks for coming, Marianna! Always a pleasure to catch up!
🚨#History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Capitalism.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Das Klima der Philosophie. Die ökologische Krise als Herausforderung für die Philosophie- und Ideengeschichte
Herausgegeben von Melanie Sehgal und Martin Mulsow
Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2026
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/das-kli...
Panel abstract. "The idea that we need to rethink Soviet economic history has been around for quite a while. In the last decade or so, we have learned about the role of Fordism in the Soviet Union, Soviet contributions to the genesis of (neo-)liberalism, and about money, consumption and trade in the late Soviet period. Unwritten or hidden so far are histories of labor/work, resources and economic geography. This panel brings together case studies, perspectives and research approaches that underscore the immense range of experiences and the spatial diversity of production, consumption and social reproduction under Soviet power."
Just a few days to go until our #BASEES2026 panel on the "Hidden Pillars of the Soviet Economy," featuring Tamar Qeburia on Georgian manganese, @alexoberlaender.bsky.social on the shabashniki & yours truly on good old peat. Comments by @jeremymorris.bsky.social Join us on Friday, 10 April at 4:45
A full rainbow over a row of white houses. Green sports field in the foreground
Leprechaun alarm ☘️
We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum
thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!
From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology Vicky Kluzik ABSTRACT How much is too much? The concept ‘carrying capacity’, believed to be first employed in the context of shipping in the nineteenth century, became a key element of Neo-Malthusianism of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed to curb surplus populations against the backdrop of looming ecological collapse. Adopting an approach that merges a Foucauldian governmentality perspective with Science and Technology Studies (STS) sensitivities, the article investigates the lively genealogy of how ecologists and economists approached the ‘population problem’ through ‘capacity thinking’ to envisage, model, and predict planetary futures. By examining several discursive constellations from the 1920s to the 2000s, the paper illuminates the ascendancy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a ‘fixed ideal’ and a ‘political technology’ that traverses scientific disciplines and societal discourses. This exploration unfolds the presumably simultaneous economization of the environment vis-à-vis the environmentalization of economics, cautioning against claims of a hybridization of these interlinked yet distinct processes. This retro- and prospective analysis unfolds both the ascendancy and the persistence of ‘carrying thinking’ by illuminating how contemporary rationalities of ‘capacity thinking’ are echoed in conceptions of planetary boundaries, circular economy, as well as right-wing and techno-libertarian visions of economic and ecological futures.
Recently published in @jcultecon.bsky.social: @vkluzik.bsky.social on the genealogy of the concept of "carrying capacity" and how it was seized and shaped by both ecologists and economists. Must read for anyone interested in the links between population and the environment.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...
I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...
Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms)
Happy to share a new paper with @awitschas.bsky.social & @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social.
We introduce AI resignation as a form of subjectivity that hollows out young people’s self-efficacy and, as an affective formation, sustains power in digital capitalism.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Cédric Durand (@cedricdurand.bsky.social) about ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Screenshot of the ReCentGlobe Druckfrisch website featuring a link to the book talk video and an image from the event
I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook
#envhist
Screenshot of the ReCentGlobe Druckfrisch website featuring a link to the book talk video and an image from the event
I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook
#envhist
New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.
Mentions several times that we need to protect digital infrastructure from extreme weather but nowhere that the expansion of resource-hungry digital infrastructure is part of the problem ...
🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia
🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books
📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
eseh.org/envhistoday-...
#EnvHist #Envhum
and good luck with your essay!
what a coincidence. the image is right at the beginning!
ha, that's the second time I am seeing this image today. Just picked up Kate Brown's book!
Kafka and Dr Karma are my absolute favorites among the various versions of my first name in student emails. Time to retire.
I have a whole week on energy and extraction planned for H-Environment Reviews! #envhist #envhum #extraction #mining 🔋🪫🛢️🪨
Cover of Kate Brown's book Tiniy Gardens Everywhere. Graphic cover image featuring a row of apartment block in the front, garden plants growing over it and a watering can
small green broad bean plants in a raised bed
The broad beans in our allotment are raising their heads ... time to pre-order Kate Brown's new book "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City." Out next week: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
#newbookalert #envhist
We need to electrify society to reduce emissions, but how we undertake that transition really matters.
This week @triofrancos.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss all the mining needed to go “green” and how that’s playing out across the world.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/315_...
