Le sociologue Didier Éribon partage, dans une continuité revendiquée avec Pierre Bourdieu, ses réflexions sur l'uniformisation du champ médiatique autour d'un ennemi commun : la « gauche de gauche ». Tribune.
Proud PITCH lead in front of an engine with yellow sign and a banner Carbon Culture
Woman in front of exhibition sign: Carbon Culture. We are dependent!
Man looking up at a locomotive back with yellow fuel canister with sign in it.
Official opening of the PITCH project intervention “Carbon Culture. Museum of the Fossil Fuel Age” at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin tonight.
Special congrats go to curators Nora Thorade & Eike Heine who have done a fantastic job.
New article: Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums, by me & Nora Thorade.
We examine how #histtech #museums narrate our industrial heritage and make its energy reliance visible or invisible.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#envhist #petrocultures
1/2 Excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for the next Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop, hosted by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen August 20-21, 2026
This year, we also welcome work that looks beyond the North Sea. nors.ku.dk/english/cale...
Double page drawing of the Amoco Cadiz sinking.
I remember going to Ploudalmézeau a few years ago and reading for the first time this story on the memorial site. Unfortunately I don't have any picture of it.
Pages of the Bleu Pétrole graphic novel.
The drawings are beautiful, and the story focuses on the family of the Ploudalmézeau's mayor at the time. Together with mayors and inhabitants of the region, he thought against the company. The story is quite intimate, we can feel how moved the people are by this disaster.
Finally read this graphic novel "Bleu Pétrole" by Morizur and Montgermon. It tells the story of the sinking of the the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz in Britannian waters, which resulted in one of the biggest oil spill ever.
Part of St Étienne mining museum thread
Last picture - slag heaps in the 1950s.
"the Couriot's slag heaps dominate with their strange shape all the city"
Entrance of the Couriot site nowadays
Entrance of the Couriot site in 1948
It was very interesting for me, to collect data on museums and extractivist practices, but even more for my education as a local. I grew up in Lyon, 35 minutes drive from St Étienne, but there we learn everything about the silk industry and not about coal. Felt like I needed more regional history
Miner's equipment hanged from the ceiling, with the help of a basket
Focus on the chains attached to the benches
The miner's bath is an impressive room, with the equipment suspended from the ceiling. 1500 workers were using it
Slag heaps in the background of the industry buildings, with a very cuve for water extracted from the ground
Slag heaps create a particular landscape around the city, the coal industry has been very important to the region. It opened in the mid-19th century when the railways were connected to the city. The mine stopped in 1973 and transformed in a museum 20 years later
Picture of the Puits Couriot, with the elevator iron structure
Visit to the Puits Couriots, one of the former mining industrial site of St Étienne (South East of France, near Lyon).It is now a mining museum, where most of the visit consists in going in the 7 meters depth visitor mine, constructed only for visitors.We also walk through the old industry buildings
We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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✂️ Want to make a dadaist poem, a decaying museum, or another craft related to #EnergyHeritage? Join us this Wednesday for the 2nd installment of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social Reading Group on Creative & Critical Engagements w/ Energy Heritage. Register: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cee-r...
Drawing by @Pi Ja Ma
#salesconnes
🟣 « Ces sales connes, on va les foutre dehors » : Brigitte Macron ou la violence anti-féministe du macronisme
La vidéo de Brigitte Macron traitant de « sales connes » des militantes féministes a déclenché un mouvement de riposte en ligne : #Salesconnes.
🔴 « On dégage le RN » : à Lyon, des slogans contre l’extrême-droite s’invitent à la fête des Lumières
Des militants des Soulèvements de la Terre ont projeté des mots d'ordres contre l'extrême-droite, les violences policières, et la militarisation.
5 countries, lots of kilometers and I'm finally home
I now have 2 600 kms of train to come back to France. May my trains be more reliable than the Olso-Stavanger route.
🎬 Clap de fin
This is the end of two very interesting and busy weeks in Stavanger. As always, I hope to be back soon, to see the mountains, the Fjords, friends and of course, the new exhibits in the Oljemuseum
Introductive text to "Energy in an emergency" exhibition
Introductive text to "Olje og Gass" exhibition
I continue to explore oil narratives and energy narratives in the Teknisk museum in Oslo ✨⚡
This is the end of a very interesting PhD course on Energy Humanities organized wonderfully by @melinabuns.bsky.social
This energy catalogue with our personal reflections is a very nice object to take back home
Classroom full of people
People standing in front of blackboard with writing on it. Energy Humanities is in the center
Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum
Screenshot with the description of a Christmas tree (oil well)
Oil barrel with the Norsk Oljemuseum logo and a little Christmas tree on top
Christmas trees near a capsule in the oil museum
Petroculture meets Christmas
Two days of great discussions at the Ghosts of Empire workshop! With @eikeheine.bsky.social we are working on a paper on seabed fantasies and green colonialism.
Thanks @andersriel.bsky.social for organizing it!
🎂 10 ans ! Les scientifiques “fêtaient” les 10 ans des accords de Paris soit la #COP21
Alors que la #COP30 s’achevait dans un énième renoncement à prendre le tournant nécessaire, @scientifiquesenrebellion.fr a occupé le Trocadéro pour une action de résistance contre les désastres climatiques.
I have just participated to the first Energy Heritage reading group organized by @camillemarys.bsky.social, specially enjoyed the creative time on the "blob" described in Oil People. I'm looking forward for the next session!
