Just of the press in @envirohist.bsky.social my hot take on the scale problem in AI and how it relates to the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene, with a critique of the political economy of AI and a case for smaller models: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KUXEU... #envhist #greensky

Ja, vi tänkte verkligen i dollartecken när vi skrev en handbok i klimatjournalistik.

with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social

meson press@mesonpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻 Supported by The NOMIS Foundation

"What progressives usually mean when they talk about complexity is that the world is not set in stone. That what we have inherited can be changed." Read @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on complexity, Friedrich Hayek and democratic planning in our 3rd issue, AIRBORNE www.break-down.org/chaos-in-the...

Chaos in the Air

Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.

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New article out in @timeandsociety.bsky.social on the temporality of sustainable development, based on an attempt to reconcile the fundamentally incommensurable temporalities of Earth systems and capitalist economic growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #envhist #envhum #climate #greensky

Mortgaging our common future: The temporality of sustainable development - Adam Wickberg, 2026

This article argues that the concept of sustainable development, as institutionalized through the 1987 Brundtland report and the governance frameworks that foll...

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Happening tomorrow at KTH!

Adam Wickberg@adamwickberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Stockholm: we are so happy to bring @naomioreskes.bsky.social Oreskes to you! Don’t miss the chance today hear her speak about the hard truths of climate change we must confront

Naomi Oreskes@naomioreskes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In Stockholm? Please join us April 24 www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Finlands skogsmark tar knappt upp någon kol längre. Sveriges däremot har plötsligt ökat kraftigt. Kolupptaget i marken som Sverige registrerar i sin klimatrapportering till FN sticker ut i Europa. "Om siffran stämmer är den anmärkningsvärd". www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/e7...

Mysteriet som sticker ut: ”Det ser konstigt ut”

Sverige rapporterar tre gånger större kolupptag i jorden, jämfört med Finland. HAPARANDA/TORNEÅ. Vi står med den ena foten i Sverige och den andra i Finland. Un

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De generella AI-modeller som används dagligen har en oacceptabel miljökostnad. Vi måste börja använda AI mer ändamålsenligt, skriver forskaren Adam Wickberg. ⬇️ vist.ly/4v3sz

”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg

Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …

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Måste alla använda mer AI? Borde vi kanske prata om vad vi vill uppnå med en generell ökad användning av Silicon Valleys generativa AI? Skriver i @fof.se & framsteg om AI-accelerationens baksida. fof.se/artikel/ai-u...

”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg

Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …

fof.se

Greta och jag var på Östermalm och pratade med folk. Läs gärna på bloggen!

Greta och Alexandra: En avstickare till Karlaplan!

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The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social 13/13

How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...

Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press

Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

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if AI is so amazing, why can’t its supporters point to one real actual benefit to society it offers?

Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others meson.press/books/reckon...

Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press

Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

meson.press

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common

This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...

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When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy (Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)

Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo... Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now! For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%. Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates? Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.

Stockholm, join us on Thursday at the centre for Anthropocene history for a dissection and deep dive into the concept of crisis and its role in shapingh our response to climate and environment with @holgersen.bsky.social

Ståle Holgersen@holgersen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Book talk on Against the Crisis, Thu 16 oct, 13.00 - 15.00, at KTH in Stockholm. @versobooks.bsky.social @adamwickberg.bsky.social

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Centre for Anthropocene History@anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

Our workshop Infrastructures In, Of, and For the Anthropocene has wrapped! Thanks to everyone who participated! shorturl.at/yllJN We're now preparing for a second Autumn workshop, Futures Beyond Transition: Perspectives from the Energy Humanities shorturl.at/kO4EI (Flamenco image: James Bridle)

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check. Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

Our paper on the Argo program and how the ocean became understood through the lense of climate modelling is out now in Environment and Planning E! #envhist #histofsci 🌊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Co-environing the ocean and climate: The Argo program - Susanna Lidström, Adam Wickberg, 2025

The Argo program is an international scientific network that coordinates an array of autonomous floats that roam (primarily) the upper 2000 meters of the ice-fr...

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”Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided ’at all costs’. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU

Our paper on digital twins of the ocean is out now in this great special issue of New Media & Society, alongside contributions from Jussi Parikka, Rob Kitchin,Geoffrey Bowker among others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8 #envhist #bluehumanities #envhum

Digital twins of the ocean: Wet environing media and marine futures - Adam Wickberg, Susanna Lidström, 2025

The EU’s Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) is presented as a coherent, high-resolution, multi-dimensional, multi-variable and near real-time representation of the...

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On my way back from Venice where I had a great time at the Historical Epistemolgies of Planetary Modelling organised by Tom Turnbull & @adamwickberg.bsky.social, with an altogether great crew. Unfortunately, missed the wedding.