Our forum "Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe" in Journal of Modern European History is out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One for historians of the environment and health in the Soviet Union and after👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Deep breathing: the asthma clinic buried 250 metres into an Armenian salt mine

Underground clinic’s fate hangs in the balance after government withdrew state funding

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woke up to close the window because I smelled smoke. I wrote my book about Russia, but Burning Swamps are literally here. www.independent.ie/county/wickl...

#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082...

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries), 26th–27th November 2026 at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (CG2 - Pagenhaus, Schlossplatz 1, Gotha). More: www.hiu.cas.cz/udalo...

“... the past is unpredictable. What Soviet resource history will have meant changes with the future presents from which it is written.” @ueberdruss.bsky.social in an electrifying review essay for @kritikajournal.bsky.social 🔥⚡👇

daniela russ@ueberdruss.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

Delightful: Scholar & bibliographer noting that peat doesn't exist as a tag in the Isis Current Bibliography using 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 as an example. Nice illustration of my point about peat as an "awkward matter" that the humanities have long struggled to account for blog.isiscb.org/newsletter/t...

"Keine geschichtliche Kategorie ohne ihre naturale Substanz, keine naturale ohne ihre geschichtliche Filterung." (Walter Benjamin) In einer Woche erscheint mein Buch zur "Fossilen Moderne" www.suhrkamp.de/buch/andreas...

Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)

Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen

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Die bpb hat mein Buch nachgedruckt. Auch angesichts der aktuellen Vergesellschaftungsdebatten freue ich mich darüber sehr und hoffe, dass es zum Verständnis beiträgt, warum Vergesellschaftung ein demokratisches Projekt ist.

Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...

How did peat electrify the USSR? In an earlier podcast the Eurasian Knot spoke to Katja Bruisch about how this coal-like soil was an energy source in Russia and the Soviet Union. www.patreon.com/cw/euraknot/...

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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From the current issue: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Tomorrow! 7-9 PM Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin More about this event: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workin...

Soon! Fall 26 in the UK Winter 26-27 in the US A book I wrote after the beginning of the Ukraine war, and that's unfortunately been vindicated by further events. Global security lies in decarbonization: in times of war, green energy means peace.

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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"Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade

This introduction to the special issue on timber colonialism argues that forests offer a uniquely productive lens for comparing how colonialism and ca…

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" ... every computation is a thermodynamic event" monthlyreview.org/articles/the...

The Thermodynamics of Capital: Artificial Intelligence, Energy Crisis, and Ecological Crisis - Monthly Review

Te Li unravels the myth of digital dematerialization so heavily promulgated by Silicon Valley and other AI boosters, which presents the technology as a phenomenon that has escaped the material... READ...

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On this week's Macrodose @meadwaj.bsky.social is joined by Jonas Marvin to talk about the economics affecting the food in a changing global climate open.spotify.com/episode/4C2r...

Food As A Site Of Struggle w/ Jonas Marvin (Norwich Transformed)

Macrodose · Episode

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Today is the US launch of my book, The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Hobo

A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants

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Filmmaker Jeanna Kolesova @jeannakolesova.bsky.social made a moving speculative documentary about peat & peatlands in the USSR, drawing, in part, on stories from my 🔥Burning Swamps🔥. The trailer & stills give you a sense of what I struggled to convey in writing 👉 jeannakolesova.com/in-zombie-fire

On advance access: "Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century" by Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp/VUB-University of Brussels) doi.org/10.1093/past...

🔥Burning Swamps🔥 book talk: next Tuesday, 16 June, at 4 PM (EET) / 3 PM (CET), in Helsinki in person & online. Please register here 👇 mwsosteuropa.hypotheses.org/17714 @maxweberstiftung.de

Please share and send your ideas before July 1 Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built Feminist Political Ecology Workshop: Call for Papers Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice Sept 21–22, 2026 organised with @antoniamajaca.bsky.social

Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built - Announcements - e-flux

Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built call for papers.

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Worth reading @hannahdaly.ie's full research here - it contains some really stunning numbers. The most important point is the 80% renewable mandate delayed by six years: meaning six years of massive gas use and emissions, breaching carbon budgets and spiking bills zenodo.org/records/2058...

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2mo ago

Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country

"Changing society's relation to nature more broadly remains a worthy project" (206). This by @ueberdruss.bsky.social is a brilliant Marxist analysis of energy history that deserves its place alongside Malm, Mitchell and other classics of the last couple decades.

It's hard enough to keep up with the destruction of universities locally. Especially when the dial is set to full-on demolition. But really this is a global, or at least pan-Western crisis. Reaction, inequality, elite failure, AI delusion – a perfect storm for which we seem totally ill-prepared. 1/4

When you come for “mineral substances as fertilizers” and stay for Soviet dinosaurs