Kai Bosworth
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Book: Pipeline Populism (2022) ⤵. & subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer teaching intl studies, VCU. @out_woods
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it's that time again - a new book sale code! thanks to the AAG, my book Pipeline Populism (and many other great books!) are available at a 40% discount with the code MNAAG24 - until June 1!
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seeing these border infrastructure come down just so fucking beautiful. this could become the dominant image of our future, if we make it so
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land acknowledgement on private rental property. getting out of control.
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my book Pipeline Populism is real and out now! I'm so excited for people to read it!
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can't stop thinking about this banner - and going with Cesaire instead of Benjamin - truly an all timer
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Nuclear energy is the deus ex machina for everyone who thinks we should do *something* about climate change, but can’t bring themselves to imagine a social world any different from the one that produces cheap pool noodles
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Tronti, devastatingly: "[The working class] has to reach the point of having as its enemy the whole of capital, ***including itself as a part of capital***. Labour should see labour-power *as a commodity* as its enemy."
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this is quite the statement from Gustavo Petro - who sees in the global north's excessive wealth, productive of climate change and reinforcing the global rise of the right, a new barbarism. Gaza an experiment in the production of disposable populations.
La barbarie del consumo basado en la muerte de los demás nos lleva a un ascenso del fascismo sin precedente, y por tanto, a la muerte de la democracia y la libertad. Es la barbarie, o el 1933 global, como la llamo. 1933 fue año donde ascendió Hitler al poder.
Lo que vemos en…
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the full special issue of "Political Ecologies of Race: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada" now up on
@antipodeonline
!
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any good articles tracing the early 2000s backlash against dependency / world-systems analysis? how central was the Mignolo critique? was it just general academic exhaustion w marxist / third worldist approaches?
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Deleuze (1995): "Today I can say that I feel completely marxist...I don't understand it when people try to say that Marx was wrong. And even less when they claim that Marx is dead."
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now up at
@antipodeonline
- "Beyond the Chokepoint: Blockades as Social Struggles" - from
@CharmaineSChua
and me! An editorial introduction to the long-awaited special issue "On the Blockade: Geographies of Circulation and Struggle"
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that states across the west feel compelled to police and outright censor Palestinian sympathetic events--from protests to book readings--demonstrates the degree to which the consensus on the state of Israel has slipped away from them in recent years
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Some exciting news: Starting this fall, i'll be assistant professor of environmental justice & international studies in the School of World Studies at VCU. Please hit me with your Virginia history/political ecology!
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annihilation of space by time
The new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS 18) comes out this September. And I just heard:
PLACE OF PUBLICATION WILL NO LONGER BE REQUIRED IN CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRIES! 🎉🥳🙌
This was my number 1 wish for the new edition. I am thrilled!
#AcademicWriting
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smashed the submit button on my book manuscript! a lotta work left but look forward to Pipeline Populism hitting the shelves in 9-12 months.
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at AAG Saturday, my book "Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century" was named as the Outstanding Book award from the Cultural and Political Ecology (
@CAPE_AAG
) Specialty Group!!
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sometimes i get intimidated by how many major gaps exist in my knowledge. like really basic history and stuff. but then i remember that knowledge is collective...and one of the best things about comrades is they are generous rather than competitive.
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I have a new article out in
@antipodeonline
, co-authored with the ever-brilliant
@CharmaineSChua
-- "The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler-State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade"
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it's amazing how utterly disconnected conversations among the "climate left" are from place-based environmental justice struggles
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oh no...
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i find myself baffled by the rise of constructivist economic ethnographies which either disavow or explicitly position themselves against critical (particularly marxist) accounts of capitalism (think Anna Tsing, Karen Ho, etc). in part bc i find their ethographies so rich!!
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I legitimately cannot understand how strategically stupid all of the institutional actors are acting rn. the unis, the cities, the dems - brainless!! and that's before we get to the cops!!!
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tw i read some of the manifesto and it is baldly saturated with a discourse about race & nature
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Bernie connecting climate change to racism in his answer, and the moderator says “stay on topic” to crowd cheers?? ....pretty much encapsulates the “climate change is just a topic” approach
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just successfully defended my dissertation. I'm a doctor!
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hearing now that it is in fact Andreas Malm who has sabotaged Nordstream pipeline
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"When you say that you are urgently looking for climate solutions, yet continue to build a world economy based on extraction and pollution, we know you are lying"
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"declare a climate emergency" is the most confounding demand to occur in recent climate politics. I really have no idea how or why or what kind of politics it is meant to usher in.
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I put up a pre-pub of my review essay on 'new geographies of the subsurface.' I survey how geographers (and others) are examining geopolitics, political ecology/geology and natural resource politics, cultures, and epistemologies when they go underground.
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where's the leigh phillips doordash column? under socialism, everyone deserves to have 25k of fast food delivered to them, if they want.
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a weird thing about getting older is accepting that you can just ignore commentary on intellectual trends you dealt with ages ago. like accelerationism? in 2024? just gonna skip that chapter, figured that out in 2013 or whatever.
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little known fact that most PMC scholars miss: Marx started Capital Vol 1 on the descent into the hidden abode of electoral popularity - *not* commodities!
AMLO and Lula – insanely popular left-of-center leaders in our hemisphere – would be a better topic of study & discussion for socialists than bananas or sunscreen
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I've uploaded a preprint of my article "What is 'affective infrastructure'?" which will be out eventually in Dialogues in Human Geography! a theoretical intervention, tough to pull off, but it also really helped me clarify a wider 'problematic'
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"Unfence the Future: Taking Down Fortress Conservation and its Enduring Legacy" is a virtual symposium that will take place next week. it's a deep conversation among those at the cutting edges of water protection and land defense.
info and registration:
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Marx says of Bonaparte: "Precisely because he was nothing, he was able to signify anything--except what he in fact was." phew.
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how did the tech world convinced everyone wires are bad?? there are so many problems with bluetooth dropping plus it requires batteries in everything again
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new from me out now in cultural geographies on "The bad environmentalism of ‘nature is healing’ memes"! this was really fun to research (with students) and to write, and i hope it's a breezy read as well
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I accidentally left off the main thesis because i fell off my chair once i actually read the article, but it is equally (or more) unhinged:
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everything for everybody tagged on the target
One person who had a lot to say was this guy, Divine Allah. I just asked him what he was doing
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Mike Davis explains (responding to Harry Boyte) some of the problems with the latter's assumption that a new grassroots populism is likely to reinvigorate the left (1978)
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it's a cruel irony that (as others have argued) Israel is in some ways "the last" bismarkian ethno-settler colony and thus appears as a vestige of the 19th c at the same time as its border tech refugee extermination project appears to be the vanguard of 21st c climate chaos
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I fully realize this is the kind of thing that people see on the AAG schedule and subsequently lambast online, but I just finished a first draft of "The Bad Environmentalism of 'Nature is Healing' Memes." Here's the abstract and some of our favorites, as a treat.
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haven't troved the lit yet, but i made a list of some of the more compelling movies with enviro themes. happy to take further recommendations, esp intl!
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everyone loves a ruthless critique of everything existing until it's of you, specifically
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university-ecology politics in the US have almost always been shaped by a counterrevolutionary tendency, attempting to separate ecology from liberation and diffuse what would otherwise point towards a radical politics. earth day teach ins, science funding, sustainability plans.
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I've been reading some books about gardening, and it's fascinating to see how major environmental studies works have entered into mainstream. folks like Kimmerer and Cronon are cited. gardening is seen as a social justice and Indigenous rights struggle.
class is totally absent
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"let my building burn"
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the full article forum on "What is affective infrastructure?" in Dialogues in Human Geography is now published! Commentaries on my article from Keith Woodward, Rodrigo Nunes, Helen F. Wilson, Ara Wilson, and Kavita Ramakrishnan and Kathleen O’Reilly
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wondering if i should start putting "this research was funded by the second and third jobs i had while i was in grad school" in the funding acknowledgments
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the virgin "but the critique of the Gotha program..." versus the Chad "these 2 paragraphs on page 959 of capital volume 3 are the real crux of marx's understanding of nature. but you see, engels presented out of order, and if we consult marx's notebooks on soil science, (1/53)"
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love it when 5pm friday hits and the surplus value stops being extracted. it's so nice to go from reading hegel "for work" to reading hegel "for fun"
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credit to Malm that a short story or parable version of Fossil Capital will appear in every single eco-adjacent book from now on. it's somehow already almost as canonical as the story of enclosure!
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new saito pdf just dropped, just skimming but this looks great
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there's this sense that climate despair or apocalypticism are causes of powerlessness, and thus if we have hope or optimism that can be staved off. this gets emotions backwards to me. feeling bad is register of powerlessness; if you want to change emotions, you gotta build power.
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here's the published version of my article on subsurface geographies! i survey how geographers (and others) are examining geopolitics, political ecology/geology and natural resource politics, and the cultures, myths, and epistemologies of the underground.
🕳️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🕳️
'Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface' by Kai Bosworth
@kaibosworth
@VCU
@WorldStudiesVCU
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University of Minnesota Press has a new "Petrocultures" collection of books concerning oil and fossil fuels. My book "Pipeline Populism" is among those featured in this collection, all of which are 40% off when you order using promo code MN90990 before May 1, 2024!
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the twitter policy banning users from wishing death upon others is in fact deeply symbolic of the prohibition on death talk in the west. in The Gift of Death, Derrida makes remarkable comments about the necessarily unexpected nature of death, which in this thread i wil- (1/48)
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mega fan of this new one from Lara Langer Cohen
@LaraLangerCohen
. inventive arguments about the changing figural and metaphorical meaning of the subterranean in 19th c lit and media. it changed how I think about this topic, which is saying something!
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I wrote a short-and-sweet balance sheet assessment on the merits and shortcomings of climate populism as a left strategy
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new from me in Political Geography - "Populism and the rise of the far right: Two *different* problems for political ecology"
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some of this will change but i think this is my media list for infrastructure class:
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Brazil (1985)
Power Trip (2002)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
When the Levees Broke (2006)
The Prison in 12 Landscapes (2016)
"Invasion" (2019)
"Border Nation" (2020)
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AAG 2023 with
@LeviVanSant
@LaurenGifford
Kelly Kay
@jaredmargulies
@geographiti
@chumei808
@DeondreSmiles
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this string of words lol
We're absolutely thrilled to share that we'll be publishing a new novel from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE, this July! ✨
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the roots of the announced utility shut off to Gaza are in Israel's 'asphyxiatory' approach to electricity and other utility/infrastructure supplies, stretching back to Israel's bombing of the Gaza power plant in 2006. described by Omar Jabary Salamanca:
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instead of saying you support student free speech, say that you support their demands 👍
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Where you at, enviro orgs who want to support workers exploited by fossil fuel corporations, working class people in sacrifice zones, and a just transition more broadly? Time to step up and make the connections we need.
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I’m very excited to announce that starting this fall, I’ll be a visiting assistant professor at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society! See you soon, Providence.
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the idea that ecology is "beyond politics" is deeply damaging, even without bad puns
🐝Bee-yond Politics 🐝
Our bees splat onto the
@Labour
bus
The recent weakening of their climate promises is an important example of why party politics is not fit to address the
#PlanetaryCrisis
We must go
#beyondpolitics
and
#upgradedemocracy
with citizens assemblies
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Accounting, efficiency, productivity, surveillance, measurement, accountability, incentives, pace. American capitalism has its roots in slavery.
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i'm teaching Julie Sze's little book "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" and gotta say that I highly recommend it for intro-ish courses! great to have a readable EJ introduction that connects to convos around racial capitalism
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"That the State is, as Poulantzas says, the 'material condensation of a given relationship of forces,' could literally have been written by Spinoza" - Matheron
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lol I used to work here and closing bc the staff is unionizing fits the pattern.
Common Roots is closing.
Danny Schwartzman: "After 15 amazing years, Common Roots has served our last meal — I’m sorry to say I’ve decided to close down the business."
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I've posted about this before but here's my most recent contribution to the discourse
Hard to overstate this book's impact, both in generating excellent scholarship and in producing some very, very unfortunate misconceptions re: how the oil industry functions.
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is it too late to organize a mike davis tribute panel for AAG? who would you want to be involved?
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thanks to
@nickpclare
and
@NeilGray00
for alerting me to this article - absolutely fascinating to find what i sort of suspected - that the oil workers had used their work conditions to re-evaluate the role of capitalist technology -- what would become a key operaismo thesis
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totally innocent comparison from 538 here. just talkin bout numbers!
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Louise Erdrich on Line 3 resistance: "Young people here are chaining themselves beneath pipeline trucks, clamping themselves to bulldozers, facing down semi trucks. It is unbearable. They know exactly what’s at stake."
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