Cultures of Energy

262 - Petroforms (feat. Helen Kapstein)

Cymene recounts her visit to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and we wonder whether students can be convinced that academic writing will improve their social lives. Then (17

261 - Building Postcarbon Futures (feat. Billy Fleming)

The Queen and King of Jetlag recount tales of airplane toilets, surprise geckos and AI abominations on this week's episode. Then (16:32) Billy Fleming saves the podcast b

260 - Pipeline Cinema (feat. Mona Damluji)

Your cohosts' electric summer adventure has brought them to Thailand! Dominic wonders if he will be allowed to eat Thai spicy food and Cymene reports about feeding baby e

259 - Petrostates (feat. Ryan Cecil Jobson)

The China adventure continues for your two co-hosts. Cymene and Dominic report from Zhangzhou, a small city of five million in Fujian province, and talk about party hotel

258 - Smog (feat. Ann Carlson)

Cymene and Dominic report from the first week of their trip to China. And then (11:22) we welcome legal scholar Ann Carlson to the podcast to talk to us about battling sm

257 - The Alibi of Capital (feat. Timothy Mitchell)

It's World Cup season and so your co-hosts deliver their first ever sports corner. And then (9:38) drum roll please, we welcome the one and only Tim Mitchell back to the

256 - Land Art Generator (feat. Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian)

Cymene goes shopping with Beyoncé in this episode's dream sequence and if that weren't dreamy enough your co-hosts also break down the new film, Backrooms. Then (17:01) w

255 - Accelerant (feat. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani)

Dominic and Cymene eat crepes, share limericks and wonder whether dogs and rabbits might hold the secret to world peace on this week's episode. Then (13:09) we welcome Ci

254 - Shrinking Cities (feat. Fernando Ortiz-Moya)

Cymene and Dominic talk about shrinky dinks, tiny sweaters, miniaturized submarines and elemental ethnography during this week's intro segment. Then (12:12) we welcome Fe

253 - Disappearing Waste (feat. Dan Sosna)

Dominic and Cymene marvel at April snow and the ice cream stylings of Ben and Jerry. Then (8:28) we welcome Dan Sosna to the podcast to discuss his new book, Europe's Dis

252 - Southern Anthropocenes (feat. Casper Bruun Jensen)

Cymene and Dominic discuss what happened when ten art school kids were given a disney princess baking challenge on this week's episode of the podcast. Then (14:48) we wel

251 - Deep Listening (feat. Zina Saro-Wiwa)

Cymene and Dominic lament what is happening in Iran and explore what kinds of dogs they would be on this episode of the podcast. Then (15:47) we welcome to the podcast th

250 - Energy Democracy (feat. Nikki Luke)

Dominic and Cymene celebrate the 250th episode of the podcast with tales of steamy avian encounter. And then (16:14) we welcome Nikki Luke to the podcast, author of the b

249 - Weathering (feat. Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton)

Dominic and Cymene talk about their Cathostant (or is it Protelic?) families in this week's intro segment. And then (11:59) we are thrilled to be joined by Jennifer Mae H

248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille)

Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welco

247 - Feeding the Future (feat. Nicole Negowetti)

We kick things off this week with a short but heartfelt celebration of the tenth anniversary of the podcast. Several friends—Geoff Bowker, Heather Davis, Imre Szeman, Joh

246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri)

Happy 2026! It's been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow's reinvention as a fly assassin. Then (17:18) we welcome

245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;)

Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the year of AI, we let ChatGPT create

244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)

In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of

243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields)

Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the delightful Chelsea Schields to