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 provin...
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Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and...
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Listen to Cultures of Energy, a Science & Medicine podcast by Dominic Boyer. Stream 259 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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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 t...
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...
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 f...
255 - Accelerant (feat. Ciruce Mohavedi-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 episo...
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 segme...
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 disc...
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 th...
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...
250 - Energy Democracy (feat. Nikki Luke)
Dominic and Cymene celebrate the 250 th episode of the podcast with tales of steamy avian encounter. And then (16:14) we welcome Nikki Luke...
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...
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...
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, H...
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 assa...
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 yea...
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 wi...
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...
242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes's amazing essay, " In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together " which everyo...
241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week's podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful Alice Lovejoy t...
240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)
We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture ( CCA ) and try to settle once and for all the...