Best Dominic Boyer Podcasts (2024)

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221 - Planetarity Now! (with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman) 1:22:35

19h ago1:22:35

1:22:35

Dominic and Cymene are beaming to you this week from a European Cup-addled Berlin. They share a few reflections on their time in Cape Town and then ruminate on why it is it doesn’t seem possible to hate anyone from California. Is it the sunshine? As if to underscore this point about the essential good of Californians, we welcome to the podcast (15:…

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220 - Design Earth (with Rania Ghosn) 1:07:35

2M ago1:07:35

1:07:35

Cymene and Dominic recap last week’s Petrocultures Los Angeles conference and discuss the new climate lawsuit filed in France seeking to press criminal charges against the CEO and directors of the French oil major TotalEnergies. Then (15:27) we welcome the brilliant and megatalented Rania Ghosn to the podcast. We start with the work of Design Earth…

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219 - Climate Storytelling (with CNN's Bill Weir) 1:05:34

2M ago1:05:34

1:05:34

Dominic and Cymene react to the police violence sweeping across US university campuses. Then (15:11) we are thrilled to welcome CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent, Bill Weir, to the podcast. We begin with the big news of the day—the landmark legal ruling by the European court of human rights that Switzerland had violated the human rights of more tha…

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218 - Solar Futures (with Siddharth Sareen) 1:09:02

4M ago1:09:02

1:09:02

Cymene tries to convince Dominic to join the Freemasons on this episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. Plus, a shallow dive into Buzkashi, the national sport of Tajikistan, the country that helped convince the UN to designate 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Then (13:22) we are thrilled to welcome Siddharth Sareen from U S…

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217 - A Song of Concrete and Ice (with Cristián Simonetti) 1:02:55

4M ago1:02:55

1:02:55

Cymene accounts for her mysterious conversion from a coffee-drinker to a tea-drinker but [spoiler alert] it turns out she’s not a doppelganger after all. Then after some EV road trip talk (16:06) we are delighted to have Cristián Simonetti join us from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. We start with Cris’s research on concrete, one of t…

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216 - Carbon Colonialism (with Laurie Parsons) 1:10:49

5M ago1:10:49

1:10:49

Cymene arrives at the Covid party on this week’s episode and she’s got the sultry radio voice to prove it. We share a few words about a magnificent pug named Doug and Cymene discovers Russell Brand’s rightward "grift drift" to her horror. Then (18:58) we welcome Laurie Parsons to the podcast to talk about his excellent new book, Carbon Colonialism …

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215 - No More Fossils (with Cara Daggett) 1:15:44

6M ago1:15:44

1:15:44

The Cultures of Energy podcast is back with the first of several new episodes for 2024. First, Cymene and Dominic share what they've learned from their very late arrival to watching the show Survivor and why Shadow, their 75% chihuahua, has never worked a day in her life and proudly so. Then (11:40) the main part of this week's episode is a convers…

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214 - Oil Beach (with Christina Dunbar-Hester) 1:08:00

1y ago1:08:00

1:08:00

Dominic and Cymene start off with a review of the new Apple TV Cli-Fi series Extrapolations especially its killer walruses and then recap a chat with German climate activist Luisa Neubauer and former US National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy about how civilizational change is coming, either by design or by disaster. Then [23:51] we are thrilled to …

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213 - The City Electric (with Michael Degani) 1:00:27

1+ y ago1:00:27

1:00:27

Cymene and Dominic natter a bit about holiday misadventures and then (13:49) happily welcome Mike Degani (Cambridge U) to the podcast to talk about his new book, The City Electric (Duke UP 2022). We begin with how Mike became interested in electricity as an ethnographic object through experiencing power failures in Dar es Salaam. Then we talk about…

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212 – Carbon Technocracy (with Victor Seow) 1:08:12

1+ y ago1:08:12

1:08:12

Cymene and Dominic relate tales from their harrowing weekend of having to deal with the absence of Henry Rollins in Black Flag and the presence of an active shooter down the block. Then (15:35) we welcome Harvard’s own Victor Seow to the podcast to discuss his remarkable book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (U Chicago Press,…

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211 - Half Earth Socialism (feat. Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese) 1:12:04

2y ago1:12:04

1:12:04

Cymene and Dominic talk about hauling ice, champagne socialism and the mystery of Viennetta cakes on this week’s intro. Then (16:07) we are joined by Troy Vettese, an environmental historian, and Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, to talk about their bold and imaginative new book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extin…

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210 - Rights of Nature (feat. Daphina Misiedjan) 1:04:21

2y ago1:04:21

1:04:21

Dominic and Cymene begin this week’s episode with a medley of Hawaiian experiences, everything from 25-foot waves to energy utopias to whether watching Sharknado can actually help someone overcome fear of sharks. Then, we welcome to the podcast the brilliant Dr. Daphina Misiedjan from Erasmus University Rotterdam (https://www.eur.nl/en/people/daphi…

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209 - Degrowth (feat. Timothée Parrique) 1:14:31

2y ago1:14:31

1:14:31

Dominic and Cymene share first impressions of Honolulu and query why there are chickens everywhere. Then (16:50) we are thrilled to welcome economist Timothée Parrique (https://timotheeparrique.com @timparrique) to the podcast to bring us up to speed with the latest news from ecological economics and its signature degrowth paradigm. We start with t…

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208 - Sarah Besky 1:02:58

2y ago1:02:58

1:02:58

Cymene and Dominic talk about flying chihuahuas and playground chamomile in this week’s intro. Then (12:26), we welcome Cornell’s Sarah Besky (http://www.sarahbesky.com/index.html) to the podcast to talk about her latest book Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (U California Press, 2020). We start with how and why Sarah first became inter…

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207 - Dilip da Cunha 1:11:37

2+ y ago1:11:37

1:11:37

Cymene and Dominic begin with a speculative analysis of malfunctional laptops. Then (11:32) we welcome the brilliant landscape architect Dilip da Cunha to the podcast to talk about his longstanding collaborative work with Anuradha Mathur on wetness, rivers, monsoons, estuaries and so much more (https://www.mathurdacunha.com). Dilip explains how it …

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206 - Gail Simmons 57:21

2+ y ago57:21

57:21

Dominic and Cymene share a close encounter with a phantom raccoon and offer two ideas for sure-to-succeed new TV shows. Then (12:17) we are thrilled to welcome Gail Simmons—star judge of Bravo’s Emmy and James Beard-award winning show Top Chef as well as a food writer and culinary expert—to the show. We get started with how Gail‘s background in ant…

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205 - Intersectional Ecologies 58:35

2+ y ago58:35

58:35

Cymene and Dominic talk war, sunglasses and unexpected colors and then (10:27) we pivot to the main event, a discussion of intersectional ecologies featuring three brilliant minds: Bridget Guarasci (https://www.fandm.edu/bridget-guarasci), Amelia Moore (https://web.uri.edu/maf/meet/amelia-moore-2/) and Sarah Vaughn (https://anthropology.berkeley.ed…

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204 - Elizabeth Povinelli Returns 1:18:34

2+ y ago1:18:34

1:18:34

A potpourri of hot topix leads off this week’s episode: ASMR, Super Twosday, Ukraine, Bitcoin, and the correct pronunciation of Lindsey Lohan’s name. Then (17:36) we are so very thrilled to welcome Beth Povinelli back to the pod to discuss her latest book, The Inheritance (Duke UP 2021), a graphic memoir that plumbs the messy relationships among na…

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203 - David Farrier 1:02:52

2+ y ago1:02:52

1:02:52

Cymene and Dominic discuss extraterrestrial lavatology, evil corporate accounting software, skyfarms and chinchillas on this week’s intro. Then (14:15) we are so delighted to welcome David Farrier (U Edinburgh) to the podcast to discuss his justly acclaimed latest book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (FSG, 2020). David talks about how the …

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202 - Shannon Mattern 1:02:20

2+ y ago1:02:20

1:02:20

Cymene and Dominic talk about the vine that’s taking over their house and then (12:30) we welcome the New School’s magnificent Shannon Mattern to the podcast We discuss her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton UP, 2021) which explores the limits of computational models for understanding knowledge in urban contexts…

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201 - Arturo Escobar 1:04:33

2+ y ago1:04:33

1:04:33

Aaaaand we’re back! Cymene and Dominic start off with their usual nonsense, which culminates in a lively discussion of the missile silo now listed on the real estate site Zillow (we were wrong on some of the specs btw, it’s in Abilene, Kansas and only $380,000, survivalist bargain hunters can find all the deets here: https://www.zillow.com/homedeta…

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200 - Laura Nader 57:52

4+ y ago57:52

57:52

Wow, we made it to 200 episodes and 250k downloads this week. Thank you everyone for listening for the past nearly four years. It also seems like a good milestone for a change of pace. Your tireless cohosts need to take an extended break from weekly podcasting in order to commit ourselves more fully to a couple of other creative opportunities that …

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199 - Bathsheba Demuth 1:01:42

4+ y ago1:01:42

1:01:42

Your co-hosts talk clonal trees and dispense important advice about relationships, breakups, and having “the conversation” with your children on this week’s podcast. Then (17:16) we talk to Brown University’s Bathsheba Demuth (http://www.brdemuth.com) about her new book Floating Coast (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635164) a beautifully conceiv…

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198 - The Mississippi (an Anthropocene River) 56:06

5y ago56:06

56:06

Dominic and Cymene discuss Swiss silence and whether soup can be a meal on this week’s podcast. Then (13:53) we sit down with Christoph Rosol and Tom Turnbull, two of the organizers of the baroque and fascinating project of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (https://www.hkw.de/de/index.php) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (http…

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197 - Climate Book Club Special! 45:28

5y ago45:28

45:28

In this week's special guest episode, Leah Stokes (UC Santa Barbara) and Bina Venkataraman take over the Cultures of Energy podcast to discuss Bina's new book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735219472?aff=penguinrandom). This interview is part of the Twitter discussion, #climatebookcl…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Dominic Boyer Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Cultures of Energy

Dominic Boyer

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221 - Planetarity Now! (with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman) 1:22:35

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220 - Design Earth (with Rania Ghosn) 1:07:35

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219 - Climate Storytelling (with CNN's Bill Weir) 1:05:34

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218 - Solar Futures (with Siddharth Sareen) 1:09:02

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217 - A Song of Concrete and Ice (with Cristián Simonetti) 1:02:55

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216 - Carbon Colonialism (with Laurie Parsons) 1:10:49

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215 - No More Fossils (with Cara Daggett) 1:15:44

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214 - Oil Beach (with Christina Dunbar-Hester) 1:08:00

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213 - The City Electric (with Michael Degani) 1:00:27

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212 – Carbon Technocracy (with Victor Seow) 1:08:12

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211 - Half Earth Socialism (feat. Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese) 1:12:04

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210 - Rights of Nature (feat. Daphina Misiedjan) 1:04:21

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209 - Degrowth (feat. Timothée Parrique) 1:14:31

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208 - Sarah Besky 1:02:58

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207 - Dilip da Cunha 1:11:37

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206 - Gail Simmons 57:21

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205 - Intersectional Ecologies 58:35

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204 - Elizabeth Povinelli Returns 1:18:34

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203 - David Farrier 1:02:52

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202 - Shannon Mattern 1:02:20

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201 - Arturo Escobar 1:04:33

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200 - Laura Nader 57:52

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199 - Bathsheba Demuth 1:01:42

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198 - The Mississippi (an Anthropocene River) 56:06

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197 - Climate Book Club Special! 45:28

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