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Mike Tondre ❌👑

@mltondre.bsky.social
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English Prof. Oil (Bloomsbury, Object Lessons series), Oil! (Penguin), The Physics of Possibility (U of Virginia) www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-978150138…

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Kent Linthicum @kentlinthicum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm sincerely grateful to @mltondre.bsky.social, @devingarofalo.bsky.social, @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social, and the peer reviewers for their feedback. Their care and input during drafting and revisions helped me immensely.
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New! A thrilling special issue on "Post-Carbon Victorian Studies" edited by Michael Tondre. A fantastic forum on "Victorian Breeds and Breeding" edited by Kristen Guest and Ronja Frank. Reviews of new books on Conrad, A Brontë, Carroll, and others! Read us on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Great new work on energy from Chandrica Barua, Sarah Comyn, Corbin Hiday, Kent Linthicum, and Susan Zieger out in the latest Victorian Review, with a fantastic afterward by Elizabeth Miller. You can check out my guest editor's intro below~
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Post-Carbon Victorian Studies
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Chandrica Barua @chandricab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
so grateful that my paper arguing for the significance of my home-state in victorian studies finds a place in the special issue "Post-Carbon Victorian Studies" edited by the wonderful Michael Tondre! @mltondre.bsky.social
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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Summer in Florida: tumultuous rain, perfectly tiny dogs, and good books. @mltondre.bsky.social excited to read your introduction with my students in the fall :)
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Hooray!!!! ☀️
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New Sanctuary Coalition @newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We are in the courts each week. Visit www.newsanctuarynsc.org to get involved.
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New Sanctuary Coalition @newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
On Tuesday, our members witnessed ICE and FBI agents kidnapping a man in front of his family after his immigration hearing at 290 Broadway. His case had NOT been dismissed by the immigration judge, and he was instructed that he would have time to gather evidence to support his case.
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A very short review of Allen MacDuffie's brilliant book: academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
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Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. By Allen MacDuffie
Nothing enrages environmentally conscious intellectuals quite like climate denial. But resentment for hardcore doubters and dupes, Allen MacDuffie writes,
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A short blog post from my book *Oil*: thanks to all the folks at Bloomsbury! @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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Tom Hardy @tomxr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“Monster soup”…perhaps a better title for the dirty water campaign.
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...
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Anson Rabinbach, Leading Historian of Nazi Culture, Dies at 79
He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
404 has the details. But in a number of interviews w those who've interacted with the Musk gizmocrats, AI and integrating government systems with AI comes up repeatedly. This isn't surprising in itself. AI is big in all tech now. But fits with what is described here.
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...
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Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory
If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
if there were reporting "What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."
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AFT @aft.org · 28/01/2025
Join us Thursday, Jan. 30, for an urgent town hall for our members on immigration and the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in schools and hospitals. We'll be discussing Trump's mass deportation agenda & its harmful consequences. Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...
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Tom Hardy @tomxr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
JP Morgan’s report of 2020 warns of the desperate urgency of climate action:"[delay] opens us up to potentially catastrophic outcomes, which might be impossible to reverse.” It beggars belief that they now backpedal on net zero promises. They have sold their children’s future for a mess of potage.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff
Think of an LLM as a research assistant. An extremely knowledgeable, well-read, and over-caffeinated research assistant. They can accomplish quite remarkable things but they will also make mistakes - like mixing up “Selia” and “Delia”. Unlike most research assistants, LLMs will occasionally hallucinate (ie. make up) things that sound quite convincing. Don’t take their output at face value and always check their work.
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
@climateconnections.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿 #climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...
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12 books to prepare you for Trump 2.0 » Yale Climate Connections
These books, aimed at the general reader, can help you contextualize and respond to our current crises.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
*Cringe* I have started a blog. Thanks @ruthtingay.bsky.social for the encouragement. The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having. Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk
Campaigners from the Weald Action Group outside the Supreme Court celebrating their historic judgment in June 2024.
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Another release of the day is "Deviant Matter" by @kwazana.bsky.social. Rot, jelly, ferment, and intoxication challenge us to think about resistance, race, and queer life across scales—from the molecular to the political. A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My book OIL is out now in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series! Sharing a few images below—big thanks to everyone who helped bring it to life 🌿 www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
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Oil
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains th…
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I own it now and so should you 🤩🔥🌿 @mltondre.bsky.social
Michael Tondre’s beautifully written and very very smart book OIL
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie! www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Book cover for Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling by Jamie L. Jones. Yellow and black design features a whale, a barrel of oil, and ocean waves
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Looking forward to presenting next week at the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for organizing the series--and so much else. Please join us on Monday 12/9 at 16:00 Central European time/10:00 Eastern. 🐋 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Online book talk: Jones, Rendered Obsolete – The Greenhouse
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
application season -- so sending this around again!
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Announcing the Vcologies Working Group’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Such a great opportunity—see the CFP below for more details.
The Vcologies Working Group announces the 2025 Early Career Paper Prize. The prize
recognizes work by rising scholars that exemplifies the Vcologies effort to consider
ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945.

Early career scholars working in any field are eligible. Graduate students and contingently
employed colleagues are especially encouraged to submit. “Early career” is defined as a scholar
of any rank or affiliation who is working toward a PhD, or who has received the PhD in the past
three calendar years (2021 or later). PhDs from 2020 are also eligible to apply in cases where
parental duties or medical leave have affected research.

The winning paper will be selected according to three criteria: (1) Potential significance for
Victorian studies and its relation to the study of ecology, broadly construed; (2) Quality and
depth of scholarly research and interpretation; (3) Clarity and effectiveness of presentation.
Papers will be anonymized before being forwarded to three judges. The prize award is $250

The prize is open to papers of no more than 3,500 words (not including notes, image captions, or references) written by early career scholars. Please submit papers in MS Word or PDF (with no identifying information on the document itself), along with (as a separate document) a cover sheet stating (1) your name, (2) year of Ph.D. (or year expected), (3) name of your degree-granting institution, (4) title of your essay, and (5) contact information, to Kathleen Frederickson at kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/11/2024
I've signed an open letter calling for a reform to the COP process, including only allowing countries actively trying to meet the Paris targets to host, and strengthening the mechanisms to hold countries accountable for their targets and commitments. Read more: www.clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2...
The heading of an Open Letter on COP reform to All States that are Parties to the Convention
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
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Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just opened my author copies for Oil, a short book on petroleum and climate politics in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. Excited for publication day later this month! www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/11/2024
i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
If you’re wondering how this election could be so close you should really read my new book, *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science*. It has no answers, and in fact has no insights into this election whatsoever. I just think you should read it because that would be super nice of you
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx...
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