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Mariel Kieval analyzes Kazakhstan’s state museums as cultural sites where fossil fuels continue to structure national identity, even as the government promotes a green transition. Drawing on fieldwork across multiple cities, the piece shows how exhibitions and artworks valorize oil while sidelining labor unrest and environmental harm, revealing how energy transition remains culturally unresolved.
In part two of our Forum on Fossil Capital, Daniel Worden explores how Malm's work helps to make it clear how a revised cultural history of modernity can synthesize energy and capitalism, how criticism can make visible our culture’s authorization of fossil fuel systems, and how a thinker might distinguish between fossil capital’s ideological forms and the forms of alternatives.
