Energy humanities : an anthology / edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szeman, Imre, 1968- editor.

Boyer, Dominic, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Power resources--Social aspects.

Power resources.

Power resources--Philosophy.

Power resources--Political aspects.

Power resources--Moral and ethical aspects.

Fossil fuels--Social aspects.

Fossil fuels.

Nuclear energy--Social aspects.

Nuclear energy.

Petroleum--Social aspects.

Petroleum.

Social aspects.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 595 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical humanities and digital humanities before it, overcomes traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Like its predecessors, energy humanities highlights the essential contribution that the insights and methods of the human sciences can make to areas of study and analysis once thought best left to the natural sciences. This isn't a case of the humanities simply helping their cross-campus colleagues to learn the mechanics of communication so that they might better articulate their ideas. Rather, these fields of scholarship are ones that demonstrate how the scale and complexity of the issues being explored demand insights and approaches that transcend old school disciplinary boundaries. Energy Humanities : A Reader offers a carefully curated selection of the best and most influential work in energy humanities that has appeared over the past decade. To stay true to the diverse work that makes up this emergent field, selections range from anthropology and geography to philosophy, history, and cultural studies to recent energy-focused interventions in art and literature. The three readers all agree that this is an important, ground-breaking collection of work"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Energy and Modernity: Histories and Futures

Introduction 27

The Climate of History: Four Theses / Dipesh Chakrabarty Chakrabarty, Dipesh 32

System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster / Imre Szeman Szeman, Imre 55

The Great White Way / David Nye Nye, David 71

Standard Oil Co. / Pablo Neruda Neruda, Pablo 80

The Petrol Pump / Italo Calvino Calvino, Italo 82

Reading Wordsworth in the Tar Sands / Stephen Collis Collis, Stephen 86

The Visible Hand of the Sun: Blueprint for a Solar World / Hermann Scheer Scheer, Hermann 97

The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels / Naomi Oreskes Oreskes, Naomi, Erik M. Conway Conway, Erik M. 107

Excerpt from The Windup Girl / Paolo Bacigalupi Bacigalupi, Paolo 120

It's Not Climate Change-It's Everything Change / Margaret Atwood Atwood, Margaret 139

2 Energy, Power, and Politics

Introduction 151

Carbon Democracy / Timothy Mitchell Mitchell, Timothy 157

Energopower: An Introduction / Dominic Boyer Boyer, Dominic 184

Past Connections and Present Similarities in Slave Ownership and Fossil Fuel Usage / Jean-Francois Mouhot Mouhot, Jean-Francois 205

Imperial Oil: The Anatomy of a Nigerian Oil Insurgency / Michael Watts Watts, Michael 219

Excerpt from The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil / John McGrath McGrath, John 236

Nuclear Ontologies / Gabrielle Hecht Hecht, Gabrielle 249

A Dark Art: Field Notes on Carbon Capture and Storage Policy Negotiations at COP₁₇ / Gökçe Günel Günel, Gökçe 261

Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations / Sheena Wilson Wilson, Sheena 269

Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca / Cymene Howe Howe, Cymene 284

Excerpt from Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home / Pope Francis Francis, Pope 304

"Night Ride" / Ken Saro-Wiwa Saro-Wiwa, Ken 310

3 Energy in Philosophy: Ethics, Politics, and Being

Introduction 317

Bataille's Ethics / Allan Stoekl Stoekl, Allan 323

Atomic Health, or How the Bomb Altered American Notions of Death / Joseph Masco Masco, Joseph 339

The Draukie's Tale: Origin Myth for Wave Energy / Laura Watts Watts, Laura 352

A Quake in Being / Timothy Morton Morton, Timothy 357

Notes toward a Post-carbon Philosophy: "It's the Economy, Stupid" / Martin McQuillan McQuillan, Martin 373

Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton Scranton, Roy 384

Ethics for the Anthropocene / Dale Jamieson Jamieson, Dale 389

We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene: The Anthropocene Counterfactual / Claire Colebrook Colebrook, Claire 399

Air / Karen Pinkus Pinkus, Karen 414

Excerpt from Cydonopedia; Complicity with Anonymous Materials / Reza Negarestani Negarestani, Reza 422

4 The Aesthetics of Petrocultures

Introduction 427

Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel / Amitav Ghosh Ghosh, Amitav 431

Literature in the Ages of Wood... / Patricia Yaeger Yaeger, Patricia 440

Excerpt from Cities of Salt / Abdul Rahman Munif Munif, Abdul Rahman 445

Poems from Endangered Hydrocarbons / Lesley Battler Battler, Lesley 454

Poems from Shale Play / Julia Kasdorf Kasdorf, Julia 466

Petro-Melancholia: The BP Blowout and the Arts of Grief / Stephanie LeMenager LeMenager, Stephanie 470

Petro-Magic-Realism: Toward a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature / Jennifer Wenzel Wenzel, Jennifer 486

This Is Not a Pipeline: Thoughts on the Politico-aesthetics of Oil / Ursula Biemann Biemann, Ursula, Andrew Pendakis Pendakis, Andrew 504

Excerpt from The Polymers / Adam Dickinson Dickinson, Adam 512

An Athabasca Story / Warren Cariou Cariou, Warren 515

What Does the Culture of Stewardship Look Like? / Barry Lord Lord, Barry 520

The Resources of Fiction / Graeme Macdonald Macdonald, Graeme 529

Deor Climate: Post-energy Previews / Marina Zurkow Zurkow, Marina, Una Chaudhuri Chaudhuri, Una, Fritz Ertl Ertl, Fritz, Oliver Kellhammer Kellhammer, Oliver 549.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781421421889

9781421421896

1421421887

1421421895

OCLC:

950202625

Publisher Number:

99971291692