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On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy

On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy is a work by cultural theorist Imre Szeman. The book collects a series of articles about our current relationship with oil. These are grouped chronologically in twelve chapters, from 2001 to 2018, and feature some of Szeman’s most important writings as well as other recent analyses. Throughout all his…

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After Oil

After Oil is a joint piece of writing from the University of Alberta’s Petrocultures Research Group. It is based on the thoughts and insigts of 35 international humanities researchers and artists who met in Edmonton in 2015 to discuss how oil has affected postindustrial society. After Oil is held together by three premises that support…

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Reviews in Cultural Theory: Energy Humanities

The collection of essays in this special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory–Energy Humanities, edited by Jeff Diamanti and Ryan Bellamy, were first presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Languages Association in Vancouver in 2015. They were sparked by what a vast and diverse group of scholars have labelled Energy Humanities since the…

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On the Energy Humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to Understanding Energy Transition and Energy Impasse

On the Energy Humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to Understanding Energy Transition and Energy Impasse is a report by the SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future Initiative, Knowledge Synthesis Grants, led by Imre Szeman, that was elaborated to conduct a study of contemporary research on the social, cultural and political components of energy…

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Energy and Experience: An Essay in Nafthology

Energy and Experience: An Essay in Nafthology by Antti Salminen and Tere Vadén is a philosophical manifesto confronting the conceptual structures of our fossil modernity, which they see as a historical exceptional period that cannot be perpetuated, as it is closer linked to a state of non-renewable surplus energy than to any myth of intellectual…

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Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture is a book edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman that increases the scope of the Energy Humanities and, throught its multidisciplinary effort and a broad array of historical, geographical, and literary study, serves to consolidate the significance of this field of research. This extensive book examines a barrel…

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Materialism and the Critique of Energy

Materialism and the Critique of Energy, edited by Jeff Diamanti and Brent Ryan Bellamy, gathers twenty-one multidisciplinary theorists to rethink and elaborate a materialism critical of the impact that large-scale energy has on the economy, politics, culture, and environment of our social life. From Marxist-feminism to “electroculture, from energy-critique analysis to the historical role of…

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