Title & Author:

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

Publication:

©2017
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Description:

viii, 595 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-587) and index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the energy humanities / Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer -- Another storm is coming / Judy Natal -- Institutional critique / Amy De'Ath. -- One. Energy and modernity : histories and futures: Introduction -- The climate of history: four theses / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- System failure: oil, futurity, and the anticipation of disaster / Imre Szeman -- The great white way / David Nye -- Standard Oil Co. / Pablo Neruda -- The petrol pump / Italo Calvino -- Reading Wordsworth in the tar sands / Stephen Collis -- The visible hand of the sun: blueprint for a solar world / Hermann Scheer -- The frenzy of fossil fuels / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway -- Excerpt from The Windup Girl / Paolo Bacigalupi -- It's not climate change--it's everything change / Margaret Atwood. -- Two. Energy, power, and politics: Introduction -- Carbon democracy / Timothy Mitchell -- Energopower: an introduction / Dominic Boyer -- Past connections and present similarities in slave ownership and fossil fuel usage / Jean-François Mouhot -- Imperial Oil: the anatomy of a Nigerian oil insurgency / Michael Watts -- Excerpt from The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil / John McGrath -- Nuclear ontologies / Gabrielle Hecht -- A dark art: field notes on carbon capture and storage policy negotiations at COP17 / Gökçe Günel -- Gendering oil: tracing western petrosexual relations / Sheena Wilson -- Anthropocenic ecoauthority: the winds of Oaxaca / Cymene Howe -- Excerpt from Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home / Pope Francis -- "Night Ride" / Ken Saro-Wiwa --
Three. Energy in philosophy: ethics, politics, and being: Introduction -- Bataille's ethics / Allan Stoekl -- Atomic health, or how the bomb altered American notions of death / Joseph Masco -- The draukie's tale: origin myth for wave energy / Laura Watts -- A quake in being / Timothy Morton -- Notes toward a post-carbon philosophy: "it's the economy, stupid" / Martin McQuillan -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton -- Ethics for the Anthropocene / Dale Jamieson -- We have always been post-Anthropocene: the Anthropocene counterfactual / Claire Colebrook -- Air / Karen Pinkus -- Excerpt from Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials / Reza Negarestani. -- Four. The aesthetics of petrocultures: Introduction. Petrofiction: the oil encounter and the novel / Amitav Ghosh -- Literature in the ages of wood ... / Patricia Yaeger -- Excerpt from Cities of Salt / Abdul Rahman Munif -- Poems from Endangered Hydrocarbons / Lesley Battler -- Poems from Shale Play / Julia Kasdorf -- Petro-melancholia: the BP blowout and the arts of grief / Stephanie LeMenager -- Petro-magic-realism: toward a political ecology of Nigerian literature / Jennifer Wenzel -- This is not a pipeline: thoughts on the politico-aesthetics of oil / Ursula Biemann and Andrew Pendakis -- Excerpt from the Polymers / Adam Dickinson -- An Athabasca story / Warren Cariou -- What does the culture of stewardship look like? / Barry Lord -- The resources of fiction / Graeme Macdonald. -- Dear climate: post-energy reviews / Marina Zurkow, Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, and Oliver Kellhammer -- Works cited -- List of contributors.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781421421889 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9781421421896 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
(electronic)
9781421421902
1421421887 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
1421421895 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
(electronic)
1421421909

Subject:

Humanities Philosophy.
Power resources Social aspects.
Power resources Philosophy.
Power resources Political aspects.
Power resources Moral and ethical aspects.
Fossil fuels Social aspects.
Nuclear energy Social aspects.
Petroleum Social aspects.
Ressources énergétiques Aspect social.
Ressources énergétiques Philosophie.
Ressources énergétiques Aspect politique.
Ressources énergétiques Aspect moral.
Combustibles fossiles Aspect social.
Énergie nucléaire Aspect social.
Pétrole Aspect social.

Form/genre:

Anthologies.

Added entries:

Szeman, Imre, 1968- editor.
Boyer, Dominic, editor.
Boyer, Dominic editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295531
Call No.: BIB 241756
Status: Available