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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer, Introduction: On the Energy Humanities
Judy Natal, Another Storm Is Coming
Amy De’Ath, Institutional Critique
One: Energy and Modernity: Histories and Futures
Introduction
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History: Four Theses
Imre Szeman, System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster
David Nye, The Great White Way
Pablo Neruda, Standard Oil Co.
Italo Calvino, The Petrol Pump
Stephen Collis, Reading Wordsworth in the Tar Sands
Hermann Scheer, The Visible Hand of the Sun: Blueprint for a Solar World
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels
Paolo Bacigalupi, excerpt from The Windup Girl
Margaret Atwood, It’s Not Climate Change—It’s Everything Change
Two: Energy, Power, and Politics
Introduction
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy
Dominic Boyer, Energopower: An Introduction
Jean-François Mouhot, Past Connections and Present Similarities in Slave Ownership and Fossil Fuel Usage
Michael Watts, Imperial Oil: The Anatomy of a Nigerian Oil Insurgency
John McGrath, excerpt from The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Gabrielle Hecht, Nuclear Ontologies
Gökçe Günel, A Dark Art: Field Notes on Carbon Capture and Storage Policy Negotiations at COP17
Sheena Wilson, Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations
Cymene Howe, Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca
Pope Francis, excerpt from Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home
Ken Saro-Wiwa, “Night Ride”
Three: Energy in Philosophy: Ethics, Politics, and Being
Introduction
Allan Stoekl, Bataille’s Ethics
Joseph Masco, Atomic Health, or How the Bomb Altered American Notions of Death
Laura Watts, The Draukie’s Tale: Origin Myth for Wave Energy
Timothy Morton, A Quake in Being
Martin McQuillan, Notes toward a Post-carbon Philosophy: “It’s the Economy, Stupid”
Roy Scranton, Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
Dale Jamieson, Ethics for the Anthropocene
Claire Colebrook, We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene: The Anthropocene Counterfactual
Karen Pinkus, Air
Reza Negarestani, excerpt from Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Four: The Aesthetics of Petrocultures
Introduction
Amitav Ghosh, Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel
Patricia Yaeger, Literature in the Ages of Wood . . .
Abdul Rahman Munif, excerpt from Cities of Salt
Lesley Battler, poems from Endangered Hydrocarbons
Julia Kasdorf, poems from Shale Play
Stephanie LeMenager, Petro-Melancholia: The BP Blowout and the Arts of Grief
Jennifer Wenzel, Petro-Magic-Realism: Toward a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature
Ursula Biemann and Andrew Pendakis, This Is Not a Pipeline: Thoughts on the Politico-aesthetics of Oil
Adam Dickinson, excerpt from The Polymers
Warren Cariou, An Athabasca Story
Barry Lord, What Does the Culture of Stewardship Look Like?
Graeme Macdonald, The Resources of Fiction
Marina Zurkow, Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, and Oliver Kellhammer, Dear Climate: Post-energy Previews
Works Cited
List of Contributors
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