Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti
Part I: Mapping Energy Culture
1 Oil on Water / Ernst Logar
2 Trespassage / Mél Hogan
3 The Ocean and the Cloud: Material Metaphors of Hidden Infrastructure / Jayne Wilkinson
4 Walking Matters: A Peripatetic Rethinking of Energy Culture / Mary Elizabeth Luka
5 Several Documents Pertaining to the Cascade Energy (transition) Park Corporation Corporation (CORPCORP) / Marissa Benedict, Cameron Hu, Christopher Malcolm, and David Rueter
6 Sustaining Petrocultures: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Oil Sands Reclamation / Jordan Kinder
Part II: Figuring Energy Culture
7 Capitalism in the Corpse of a Whale / Ackroyd and Harvey
8 Tilting at Windfarms: Towards a Political Ecology of Energy Humanism and the Literary Aesthetic / David Thomas
9 Embodied Actants, Fossil Narratives / Maria Michails, Interviewed by Andrea Zeffiro
10 The Energy Apparatus / Am Johal
11 Aeolian Survey / Hannah Imlach and Thomas Butler
12 Anecdotal Encounters on Driveways: The Aesthetics of Oil in Northern Alberta and Newfoundland / Megan Green
13 Energy Meets Telepathy Aesthetics and Materialist Consciousness / Jacquelene Drinkall
Part III: The Politics of Energy Culture
14 Rejecting Solar Capitalism / Jenni Matchett
15 The Switch / Keller Easterling
16 Beyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure, and Sabotage / Darin Barney 0
17 Strike / Antonio Negri
18 Energized Antagonisms: Thinking Beyond “Energy Culture” / Matthew Huber
19 Vortex of Light (Ice Memoriam) / Maya Weeks
Contributors
Index