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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
... reveal the fantastical lengths to which Big Oil was willing to go in its efforts to preemptively block the research and development of electric vehicles, principally by diverting to the imaginary prospect of a gasoline-powered but nonetheless “smogless” car. This history represents an early...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Tesla Motors Master Plan,” a long-term strategy to move, so it claims, from a “mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy.” 17 Lithium-ion “power-wall” batteries and electric vehicles will become a planet-spanning storage and use network, a rhizomatic and automobile capacitor...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Shaping of Technology: California's Electric Vehicle Program,” Science, Technology and Human Values 26, no. 1 (2001): 56–81; Robert Hoed, Driving Fuel Cell Vehicles. How Established Industries React to Radical Technologies (Delft: University of Technology, 2004); Stuart Peters and Anne-Marie Coles...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
....” 30 In other words, we risk repeating all of the extractivist logics and brutal inequities that have gotten us into this mess. This is already being enacted with the switch to electric vehicles and the correlated plunder of the Atacama Desert, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the deep sea...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2022
... on our collective creativity, irreverence, mutuality, and perhaps the most primal quality demanded by our pivotal, cognitively dissonant, environmental moment: hope. Thus eco-comedy is more than a fringe electric in the environmental humanist’s garage. It’s a vehicle that can disarm, reveal truths...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-meter tsunami that breached the breakwater at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) and flooded the seaside reactors. The power plant operator, Tokyo Electric (TEPCO), had failed to provide backup power to cool down the three reactors, resulting in a series of hydrogen explosions in the days...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the narrator urged, and drink a lot of water. Ask for help instead of trying to figure things out on your own, or improvising. Do not take vehicles without permission (a story had been circulating about a recent firing, which occurred after a base employee drove a vehicle up Mt. Erebus, unauthorized). More...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Electricity infrastructure. 4 In one small village alone, 38 people died, 34 in another, 173 in total. Mostly they died in their own houses, some in or near vehicles, others in homemade fire bunkers. 5 And then the mess, a massive flotsam of charred refuse. Slicks of metal that had been lawn mowers...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... with its attendant practices of art, irony, and pseudoscience, can be a vehicle for “revealing and protecting” secrets at the same time. Backster’s claims may fail as science, but they succeed as performance art, as cultural criticism, as eco-provocation, as a viral meme (in the Dawkinsian sense), and even...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence, and Truth , edited by Cochrane Claire and Robinson Jo , 60 – 81 . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Garelick Rhonda K. Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2007...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
... puts it, “modes of being” and “modes of knowing” that fuse Hindu-Buddhist and animist worlds as a means of playing with ambiguity. 16 Rosalind Morris and Peter Jackson, in very different ways, emphasize the relationship that the medium has with modernity, as spirits become the vehicle through which...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
... fetishized under capitalism. Viewed from this perspective, modern bioenergy projects might even be said to put plants to work not just as increasingly productive (and hence profitable) energy carriers, but also as metaphorical vehicles for long-standing European ideas about the innate virtuousness of ever...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., were key to automobile technology, as they were both more transportable and more energy-dense than coal. 30 Although coal remained the main source for electricity production, car use increased to such a degree that petroleum consumption in the United States surpassed coal consumption in 1950 (see...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... fiction, in which turtle sex is stimulated with an “electrical probe to induce a partial penile erection” and a “fiber-optic endoscope to locate the compartment leading to [the female turtle’s] oviducts.” 2 These rather racy excerpts from the Science section of the newspaper might seem like an outré...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... are unwritten. 19 Communities of speakers keep essential information in their languages, like topography of rivers, mountains, and forests, and encyclopedias of plant and animal species, including which ones are edible or poisonous or can be used as medicines. Language is the vehicle for transmitting codes...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and laconic tone in narrating the often horrific human suffering resulting from the unintended consequences of earlier human activities. “For a while,” we are informed, “they buried the bodies in mass graves with bulldozers.” 36 Later on, when electricity fails and corpses are simply placed outside...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 118–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... ones how to live and survive in an anthropogenic landscape. She leads them to the most nutritious and tasty plants that humans grow in their fields. She shows them how to trespass human infrastructure and to outsmart human technology—to jump over trenches, tear down electric fences, and cross well...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
... ... it was a drama of incomplete and unrealistic characters. 74 Before the advent of electricity and film, actors would use dramatic iconic and indexical gesture to communicate emotion by fire or candlelight. Method acting was not an essential skill. Rather, pantomime was essential. The expression...
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