... an experiential first-person narrative. Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor of Sociology and Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She is a member of the Calcutta Research Group. Jordan B. Kinder is Research Director of the Petrocultures Research Group and incoming SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill...

...Dominic Boyer It has been increasingly common to hear talk of the need for “revolutionary action” to break the Anthropocene/Capitalocene trajectory of northern petroculture. Sometimes this talk is deployed by transition-oriented political movements like Sunrise and Extinction Rebellion. At other...

... that might inform policy and proposes that not all solar powered projects are equal. While some produce solarities (more just energy futures), others operationalize solar energy’s good press towards solarcultural futures that are little more than an extension of the petrocultural status quo. Copyright ©...

... Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Murphy Michelle . 2017 . “ Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations .” Cultural Anthropology 32 , no. 4 : 494 – 503 . Petrocultures Research Group . 2019 . Solarity: Energy...

... Imre the Petrocultures Research Group . 2016 . After Oil . Morgantown : West Virginia University Press . Vaden Teré Salminen Antti . 2018 . “ Ethics, Nafthism, and the Fossil Subject .” Relations 6 , no. 1 : 33 – 48 . Van Veelen Bregje . 2019 . “ What Can Energy...

..., then, in order to articulate the risk Boetzkes Cold Sun Hot Planet 93 that solarity might mutate with the petrocultural regimes from which it emerges and become a new capitalist energy regime that accelerates or oth- erwise exacerbates our current course toward planetary destruction. The question I would...

... signatures named and explained in these examples of futurity serve, in distinct but complementary ways, to enable and perpetuate the stuckness of energy impasse. The essay’s argument illuminates the abiding challenge posed by petroculture, while considering the implications of impasse time for the form...

...: On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else .” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture , edited by Wilson Sheena Carlson Adam Szeman Imre , 3 – 20 . Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen’s University Press . The South Atlantic Quarterly 120:1, January 2021 doi...

...), Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture (2017); Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2017); and Glo- balization, Culture, Energy: Selected Essays, 2000–2013 (2017). Miriam Tola works at the intersection of political theory and feminist and deco- lonial environmental humanities. Her work has appeared in Hypatia...

... agree with them: it s not, not within the petroculture in which we now live. Gwyneth is thoroughly inscribed in and identified with neolib- eral entrepreneurialism, speaking a hodgepodge of Silicon-Valley life-hack self-care jargon. This is most jarringly obvious in the opening sequence of the show...