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... 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 energy energy humanities commons Ivan Illich Works Cited Buck-Morss Susan . 2002 . Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Caffentzis George . 2004 . “ The Petroleum Commons...

...); Fueling Culture: 101 Words on Energy and Environment (2017, edited with Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger); and Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2017, edited with Dominic Boyer). ...

... even longer than the caves of Lascaux have existed. Any lingering doubts that the Anthropocene marks the epoch of our becoming posthuman will easily be dispelled by even a casual glance at the technical reports of the US Department of Energy’s “Human Interference Taskforce” (DOE 1984...

.... As a result, new contraptions have been arising at a frantic pace, most of which are dedicated to the exploitation of the world s resources or the capture of humanity s psychic energy. It was rightminded of Virilio (2009: 41) to proclaim that speed is the aging of the world. If we apply the logic of Daoist...

...—the amplifying feedback loop between surplus value and the surplus energy derived from fossil fuels, which effects a rift in the biospheric carbon cycle—I track a metaphoric drift in materialist invocations of air toward ideality and ahistoricity: atmosphere as allegory of the outside. The atmospheric figures...

..., at least in the near term, now prompts frequent use of the rhetoric of disaster to portray the human-induced shock to earth’s ecosystems. Intertwined with bio- diversity depletion are a whole host of human-caused planetary dis- tresses, including global warming, melting glaciers that will change...

... physical bodies are and can be recognized as differing constellations of closeness, alliance, and energy formation (agential cuts), and with this they are in mattering, diffractive, intra- active relations with the biopolitics of understood-as human bodies, racializations, affectivities.9 Identity...

.../contingency of the expressions and forms of conceptions as real things. From the materialist investigations that coalesced through and in the merger of the sciences with humanities research (notably in Bergson 2004; Haraway 1988, 1991, 1997; Barad 2007; Lévy-Leblond 1976, 1999; Plotnitsky 2006...

..., NY : Punctum Books . O'Rourke Michael . 2011 . “‘Girls Welcome!!!’ Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Queer Theory.” Speculations 2 : 276 – 312 . Reprinted in Kolozova and Joy 2016: 159–97 . Vermeulen Timotheus . 2014 . “Borrowed Energy” (interview...

... in the LSS, then findings suggest that the embodied nature of sentience is not confined to humans; sentience is achieved through individuation, true, but through an energetics and informatics whereby changes in energy gra- dients are the very marks, traces, and messages that constitute an indi...

... . Eilperin Juliet Mufson Steven 2017 . “ Trump Seeks to Revive Dakota Access, Keystone XL Oil Pipelines .” Washington Post , January 24 . www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/24/trumpgives-green-light-to-dakota-access-keystone-xl-oil-pipelines/?noredirect=on&utm_term...

... motifs of storytelling, measuring, repetition, evolution, pollution, love, place, and planet in order to fathom humans as a biosphere-altering geologic agent, ultimately resolves into both a critique of cyclical patterns of anthropogenic socioecological destructiveness and an exemplary theorization...

... (from Marx and Engels to Bloch and Jameson), I nevertheless (with utopians of the Left such as Ruth Levitas) step into the warm stream of a “militant optimism,” in Bloch's words, that aims to set free “the repressed elements of the new, humanized society.” I therefore examine the dialectical tension...

... of sound and human bodies. The penultimate paragraph of the first chapter is a description of the three boys, Sandeep and his two cousins, walking after their baths: When they had had their bath, they trooped out like naked ruffians on an island, splattering the floor with their wet footprints (6...

...Susan Hegeman; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock The concept of the commons is central to an argument that connects indigenous people and their struggles both to global politics and to radical reconceptualizations of the relationships among knowledges, resources, and human communities...

... on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change (2011). 180 the minnesota review Derek Woods is a PhD student in English at Rice University. His research centers on twentieth-century US and Canadian environmen- tal literature, science studies, and cultural theory. He...

... to the way we do scholarship across many humanities disciplines, it has also at times allowed claims to identity to trump other claims, thereby disabling reciprocal reason-giving argument. Cerniglia I know that you rely on Habermas quite a bit, and one criticism of him has...

... capture aspects of human experiences, then a good story is analytic and theoretical, because it achieves that goal. Specifically, creative nonfictions display interpretative openness, allowing readers to understand a phenomenon in a myriad of ways instead of having a specific view imposed...

..., energies, and vibrations (2020: 158). But unlike both Bennett and Jackson, the type of Black ecology we see in Brown is not yoked to a rethinking of the material boundary between the animal/human dyad but rather to a larger scale that reimagines human life more broadly conceived. As she asks: What if we...

..., ghostly in their objecthood and object presence; third, the “connective desire” where plastic becomes the “plastic subject” and initiates manifold becomings through instances like the plastiglomerates, the plastic-rock that expands the human-nonhuman affective arc of transmedial existence. Invested in art...