Conjectures on world energy literature: Or, what is petroculture?

摘要: AbstractHow might one begin to use energy as a critical component of cultural and literary analysis, especially within world-literary studies? Does making link between specific system previously defined period, movement or form open up new way analysing corresponding texts? This article argues that the most important reasons for reading into literature and, indeed, is it can provide us with political resources we otherwise lack. While imagine modern period an era shaped in relation fossil fuels, outcome this periodization different than think. Besides offering insights shape taken by form, what such also allows grapple are deep complex ways which has capacities, beliefs practices capitalist modernity.