Full Description
This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies. Taylor examines how fossil fuels have frequently been described as the lifeblood of capitalist modernity, making petroleum appear as something intrinsic to human life. Through examining works such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon and Michel Faber's Under the Skin, this book highlights the commodification of nonhuman life in the history of energy and, paradoxically, how these nonhuman actors have been unacknowledged and silenced through time.
Contents
1: Introduction: Alliance of Fields, Petrocultures and Animal Studies.- 2: Politics of Attention and Ethics of Vulnerability.- 3: Magnifying the Peripheral, Meat and Oil.- 4: Infrastructure of Energy, Oil Spills and Road Kill.- 5: Transitions, Energy Futures and Multispecies Relations.- 6: Conclusion: Vulnerability and Co-Existence.
