Because there’s an urgent need for us to reject the reigning “energy regime” of fossil fuel extraction, a collective of authors and academics who collaborate under the name After Oil (https://afteroil.ca/) convene to imagine pathways out of our current impasse, to develop methods of resolving the sense of “stuckness” that defines our current moment, and to think about climate action. One of the interventions produced is this six-episode podcast series, funded by Future Energy Systems and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
Volatile Trajectories: Climate Crisis + Energy Transition
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Because there’s an urgent need for us to reject the reigning “energy regime” of fossil fuel extraction, a collective of authors and academics who collaborate under the name After Oil (https://afteroil.ca/) convene to imagine pathways out of our current impasse, to develop methods of resolving the sense of “stuckness” that defines our current moment, and to think about climate action. One of the interventions produced is this six-episode podcast series, funded by Future Energy Systems and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
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January 9, 2023
Episode 6 - Politics after Academia Part 2: Ends
<p>In this episode of Volatile Trajectories, you’ll hear from Darin Barney, Walter Gordon and Bob Johnson about how they define and defy the boundaries that exist between the interior and exterior of the university.<br> <br> Walter Gordon is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow in the department of English at Stanford University, where he studies African American literature, energy, and the environment. Walter was recently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Public Energy Humanities at the University of Alberta. He is currently working on a book titled Prime Movers: Energy and Modernity in African American Literature, which tracks the interlinked literary histories of King Coal and Jim Crow, among other entanglements of race and energy. Darin Barney is Professor and Grierson Chair in Communication Studies at McGill University. Barney’s research concerns the forms and media of politics at the intersection of materials, energy, infrastructure and environments. His current work involves an investigation of emerging formats for the storage, transportation and use of bitumen in the Canadian oil patch, and infrastructural transformations in the Canadian grain sector. And Bob Johnson is author of Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture and Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy. His current work takes on the prevailing empiricist and alternative social constructivist paradigms in climate studies to reconceive climate as a hybridized object.<br> <br> Their conversation is a stirring confrontation with what Darin calls “institutionalized knowledge practice” and the “agony” of the obvious contradiction between occupying sites of hegemonic power and actively working against what Robin D. G. Kelley has called the “prestige machine” of academia. Barney talks about the nascent field of the “energy humanities” as a site of knowledge production where this conflict is felt in a particularly explosive way, and suggests that can be a field where experts in energy transition embrace the goal of producing a more oppositional, politically-inflected and radically inclusive iteration of the university.</p> <p><strong>Show less</strong></p>
January 9, 2023
Episode 5 - Politics after Academia 1: Acts
<p>In this episode of Volatile Trajectories, you’ll hear from Rhys Williams, Stacey Balkan, and Tommy Davis about how their hope for “revolutionary forms of infrastructure,” to guard against disastrous futures and quickly accelerating climate collapse, hinges in certain ways on both an “aesthetic education that centralizes conversations about more hopeful futures” and moving beyond merely imagining alternatives to doing the political work necessary to bring them into being.<br> <br> But let me give you some background on Tommy, Rhys and Stacey. Tommy Davis is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary literature, environmental humanities, and coordinates study abroad programs to southern Louisiana and Antarctica. He’s the author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life and he is currently finishing his second book, Unnatural Attachments: Aesthetic Education and Ecological Crisis. Rhys Williams is a Lecturer in Energy and Environmental Humanities at the University of Glasgow. He works on the intersection of narrative and infrastructure in future-making, especially with respect to food and energy. He has written extensively on solar infrastructures and imaginaries, most recently in the journals South Atlantic Quarterly and Open Library of the Humanities. And Stacey Balkan is an Associate Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member for the university’s Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation. She is the author of Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India and co-editor, with Dr. Swaralipi Nandi, of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere.<br> <br> This conversation is a lively one, recorded at a fairly noisy bistro, with all the sounds of people playing pool and children’s shoes squeaking. They seem to harness the energy of that space to engage with questions around how we’ve been sold a certain narrative about the inevitability of fossil fuels. Tommy talks about how it might be the responsibility of the “energy humanities” and environmental communicators to “expose that configuration as historical” and work to unmake it. But at the same time, Rhys points out that it’s not as simple as just undoing a narrative or exposing a history of manipulation. We have to engage with the degree to which “petrocultural” ideology is now a firmly “material thing,” solidified as social and empirical fact. This makes it much harder to dislodge, but identifies the enemy of energy transition in a more substantive way.</p> <p><strong>Show less</strong></p>
January 9, 2023
Episode 4 - Connections to the Land
<p>In this episode, you’ll hear from Emily Eaton, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Scott Stoneman, Mark Simpson and Penelope Plaza about our relationships to the places we know and care about, and about our discrete approaches to breaking the spell of fossil capitalism, petroculture, oil — the dominant energy regime of our time.<br> <br> To give you a sense of who you’ll be listening to: Mark Simpson hosts this discussion. Mark is a settler scholar and professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta (Treaty Six/Métis Territory). His work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Postmodern Culture, and English Studies in Canada, among other venues. Emily Eaton is a professor in the department of geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina, in Treaty Four. She is a white settler whose research and teaching looks at the climate and inequality crises at local and national scales. Emily’s the author of two books: Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan's Oil Economy and Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically-Modified Wheat. Eva-Lynn Jagoe is a professor at University of Toronto, where she teaches cinema, literature, creative writing, and environment in the Spanish Department and in Comparative Literature. She is the author of Take Her, She's Yours. Penelope Plaza is a Venezuelan architect and researcher. Through her profession in the arts and urban activism Penelope developed an interest in the intersections between politics, culture, architecture and urban space.<br> <br> Our conversation focuses on not just a love of the land, but stubborn attachments to particular uses of the land. Ways of cultivating, caring for, and working the land that have complex histories and serious consequences. We talk about the language of maintenance, both in terms of the maintenance of infrastructure, and in the context of a larger push for a culture of care that sees us taking a backseat to the land’s understanding of itself.</p> <p><strong>Show less</strong></p>
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