Imre Szeman is University Research Chair of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. His recent books include On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (WVU Press), After Oil (WVU Press), Energy Humanities: An Anthology, and Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment.Jeff Diamanti teaches literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the editor of Contemporary Marxist Theory, Materialism and the Critique of Energy, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, as well as a special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory on energy humanities and a double issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities on climate realism.

• IntroductionPart I: Mapping Energy CultureOil on WaterTrespassageThe Ocean and the Cloud: Material Metaphors of Hidden InfrastructureWalking Matters: A Peripatetic Rethinking of Energy CultureSeveral Documents Pertaining to the Cascade Energy (transition) Park Corporation Corporation (CORPCORP)Sustaining Petrocultures: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Oil Sands ReclamationPart II: Figuring Energy CultureCapitalism in the Corpse of a WhaleTilting at Windfarms: Towards a Political Ecology of Energy Humanism and the Literary AestheticEmbodied Actants, Fossil NarrativesThe Energy ApparatusAeolian SurveyAnecdotal Encounters on Driveways: The Aesthetics of Oil in Northern Alberta and NewfoundlandEnergy Meets Telepathy Aesthetics and Materialist ConsciousnessPart III: The Politics of Energy CultureRejecting Solar CapitalismThe SwitchBeyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure, and SabotageStrikeEnergized Antagonisms: Thinking Beyond ‘Energy Culture’Vortex of Light (Ice Memoriam)

“An exemplary multidisciplinary approach to entangled questions of energy, politics, and aesthetics. Energy Culture should excite and inspire an interdisciplinary community of scholars, artists, and activists; it not only points to possible ways forward for thinking and acting, but also offers tangible, provocative examples of what our creative and critical practices might do.”- Thomas S. Davis, author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life