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                                            Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- How to Use This Book xiii
- “Infinite” xv
- Introduction 1
- Aboriginal 17
- Accumulation 21
- Addiction 25
- Affect 28
- America 31
- Animal 35
- Anthropocene 1 39
- Anthropocene 2 43
- Architecture 47
- Arctic 51
- Automobile 54
- Automobility 57
- Boom 61
- Canada 65
- Catastrophe 68
- Change 71
- Charcoal 74
- China 1 76
- China 2 80
- Coal 83
- Coal Ash 87
- Community 91
- Corporation 95
- Crisis 99
- Dams 103
- Demand 107
- Detritus 110
- Disaster 114
- Ecology 117
- Electricity 120
- Embodiment 124
- Energopolitics 128
- Energy 132
- Energy Regimes 136
- Energy Systems 140
- Ethics 145
- Evolution 149
- Exhaust 152
- Exhaustion 155
- Fallout 158
- Fiction 162
- Fracking 166
- Future 170
- Gender 174
- Green 178
- Grids 182
- Guilt 186
- Identity 189
- Image 193
- Infrastructure 198
- Innervation 202
- Kerosene 206
- Lebenskraft 209
- Limits 212
- Media 215
- Mediashock 217
- Metabolism 220
- Middle East 224
- Nature 227
- Necessity 230
- Networks 234
- Nigeria 238
- Nuclear 1 242
- Nuclear 2 245
- Off-grid 248
- Offshore Rig 252
- Petro-violence 255
- Petrorealism 259
- Photography 263
- Pipelines 267
- Plastics 271
- Plastiglomerate 275
- Renewable 278
- Resilience 281
- Resource Curse 285
- Risk 289
- Roads 292
- Rubber 296
- Rural 300
- Russia 303
- Servers 307
- Shame 311
- Solar 314
- Spill 318
- Spills 321
- Spiritual 325
- Statistics 329
- Superhero Comics 333
- Surveillance 338
- Sustainability 342
- Tallow 346
- Texas 349
- Textiles 353
- Unobtainium 357
- Urban Ecology 361
- Utopia 365
- Venezuela 369
- Whaling 373
- Wood 376
- Work 1 379
- Work 2 383
- Oil/Lie 387
- Afterword 389
- Acknowledgments 395
- Works Cited 397
- Contributors 435
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- How to Use This Book xiii
- “Infinite” xv
- Introduction 1
- Aboriginal 17
- Accumulation 21
- Addiction 25
- Affect 28
- America 31
- Animal 35
- Anthropocene 1 39
- Anthropocene 2 43
- Architecture 47
- Arctic 51
- Automobile 54
- Automobility 57
- Boom 61
- Canada 65
- Catastrophe 68
- Change 71
- Charcoal 74
- China 1 76
- China 2 80
- Coal 83
- Coal Ash 87
- Community 91
- Corporation 95
- Crisis 99
- Dams 103
- Demand 107
- Detritus 110
- Disaster 114
- Ecology 117
- Electricity 120
- Embodiment 124
- Energopolitics 128
- Energy 132
- Energy Regimes 136
- Energy Systems 140
- Ethics 145
- Evolution 149
- Exhaust 152
- Exhaustion 155
- Fallout 158
- Fiction 162
- Fracking 166
- Future 170
- Gender 174
- Green 178
- Grids 182
- Guilt 186
- Identity 189
- Image 193
- Infrastructure 198
- Innervation 202
- Kerosene 206
- Lebenskraft 209
- Limits 212
- Media 215
- Mediashock 217
- Metabolism 220
- Middle East 224
- Nature 227
- Necessity 230
- Networks 234
- Nigeria 238
- Nuclear 1 242
- Nuclear 2 245
- Off-grid 248
- Offshore Rig 252
- Petro-violence 255
- Petrorealism 259
- Photography 263
- Pipelines 267
- Plastics 271
- Plastiglomerate 275
- Renewable 278
- Resilience 281
- Resource Curse 285
- Risk 289
- Roads 292
- Rubber 296
- Rural 300
- Russia 303
- Servers 307
- Shame 311
- Solar 314
- Spill 318
- Spills 321
- Spiritual 325
- Statistics 329
- Superhero Comics 333
- Surveillance 338
- Sustainability 342
- Tallow 346
- Texas 349
- Textiles 353
- Unobtainium 357
- Urban Ecology 361
- Utopia 365
- Venezuela 369
- Whaling 373
- Wood 376
- Work 1 379
- Work 2 383
- Oil/Lie 387
- Afterword 389
- Acknowledgments 395
- Works Cited 397
- Contributors 435