Unobtainium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. How to Use This Book xiii
4. “Infinite” xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Aboriginal 17
7. Accumulation 21
8. Addiction 25
9. Affect 28
10. America 31
11. Animal 35
12. Anthropocene 1 39
13. Anthropocene 2 43
14. Architecture 47
15. Arctic 51
16. Automobile 54
17. Automobility 57
18. Boom 61
19. Canada 65
20. Catastrophe 68
21. Change 71
22. Charcoal 74
23. China 1 76
24. China 2 80
25. Coal 83
26. Coal Ash 87
27. Community 91
28. Corporation 95
29. Crisis 99
30. Dams 103
31. Demand 107
32. Detritus 110
33. Disaster 114
34. Ecology 117
35. Electricity 120
36. Embodiment 124
37. Energopolitics 128
38. Energy 132
39. Energy Regimes 136
40. Energy Systems 140
41. Ethics 145
42. Evolution 149
43. Exhaust 152
44. Exhaustion 155
45. Fallout 158
46. Fiction 162
47. Fracking 166
48. Future 170
49. Gender 174
50. Green 178
51. Grids 182
52. Guilt 186
53. Identity 189
54. Image 193
55. Infrastructure 198
56. Innervation 202
57. Kerosene 206
58. Lebenskraft 209
59. Limits 212
60. Media 215
61. Mediashock 217
62. Metabolism 220
63. Middle East 224
64. Nature 227
65. Necessity 230
66. Networks 234
67. Nigeria 238
68. Nuclear 1 242
69. Nuclear 2 245
70. Off-grid 248
71. Offshore Rig 252
72. Petro-violence 255
73. Petrorealism 259
74. Photography 263
75. Pipelines 267
76. Plastics 271
77. Plastiglomerate 275
78. Renewable 278
79. Resilience 281
80. Resource Curse 285
81. Risk 289
82. Roads 292
83. Rubber 296
84. Rural 300
85. Russia 303
86. Servers 307
87. Shame 311
88. Solar 314
89. Spill 318
90. Spills 321
91. Spiritual 325
92. Statistics 329
93. Superhero Comics 333
94. Surveillance 338
95. Sustainability 342
96. Tallow 346
97. Texas 349
98. Textiles 353
99. Unobtainium 357
100. Urban Ecology 361
101. Utopia 365
102. Venezuela 369
103. Whaling 373
104. Wood 376
105. Work 1 379
106. Work 2 383
107. Oil/Lie 387
108. Afterword 389
109. Acknowledgments 395
110. Works Cited 397
111. Contributors 435