Monographs
Imagining Free Energy: Fantasies, Utopias, and Critiques of America
Monograph. Imagining Free Energy asks the question: What would it mean for humanity to have unlimited energy? I introduce the concept of free or unlimited energy as a critical imaginary for understanding America in the Anthropocene. From Henry David Thoreau’s critique of a nineteenth century free energy utopia to present day conjectures about new fusion technologies in development around the globe, free energy speculation is examined as a mode of theorizing the relationship between human social processes and the material environment. (Preparing for submission)
A Universe of Forces: Energetics in Early Twentieth-Century Theory and Literature
Monograph. A Universe of Forces examines how authors and theorists outside of the sciences were contending with questions about nature and social life in relation to energetic theory during the first decades of the twentieth century. (Manuscript complete, under revision)
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"The Nation As Energy: Imagining Society as Energy Intensity"
American Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, Sept 2020 Special Issue: “Energy Pasts and Futures in American Studies” Johns Hopkins University Press https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42971/print |
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Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
Routledge, 2020 Edited Collection. Co-written and co-edited with Jeff Diamanti and Marija Cetinic https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Realism-The-Aesthetics-of-Weather-and-Atmosphere-in-the-Anthropocene/Badia-Cetinic-Diamanti/p/book/9781138370043 |
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Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, Spring-Fall 2020 Special Issue. Co-written and co-edited with Jeff Diamanti and Marija Cetinic University of Nebraska Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/resilience.7.issue-2-3 |
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Review: Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel, Adeline Johns-Putra, Cambridge University Press
Studies in the Novel, Vol. 52, No. 1, Spring 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press |
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"Absolute Indeterminacy: Karel Čapek’s Pragmatist Science Fiction”
Open Library of the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 1, Sep 2019 Special Issue: “Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy” https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/special/powering-the-future-energy-resources-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy/ |
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“’A Transcendentalism in Mechanics’: Henry David Thoreau’s Critique of a Free Energy Utopia”
Nineteenth-Century Energies: Literature, Technology, Culture Routledge, 2018 Ed. Lynn Voskuil https://www.routledge.com/Nineteenth-Century-Energies-Literature-Technology-Culture/Voskuil/p/book/9780367023638 |
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"Surveillance"
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment Fordham University Press, 2017 Ed. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823273911/fueling-culture/ |
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"Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Culture as Force and Energy"
Cultural Studies, Vol. 30, No. 6, Dec 2016 Taylor & Francis https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/30/6 |
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“‘A Transcendentalism in Mechanics’: Henry David Thoreau’s Critique of a Free Energy Utopia”
Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 36, No. 5, Dec 2014 Special Issue: "Nineteenth-Century Energies" Taylor & Francis https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gncc20/36/5?nav=tocList |
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After Oil
West Virginia University Press, 2016 Co-written and co-edited with Imre Szeman and the Petrocultures Research Collective https://wvupressonline.com/node/645 |