Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Third-party Material
Introduction: To the Terminal!
	Reading across climate and capital
Part One From Coal Capital to Petroculture
	1 Our Future is Still the Future of 1973: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra
		Energy futures in the present tense
		“Shooting the rapids” and the metaphor of oil
		Energy and climate
	2 The Cultural Work of Architecture: Fixed and Social Capital at Fiat
		Fordism and Futurism, or, “architecture or revolution”
		Social capital and its organic composition
	3 Energyscapes, Architecture, and the Expanded Field of Postindustrial Philosophy
		Energyscapes and the infrastructures of accumulation
		Postindustrial landscapes
		Landscape infrastructures
		Philosophy and the problem of energy
Part Two From the Postindustrial Environment to the Concerns of Climate
	4 Elemental Ethnography Between Hydrocarbons and Hydrology: Thinking with Greenland’s Moraine
		Centering the end(s) of the earth
		Thinking with the moraine
		The cost of current
	5 Contrapuntal Ice
		Sila
		Mixed signals
		The Dead Glacier
		Qivittoq: mediating contrapuntal ecology
		The ends of the terminal: enjambment as reciprocity
	6 Heliotropism at the Terminal Beach of Critique
		Leviathan ’s mood
		Adorno’s tan lines and the scene of modern boredom
		Sunburn
		The weather as social form
	Conclusion: “Hail Horrors”
Notes
References
Index
Plates