Cameron Hu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cameron Hu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cameron |
| FAMILY NAME | Hu |
| SIGNATURE | HU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3039-8550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epistemania! (On the Very Idea of “Knowledge Production”)
This is an essay about the way that moderns—among them, anthropologists—live with the concept of knowledge. I ask if certain familiar critical conventions express the compulsions of epistemania, an enthrallment to knowledge as unseeing as the ignorance it would dispel. In particular, I raise questions about the ubiquitous yet underscrutinized language of “knowledge production.”
In the Energy Library
Fracking and Historicizing: On Deepened Time in West Texas
This article draws on ethnographic research in the oil fields of West Texas to reflect on the imperial-modern compulsion to historicize-to explicate more and more of the world in terms of contingent, indeterminate historical process. A century ago, petroleum drilling turned West Texas into a vast extractive zone and simultaneously historicized the desert plain as a former reef. Today, I show, fracking moves to shape and accelerate the region's ge…
Postcolonial technoscience revisited
What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and technology studies (STS) is postcolonial when it elucidates the hybridity, heterogeneity, and indeterminacy of global technoscientific formations, and does so to falsify colonial fantasies of hegemony expressed in imperious conceptual generalities and sovereign universalisms. Revisiting Warwick…
A jungle that is continually encroaching: The time of disaster management
This essay examines the temporal logics of contemporary disaster management. I discuss episodes from the expansion of the global disaster management complex-in the United States after WWII, and in Indonesia after the New Order-to characterize the form of futurity established through the technocratic administration of systematically-envisioned catastrophe. Disaster management projects a shallow future whose indeterminacy does not stimulate aspirat…
A jungle that is continually encroaching: The time of disaster management
This essay examines the temporal logics of contemporary disaster management. I discuss episodes from the expansion of the global disaster management complex-in the United States after WWII, and in Indonesia after the New Order-to characterize the form of futurity established through the technocratic administration of systematically-envisioned catastrophe. Disaster management projects a shallow future whose indeterminacy does not stimulate aspirat…
Fracking and Historicizing: On Deepened Time in West Texas
This article draws on ethnographic research in the oil fields of West Texas to reflect on the imperial-modern compulsion to historicize-to explicate more and more of the world in terms of contingent, indeterminate historical process. A century ago, petroleum drilling turned West Texas into a vast extractive zone and simultaneously historicized the desert plain as a former reef. Today, I show, fracking moves to shape and accelerate the region's ge…
Postcolonial technoscience revisited
What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and technology studies (STS) is postcolonial when it elucidates the hybridity, heterogeneity, and indeterminacy of global technoscientific formations, and does so to falsify colonial fantasies of hegemony expressed in imperious conceptual generalities and sovereign universalisms. Revisiting Warwick…
A jungle that is continually encroaching: The time of disaster management
This essay examines the temporal logics of contemporary disaster management. I discuss episodes from the expansion of the global disaster management complex-in the United States after WWII, and in Indonesia after the New Order-to characterize the form of futurity established through the technocratic administration of systematically-envisioned catastrophe. Disaster management projects a shallow future whose indeterminacy does not stimulate aspirat…
Postcolonial technoscience revisited
What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and technology studies (STS) is postcolonial when it elucidates the hybridity, heterogeneity, and indeterminacy of global technoscientific formations, and does so to falsify colonial fantasies of hegemony expressed in imperious conceptual generalities and sovereign universalisms. Revisiting Warwick…
Fracking and Historicizing: On Deepened Time in West Texas
This article draws on ethnographic research in the oil fields of West Texas to reflect on the imperial-modern compulsion to historicize-to explicate more and more of the world in terms of contingent, indeterminate historical process. A century ago, petroleum drilling turned West Texas into a vast extractive zone and simultaneously historicized the desert plain as a former reef. Today, I show, fracking moves to shape and accelerate the region's ge…
Epistemania! (On the Very Idea of “Knowledge Production”)
This is an essay about the way that moderns—among them, anthropologists—live with the concept of knowledge. I ask if certain familiar critical conventions express the compulsions of epistemania, an enthrallment to knowledge as unseeing as the ignorance it would dispel. In particular, I raise questions about the ubiquitous yet underscrutinized language of “knowledge production.”
In the Energy Library
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Indeterminacy (philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works)