Imre Szeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 616160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imre Szeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imre |
| FAMILY NAME | Szeman |
| SIGNATURE | SZEMAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2957-5049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fossil Capital at ten: Andreas Malm on capitalism, energy, and resistance
With the publication of Fossil Capital in 2016, Andreas Malm reshaped how scholars understand the relationship between capitalism and fossil fuels. Energy humanities scholars Caleb Wellum and Imre Szeman interviewed Malm in November 2024 about the arguments and impact of Fossil Capital, the development of his thought in several subsequent books, and the shifting landscape of climate politics. At a time when the stakes of climate politics have nev…
“Energy Humanities and American History”
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Preface to “Energy Matters”
This preface offers an overview of the guiding themes of the special section. It notes the focus on a critical appraisal of dominant narratives designed to render acceptable contemporary extraction practices in Latin America and their effects on local communities and the environment. Together the essays identify a need to rethink extraction and its implications and advocate for more equitable and environmentally conscious approaches to resource e…
Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture
Carbon Democracy at ten: An interview with Timothy Mitchell
With the publication of Carbon Democracy, Timothy Mitchell made a major contribution to the political study of energy resources that helped launch an exciting era of energy studies. Energy humanities scholars Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum interviewed Mitchell in 2021 about the genesis, arguments, and legacies of Carbon Democracy. This wide-ranging conversation explores how the political context of the early 2000s informed the book, how the book ha…
A Crisis Discipline? The Task of the Environmental Humanities to Come (Results of a Personal Study)
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism
The term ‘extractivism' has quickly become the name for every process and practice through which value is generated for capitalism. Given this conceptual ubiquity, what analytic function does this term actually serve? This Afterword to a special issue on Extractivism reflects upon possible reasons why scholars in the humanities have recently become interested in resource extraction, among which is the desire for one's scholarly work to respond to…
Impasse Time
Although energy transition-a shift from dirty energy to cleaner, renewable energy-has become a mantra for an effective way of addressing climate change, energy impasse-the incapacity of any transition whatsoever-is actually the defining condition of our age. This essay contributes to a fuller understanding of energy transition, climate change, and the promise of renewable energy by examining the specific temporality of energy impasse. Rather than…
Communicating Power: Energy, Canada, and the Field(s) of Communication
Energy Humanities: An Anthology
Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition
On the politics of extraction
Colonialism and capitalism are based on extracting and assimilating. My land is seen as a resource. My relatives in the plant and animal worlds are seen as resources. My culture and knowledge is a
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
Conjectures on world energy literature: Or, what is petroculture
How might one begin to use energy as a critical component of cultural and literary analysis, especially within world-literary studies? Does making a link between a specific energy system and a previously defined literary period, movement or form open up a new way of analysing corresponding literary texts? This article argues that one of the most important reasons for reading energy into literature and, indeed, into the world-literary system is th…
Introduction: Pipeline Politics
When Energy is the Focus: Methodology, Politics, and Pedagogy
When Energy is the Focus: Methodology, Politics, and Pedagogy A Conversation with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Stephanie LeMenager, and Imre Szeman Brent Ryan Bellamy (bio), Stephanie LeMenager (bio), and Imre Szeman (bio) “The world itself writes oil, you and I write it.” —Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil I sat down with Stephanie LeMenager and Imre Szeman to talk about “Resource Aesthetics,” the topic of this special issue of Postmodern Culture, in Vanco…
Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense
Contemporary Marxist theory: A reader
New Habitat
Conclusion: On Energopolitics
Conclusion: On Energopolitics Imre Szeman Why add energy to biopolitics? What conceptual openings does such a concatenation or expansion produce, both in how we think about energy and in the way we understand contemporary modes and models of power? And if there are conceptual openings produced in this encounter, is there anything that, in the process, is also confused or closed down? Taken together, the articles in this special collection raise t…
Entre les empires: Les cultural studies canadiennes
Cet article est le texte d’une conférence donnée sur la préparation de la première anthologie canadienne de cultural studies (2009). La parution d’un tel ouvrage soulève des questions importantes à propos de l’idée de tradition intellectuelle et de la prégnance des imaginaires de la nation et du national dans notre compréhension de la culture. Cette conférence, comme le livre qu’elle présente, fait état des ambivalences qui caractérisent générale…
After Globalization
"In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future, capitalism, nation, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that sustain this time-limit, After Globalization examines four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florid…
What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism
The term ‘extractivism' has quickly become the name for every process and practice through which value is generated for capitalism. Given this conceptual ubiquity, what analytic function does this term actually serve? This Afterword to a special issue on Extractivism reflects upon possible reasons why scholars in the humanities have recently become interested in resource extraction, among which is the desire for one's scholarly work to respond to…
System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster
Research Article| October 01 2007 System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Imre Szeman Imre Szeman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 805–823. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-047 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite …
Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense
Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization
Forms such as the fabliau, Mennipean satire, and autobiography provide evidence of cultural migrations dating as far back as the medieval period; literature was global, then, before it was ever national.3 And as Stephen Greenblatt points out, ''English literature was always an unsteady amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other voices of the vanquished, along with the voices of the dominant English regions, and the English language its…
Conjectures on world energy literature: Or, what is petroculture
How might one begin to use energy as a critical component of cultural and literary analysis, especially within world-literary studies? Does making a link between a specific energy system and a previously defined literary period, movement or form open up a new way of analysing corresponding literary texts? This article argues that one of the most important reasons for reading energy into literature and, indeed, into the world-literary system is th…
Who's Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Conclusion: On Energopolitics
Conclusion: On Energopolitics Imre Szeman Why add energy to biopolitics? What conceptual openings does such a concatenation or expansion produce, both in how we think about energy and in the way we understand contemporary modes and models of power? And if there are conceptual openings produced in this encounter, is there anything that, in the process, is also confused or closed down? Taken together, the articles in this special collection raise t…
Culture and Globalization, or, The Humanities in Ruins
AS THE RANGE AND NUMBER OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES EXPLORING CULTURE IN the era of globalization should indicate, the concept of culture has undergone a significant change at the end of the twentieth and in the early twenty-first centuries—a shift that has necessitated new ways of thinking and writing about culture. 1 This is not only, or even primarily, due to the impact on culture of those forces now inextricably associated with globalization: the u…
What Is the Multitude: Questions for Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman continue their conversation with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (See ‘The Global Coliseum: On Empire’ in Cultural Studies, 16.2, (March 2002), p. 177–192). In this new interview they press the authors of Empire and Multitude on questions that have arisen both out of their own involvement with the theoretical issues generated by Empire and from new areas opened up by Multitude. Why is the multitude not a class? How…
The Global Coliseum: On Empire
In this interview with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Brown and Szeman press the authors of Empire on a number of questions which have arisen both out of their own use of Empire 's theoretical and political framework and, given Empire 's immense popularity both within the academy and outside it, out of more widespread controversies surrounding the book. What is the relationship between the theory of Empire and the new American Empire which some…
Impasse Time
Although energy transition-a shift from dirty energy to cleaner, renewable energy-has become a mantra for an effective way of addressing climate change, energy impasse-the incapacity of any transition whatsoever-is actually the defining condition of our age. This essay contributes to a fuller understanding of energy transition, climate change, and the promise of renewable energy by examining the specific temporality of energy impasse. Rather than…
Ghostly matters: On derrida'sspecters
2000). Ghostly matters: On derrida's specters. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 104-116
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
The Big Picture: On the Politics of Contemporary Photography
This article investigates the politics of contemporary art photography, specifically the work of those photographers who produce characteristically large images (eg, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall). In a context in which the politics of the aesthetic has been repeatedly challenged, these photographers carve out a new political space by employing both an older notion of the aesthetic and newer ideas of activist art beyond aesthetics. …
Introduction: Learning to Learn from Seattle
The road to Kananaskis Village curves up from Highway 40 in a long twisting arc
Remote Sensing: An Interview with Ursula Biemann
Even more so than that first significant moment of the video age-the brutal footage of the Los Angeles Police Department's attack on the prostrate body of Rodney King-the antiglobalization protests have marked the first sustained use of new digital technologies (audio and visual) to document the contemporary uses of power and the resistances to it
Subterranean Passages of Thought: Empire's Inserts
Scattered throughout Hardt and Negri's Empire are a number of short sections whose manifesto-like energy contrasts with the relatively expository style of the main text. These passages, modeled after the scholie of Spinoza's Ethics, are meant to suggest new ways of thinking about material already presented, to highlight the affective aspect of the material, and to point to hidden connections among different discursive elements. Several of these w…
Ghostly matters: On derrida'sspecters
2000). Ghostly matters: On derrida's specters. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 104-116
Plundering the Empire: Globalization, Mediation, and Cultural Studies
Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture
Chapter 1 Introduction: Fieldwork in Culture Chapter 2 Bourdieu's Refusal Chapter 3 Resistance, Recuperation, and Reflexivity: The Limits of a Paradigm Chapter 4 Anglicizing Bourdieu Chapter 5 Bourdieu and Common Sense Chapter 6 Value and Capital in Bourdieu and Marx Chapter 7 Cultural Studies Bourdieu's Way: Women, Leadership, and Feminist Theory Chapter 8 Habitus Revisited, Notes and Queries from the Field Chapter 9 Pierre Bourdieu's Fields of …
Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization
Forms such as the fabliau, Mennipean satire, and autobiography provide evidence of cultural migrations dating as far back as the medieval period; literature was global, then, before it was ever national.3 And as Stephen Greenblatt points out, ''English literature was always an unsteady amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other voices of the vanquished, along with the voices of the dominant English regions, and the English language its…
Who's Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Introduction: Learning to Learn from Seattle
The road to Kananaskis Village curves up from Highway 40 in a long twisting arc
Remote Sensing: An Interview with Ursula Biemann
Even more so than that first significant moment of the video age-the brutal footage of the Los Angeles Police Department's attack on the prostrate body of Rodney King-the antiglobalization protests have marked the first sustained use of new digital technologies (audio and visual) to document the contemporary uses of power and the resistances to it
Subterranean Passages of Thought: Empire's Inserts
Scattered throughout Hardt and Negri's Empire are a number of short sections whose manifesto-like energy contrasts with the relatively expository style of the main text. These passages, modeled after the scholie of Spinoza's Ethics, are meant to suggest new ways of thinking about material already presented, to highlight the affective aspect of the material, and to point to hidden connections among different discursive elements. Several of these w…
The Global Coliseum: On Empire
In this interview with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Brown and Szeman press the authors of Empire on a number of questions which have arisen both out of their own use of Empire 's theoretical and political framework and, given Empire 's immense popularity both within the academy and outside it, out of more widespread controversies surrounding the book. What is the relationship between the theory of Empire and the new American Empire which some…
Culture and Globalization, or, The Humanities in Ruins
AS THE RANGE AND NUMBER OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES EXPLORING CULTURE IN the era of globalization should indicate, the concept of culture has undergone a significant change at the end of the twentieth and in the early twenty-first centuries—a shift that has necessitated new ways of thinking and writing about culture. 1 This is not only, or even primarily, due to the impact on culture of those forces now inextricably associated with globalization: the u…
Future Politics: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
What Is the Multitude: Questions for Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman continue their conversation with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (See ‘The Global Coliseum: On Empire’ in Cultural Studies, 16.2, (March 2002), p. 177–192). In this new interview they press the authors of Empire and Multitude on questions that have arisen both out of their own involvement with the theoretical issues generated by Empire and from new areas opened up by Multitude. Why is the multitude not a class? How…
Cultural Studies and the Transnational
Between Utopia and Disillusionment: A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe
Book Review| January 01 2006 Between Utopia and Disillusionment: A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe Between Utopia and Disillusionment: A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern EuropeVogt, Henri Imre Szeman Imre Szeman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (2): 383–387. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718834 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
O que é a Multidão? Questões para Michael Hardt e Antonio Negri
Multidão, livro mais recente de Michael Hardt e Antonio Negri, é uma tentativa de nomear e compreender as condições que envolvem a dinâmica social do século xxi. Na entrevista a seguir, Hardt e Negri discorrem sobre as possibilidades de constituição da multidão como agente político, discutem os fundamentos do livro e defendem conceitos que consideram determinantes para a compreensão dos novos tempos, tais como biopolítica e biopoder
Introduction: New Cultural Spaces: Cultural Studies in Canada Today
This special issue of The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies highlights work being done in cultural studies today by scholars located in Canadian universities. There is now a long tra
System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster
Research Article| October 01 2007 System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Imre Szeman Imre Szeman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 805–823. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-047 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite …
The Big Picture: On the Politics of Contemporary Photography
This article investigates the politics of contemporary art photography, specifically the work of those photographers who produce characteristically large images (eg, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall). In a context in which the politics of the aesthetic has been repeatedly challenged, these photographers carve out a new political space by employing both an older notion of the aesthetic and newer ideas of activist art beyond aesthetics. …
Neoliberals Dressed in Black; or, the Traffic in Creativity
Neoliberals Dressed in Black; or, the Traffic in Creativity1 Imre Szeman (bio) In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, …
Entre les empires: Les cultural studies canadiennes
Cet article est le texte d’une conférence donnée sur la préparation de la première anthologie canadienne de cultural studies (2009). La parution d’un tel ouvrage soulève des questions importantes à propos de l’idée de tradition intellectuelle et de la prégnance des imaginaires de la nation et du national dans notre compréhension de la culture. Cette conférence, comme le livre qu’elle présente, fait état des ambivalences qui caractérisent générale…
After Globalization
"In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future, capitalism, nation, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that sustain this time-limit, After Globalization examines four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florid…
Contemporary Marxist theory: A reader
New Habitat
Conclusion: On Energopolitics
Conclusion: On Energopolitics Imre Szeman Why add energy to biopolitics? What conceptual openings does such a concatenation or expansion produce, both in how we think about energy and in the way we understand contemporary modes and models of power? And if there are conceptual openings produced in this encounter, is there anything that, in the process, is also confused or closed down? Taken together, the articles in this special collection raise t…
Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense
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