Reuben Martens
Biographic Data
| ID | 838272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuben Martens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuben |
| FAMILY NAME | Martens |
| SIGNATURE | MARTENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8274-7201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Petrophonics
Drawing from sound studies, energy humanities, and anthropology, this essay identifies a critical gap in the academic recognition of "petrophonics"-sonic and vibrational byproducts of fossil fuel dependency that pervade contemporary soundscapes-within sound and soundscape studies as well as the environmental and energy humanities, where such phenomena are often dismissed as "white noise" or background ambience. Through theoretical analysis and em…
Infrastructural Prolepsis: Contemporary American Literature and the Future Anterior
status: Published
Elizabeth Ezra (2017) The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Elizabeth Ezra
Petromelancholia and the Energopolitical Violence of Settler Colonialism in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow
By means of a close reading of Waubgeshig Rice’s novel "Moon of the Crusted Snow" (2018), this article explores how the energopolitics of settler colonialism, in the wake of fossil fuel extraction and the implementation of its concurrent infrastructures, violently disrupts Indigenous communities and forces them into experiencing petromelancholia—a subconscious life-depending need for fossil fuels. In doing so, the article aims to highlight the We…
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Elizabeth Ezra (2017) The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Elizabeth Ezra
Petromelancholia and the Energopolitical Violence of Settler Colonialism in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow
By means of a close reading of Waubgeshig Rice’s novel "Moon of the Crusted Snow" (2018), this article explores how the energopolitics of settler colonialism, in the wake of fossil fuel extraction and the implementation of its concurrent infrastructures, violently disrupts Indigenous communities and forces them into experiencing petromelancholia—a subconscious life-depending need for fossil fuels. In doing so, the article aims to highlight the We…
Infrastructural Prolepsis: Contemporary American Literature and the Future Anterior
status: Published
Petrophonics
Drawing from sound studies, energy humanities, and anthropology, this essay identifies a critical gap in the academic recognition of "petrophonics"-sonic and vibrational byproducts of fossil fuel dependency that pervade contemporary soundscapes-within sound and soundscape studies as well as the environmental and energy humanities, where such phenomena are often dismissed as "white noise" or background ambience. Through theoretical analysis and em…
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropocene (1 works) · Art history (1 works)