Energy sources shape, rather than simply serve, our social and cultural imaginaries. Recognizing this poses a different set of challenges for how we might contend with our current planetary emergency.
Jeffrey Insko
Jeffrey Insko is professor of English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and the author of History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing (Oxford University Press, 2018). He is currently completing a book titled “Untimely Infrastructure: The 2010 Marshall, Michigan, Oil Spill in the Human Epoch.” 