Description
1)Read Love in the Anthropocene (Chapter 2 “Carbon” from page 59) (Attached below)
2Read Shelley Streeby (Attached below)
3) Order instructions: offer a formal critique of the story “Carbon”. In addition to attending to the text’s formal literary elements, you are to consider the following: how does the removal and re-use of carbon (which is being discussed here) illustrate a form of utopian geo-engineering (see Streeby)?
That is, how does the economic commitment to carbon make clear a cultural commitment to something called “petroculture”?
How are we to understand the relationship between the removal of local communities and the investment projects being touted as environmentally progressive?