Infrastructure, Energy, Environment

“Conditions of environmental and relational duress demand a politics that is something more than just a good argument, better representation, lively debate, and an agreement to disagree. They demand a politics oriented toward unmaking material infrastructures of inequality, exploitation, and environmental destruction, and replacing them with infrastructures that make possible more just, caring, and environmentally responsible ways of living.” 

Infrastructure & politics

Sensing Churchill. Journal of Environmental Media, Volume 5, April 2024, Special lssue on Sensing Elementality, Eds. Max Ritts, Nicholas R. Silcox and Rafico Ruiz.

Infrastructure and the Form of Politics. Canadian Journal of Communication. 46 (2) 2021. Special Issue on Materials and Media of Infrastructure, Eds. Aleksandra Kaminska & Rafico Ruiz.

Infrastructure. “Marx from the Margins: A Collective Project, from A to Z” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, Issue 2, 2018.

We shall not be moved: on the politics of immobility. Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries. Eds. Jan Hadlaw, Thom Swiss and Andrew Herman. Routledge. 2014.

Dialogue with Darin Barney. Communication+1. March 2014

Living up to the Code: Engineering as Political Judgment. International Journal of Engineering Education 24:2. February 2008 (with Patrick Little and Richard Hink)

Review of Resource Radicals: From Petro‐Nationalism to Post‐ Extractivism in Ecuador by Thea Riofrancos (Duke 2020) in Constellations. 03 June 2023

Energy & environments

Anti-capitalist energy futures. Pretty Heady Stuff. Hosted by Scott Stoneman. With Jesse Goldstein & Hannah Tollefson. 9 April 2024

Some Kind of Movement: Communication and Energy. Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities. Eds. Graeme Macdonald and Janet Stewart. Routledge. Forthcoming 2025

Autonomy. Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment. Eds. Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szeman. West Virginia University Press. Forthcoming 2025

Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. After Oil Collective. Co-edited with Ayesha Vemuri. Univ. of Minnesota Press: 2022. 

Solarity. South Atlantic Quarterly 120.1. January 2021. Special issue co-edited with Imre Szeman. Intro.

Solarity. Cultures of Energy Podcast. Center for Environmental Humanities, Rice University. September 27, 2018.

How to respond to climate change. Medium. 27 June 2019.

A Handsome Condition: Climate Change and the Problem of Communication. Colloquium on Religion and Climate Change, McGill Centre for Research on Religion. 20 September 2019.

After Oil. Petrocultures Research Group. West Virginia University Press. 2016

Energysheds. Energy Humanities News. 8 Dec. 2022

More Liquid than Liquid: Solid-Phase Bitumen and its Forms. Grey Room. Vol. 77, Fall 2019. Co-authored with Hannah Tollefson.

Beyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure and Sabotage. Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond. Eds. Imre Szeman & Jeff Diamanti. West Virginia Univ. Press. 2019.

Who we are and what we do: Canada as a pipeline nation. Petrocultures: Oil, Energy and Culture. Eds. I. Szeman, D. Harvey and S. Wilson. McGill-Queens Univ. Press. 2017.

Pipelines. Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. Eds. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger. Fordham University Press. 2017.

A pipeline is a hole. Lines and Nodes: Media, Infrastructure and Aesthetics. NYU Dept. of Media, Culture & Communication. September 2014.

The political subject of extraction. Natural Powers: Towards a New Philosophy of Environment. 9th Exhibition of Academic Research Achievements. European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. November 2015

Getting it right: Canadian Conservatives and the “war on science.” Canadian Journal of Communication. 41:1 Spring 2016 (co-authored with Elyse Amend).

Infrastructure & rurality

Media Rurality. Heliotrope. Special issue co-edited with Patrick Brodie. Winter 2023.

Autonomous agriculture? Heliotrope. Special issue on Media Rurality. Eds. Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney. February 2023

Telling Their Stories: Ideology and the Subject of Prairie Agriculture. Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society. Ed. David Laycock. UBC Press. 2019. Co-authored with Katherine Strand.

To hear the whistle blow: technology and politics on the Battle River branchline. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 25. Spring 2011.

That’s no way to run a railroad.” The Battle River branchline and the politics of technology in rural Alberta. Social Transformation in Rural Canada. John Parkins & Maureen Reed, (eds.) UBC Press. 2012.

I guess you had to be there: The making of ‘Battle River Railroad - The  Movie.’ Canadian Journal of Communication. 37:1. Spring 2012.