Volume 26, Number 2, January 2016

Special Issue: Resource Aesthetics
Guest Editors: Brent Ryan Bellamy, Michael O’Driscoll, and Mark Simpson

Introduction: Toward a Theory of Resource Aesthetics

Brent Ryan Bellamy, Michael O’Driscoll, and Mark Simpson

Works

The Biocapital of Living – and Art of Dying – After Fukushima

Nicole Shukin

Resource Systems, the Paradigm of Zero-Waste, and the Desire for Sustenance

Amanda Boetzkes

The Materiality of the Digital: Petro-Enlightenment and the Aesthetics of Invisibility

Carolyn Elerding

Energyscapes, Architecture, and the Expanded Field of Postindustrial Philosophy

Jeff M. Diamanti

The Programmable Image of Capital: M-I-C-I′-M′ and the World Computer

Jonathan Beller

When Energy is the Focus: Methodology, Politics, Pedagogy

A Conversation with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Stephanie LeMenager, and Imre Szeman

Afterword: Improvement and Overburden

Jennifer Wenzel

Reviews

A Parrot Might Talk Back. A review of Vinciane Despret, What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

Ellie Anderson

A Compelling Ontology of Wildness for Conservation Ecology. A review of Jamie Lorimer, Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature.

Rick Elmore

Informal Observations. A review of David Farrell Krell, Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida’s Final Seminar, “The Beast and the Sovereign.”

David Wills