Speculative Geologies: Project Mohole and Anthropocene Narratives in the Work of Reza Negarestani and Karen Tei Yamashita

WORKS CITED

1. 1. Azkoyen, Janko

   . “Kola Superdeep Borehole.” Atlas Obscura. www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole. Accessed 17 June 2020.
2. 1. Barad, Karen

   . Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.
3. 1. Bascom, Willard

   . “Letters.” Science, vol. 143, 20 Mar. 1964, pp. 1275–76.

   OpenUrlFREE Full Text
4. 1. Bascom, Willard

   . “The Mohole,” Scientific American, vol. 200, no. 4, 1959, pp. 41–49.

   OpenUrlGeoRef
5. 1. Carson, Rachel

   . “Of Man and the Stream of Time.” 1962. Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment, edited by Sandra Steingraber, Library of America, 2018, pp. 421–27.
6. 1. Chakrabarty, Dipesh

   . “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 2, 2009, pp. 197–222.

   OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
7. 1. Colebrook, Claire

   . “The Context of Humanism.” New Literary History, vol. 42, no. 4, 2011, pp. 701–18.

   OpenUrlCrossRef
8. 1. Colebrook, Claire

   . Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1. Open Humanities Press, 2014.
9. 1. Colebrook, Claire

   . “What Is the Anthropo-Political?” Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, edited by Tom Cohen et al. Open Humanities Press, 2016, pp. 81–125.
10. 1. Crutzen, Paul

    . “Geology of Mankind.” Nature, vol. 415, 2002, p. 23.

    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
11. “Deepwater Horizon Drills World’s Deepest Oil and Gas Well.” Beacon: Transocean in the Spotlight, no. 3, Fall 2009. www.beaconmag.com/deepwaterhorizon.html. Accessed 7 Aug. 2020.
12. 1. Deleuze, Gilles, and
    2. Félix Guattari

    . A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 1980. Translated by Brian Massumi, U of Minnesota P, 2011.
13. 1. DeLillo, Don

    . “Human Moments in World War III.” 1983. American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Plume, 1996, pp. 325–38.
14. 1. DeLillo, Don

    . Ratner’s Star. 1976. Vintage, 1989.
15. 1. Doherty, Melanie

    . “Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia.” Oil Culture, edited by Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, U of Minnesota P, 2014, pp. 366–83.
16. 1. Flaxman, Gregory

    . Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy. U of Minnesota P, 2012.
17. 1. Frankel, Henry

    . “Plate Tectonics.” The Cambridge History of Science, edited by Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone, Cambridge UP, 2009, pp. 385–94.
18. 1. Ghosh, Amitav

    . “Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel.” Energy Humanities: An Anthology, edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer, Johns Hopkins UP, 2017, pp. 431–39.
19. 1. Graham, Stephen

    . Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers. Verso, 2016.
20. 1. Greenberg, D. S.

    “Mohole: The Project That Went Awry (II).” Science, vol. 143, no. 3603, 1964, pp. 223–27.

    OpenUrlFREE Full Text
21. 1. Gould, Stephen Jay

    . Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geologic Time. Harvard UP, 1987.
22. 1. Hedberg, Hollis

    . “Letters.” Science, vol. 143, 20 Mar. 1964, pp. 1274–75.

    OpenUrlFREE Full Text
23. 1. Hedberg, Hollis

    . “Petroleum and Progress in Geology.” Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 127, 1971, pp. 3–16.

    OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text
24. 1. Heise, Ursula K.

    Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species. U of Chicago P, 2016.
25. 1. Heise, Ursula K.

    Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford UP, 2008.
26. 1. Hess, H. H.

    “The AMSOC Hole to the Earth’s Mantle.” 1959. Study of the Earth: Readings in Geological Science, edited by J. F. White, Prentice-Hall, 1962, pp. 79–88.
27. 1. Hsü, Kenneth Jinghwa

    . Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science. Princeton UP, 2014.
28. 1. Huber, Matthew T.

    Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. U of Minnesota P, 2013.
29. 1. Lippard, Lucy R.

    Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. New Press, 2014.
30. 1. Loughry, Treasa de

    . “Petromodernity, Petro-finance and Plastic in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 3, 2017, pp. 329–41.

    OpenUrl
31. 1. MacKay, Robin

    . “A Brief History of Geotrauma.” Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, edited by Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker, punctum, 2012, pp. 1–37.
32. 1. Malm, Andreas

    . Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso, 2016.
33. 1. Marshall, Kate

    . “Cyclonopedia as Novel (a Meditation on Complicity as Inauthenticity).” Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, edited by Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker, punctum, 2012, pp. 147–57.
34. 1. Masco, Joseph

    . “The Age of (a) Man.” Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett, U of Chicago P, 2018, pp. 40–49.
35. 1. McGurl, Mark

    . “The New Cultural Geology.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 57, nos. 3–4, 2011, pp. 380–90.

    OpenUrlFREE Full Text
36. 1. Mitchell, Timothy

    . Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Verso, 2011.
37. 1. Moi, Toril

    . “‘Nothing Is Hidden’: From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein on Critique.” Critique and Postcritique, edited by Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski, Duke UP, pp. 31–49.
38. 1. Morton, Timothy

    . Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. Columbia UP, 2016.
39. 1. Negarestani, Reza

    . Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. re.press, 2008.
40. 1. Nixon, Rob

    . “The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea.” Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett, U of Chicago P, 2018, pp. 1–18.
41. 1. Nixon, Rob

    . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.
42. 1. Oldham, R. D.

    “Essays on Speculative Geology: 1.—On Homotaxis and Contemporaneity.” Geological Magazine, vol. 3, no. 7, 1886, pp. 293–300.

    OpenUrl
43. 1. Oldham, R. D.

    “Essays on Speculative Geology: 2.—Probable Changes of Latitude.” Geological Magazine, vol. 3, no. 7, 1886, pp. 300–8.

    OpenUrl
44. 1. Parikka, Jussi

    . A Geology of Media. U of Minnesota P, 2015.
45. 1. Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

    Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Duke UP, 2016.
46. 1. Pynchon, Thomas

    . Gravity’s Rainbow. 1973. Penguin, 2006.
47. 1. Revelle, Roger, et al

    . Restoring the Quality of Our Environment: Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Science Advisory Committee. The White House, 1965.
48. 1. Rose, Andrew

    . “Insurgency and Distributed Agency in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 125–44.

    OpenUrl
49. 1. Smithson, Robert

    . “Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction.” 1970. Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, edited by Jack Flam, U of California P, 1996, pp. 75–77.
50. 1. Song, Min Hyoung

    . “Becoming Planetary.” American Literary History, vol. 23, no. 3, 2011, pp. 555–73.

    OpenUrlCrossRef
51. 1. Steinbeck, John

    . “High Drama of Bold Thrust Through Ocean Floor: Earth’s Second Layer Is Tapped in Prelude to Mohole.” Life, 14 Apr. 1961, pp. 111–22.
52. 1. Swan, Heather

    . “What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita.” Edge Effects, Center for Culture, History, and Environment, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 21 May 2019, edgeeffects.net/karen-tei-yamashita/.
53. 1. Thacker, Eugene

    . In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy, Vol. 1. Zero Books, 2011.
54. 1. von Storch, Hans, and
    2. Klaus Hasselmann

    . Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography: A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk. Springer, 2010.
55. 1. Wakefield, Stephanie

    . Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space. Open Humanities Press, 2020.
56. 1. Walters, Hugh

    . The Mohole Menace. Criterion, 1968.
57. 1. Yamashita, Karen Tei

    . Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. 1990. Coffee House Press, 2017.
58. 1. Zalasiewicz, Jan, et al

    . “The Geological Cycle of Plastics and Their Use as a Stratigraphic Indicator of the Anthropocene.” Anthropocene, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 4–17.

    OpenUrlCrossRef