Fossil fuels don't simply impact our ability to commute to and from
work. They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and
our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and
healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature
that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the
older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy.
Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, ecology,
politics, journalism, and art history to chart the course by which
prehistoric carbon calories entered into the American economy and
body. It reveals how fossil fuels remade our ways of being,
knowing, and sensing in the world while examining how different
classes, races, sexes, and conditions learned to embrace and
navigate the material manifestations and cultural potential of
these new prehistoric carbons. The ecological roots of modern
America are introduced in the first half of the book where the
author shows how fossil fuels revolutionized the nation's material
wealth and carrying capacity. The book then demonstrates how this
eager embrace of fossil fuels went hand in hand with both a
deliberate and an unconscious suppression of that dependency across
social, spatial, symbolic, an psychic domains. In the works of
Eugene O'Neill, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Stephen
Crane, the author reveals how Americans' material dependencies on
prehistoric carbon were systematically buried within modernist
narratives of progress, consumption, and unbridled growth; while in
films like Charlie Chaplin''s Modern Times and George Steven's
Giant he uncovers cinematic expressions of our own deep-seated
anxieties about living in a dizzying new world wrought by fossil
fuels. Any discussion of fossil fuels must go beyond energy policy
and technology. In Carbon Nation, Bob Johnson reminds us that what
we take to be natural in the modern world is, in fact, historical,
and that our history and culture arise from this relatively recent
embrace of the coal mine, the stoke hole, and the oil derrick.
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