{"id":5105,"date":"2023-07-02T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2023-07-02T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:30:24","slug":"shameless-summer-reading-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2023\/07\/02\/shameless-summer-reading-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"(Shameless) Summer Reading Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t ordinarily do this sort of thing here at the blog, so I’ll beg forgiveness for a little self-promotion. But if you’re looking for a good beach read for the summer, might I recommend Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick<\/em>? I’ve just edited a brand new edition and it’s out now from W.W. Norton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What, you might ask, does Moby-Dick<\/em> have to do with the matters we usually discuss around here? Well, for one thing, I’d argue it’s the greatest environmental novel ever written. For another, it’s a book that speaks powerfully to the climate crisis: extractive capitalism? check! resource exhaustion? check! species extinction? check! the folly of human domination over the nonhuman world? check! colonialism, imperialism, ecological devastation? check! check! check!<\/p>\n

Oh, and it’s also a novel about the shift from one source of energy to another. Here’s a little bit from my introduction:<\/p>\n

Moby-Dick<\/em> is therefore attuned to what today we call energy transition. The novel might help us think through the imperative implied by the idea of transition, which typically imagines, potentially at least, a smooth shift from one (dirty) energy source to another (clean) one with a minimum of disturbance to existing social arrangements. Yet the novel questions both the historical reality of and the logic behind fantasies of transition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if all that’s not enough, it also just so happens to feature what I believe to be the first-ever oil spill in all of American literature (see Ch. 109).<\/p>\n

Oh, and it’s the most boisterously hilarious novel you will ever read. Give it a shot. I’d love to hear what you think!<\/p>\n

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I don’t ordinarily do this sort of thing here at the blog, so I’ll beg forgiveness for a little self-promotion. But if you’re looking for a good beach read for the summer, might I recommend Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick? I’ve just edited a brand new edition and it’s out now from W.W. Norton. What, you might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5109,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}