Adam Bobbette (Talk - remote)
He/him — UK
Part of Session #1: Energy Electricity (with Vibeke Mascini)
Saturday 18 June | 11:00 - 12:40
Location: Likeminds
Adam Bobbette is a geographer and lecturer at the University of Glasgow. His books include The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java; New Earth Histories; and, Political Geology: Active Stratigraphy and the Making of Life.
At FIBER Festival 2022, Adam will present his talk titled Fossil Fuel Selves. How did fossil fuels shape our sense of self? Can we imagine a post-carbon culture without re-imagining what it means to be a person? This talk examines the deep ways in which fossil fuels have been wrapped up with ideas of selfhood and spirituality in the twentieth century. It traces these ideas by introducing you to a few geologists and miners who were deeply preoccupied with questions about what it meant to be a person.
What we learn is that many ideas about personhood that we take for granted were actually forged in the dark dust of coal mines and the open expanse of oil fields.
