What is fossil civilization? In the book No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of how we came to rationalize fossil fuel use through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oil and plastics), showing what tethers us to petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place. What can we do to make electroculture a more just and sustainable alternative? In this episode, Boyer is joined in conversation about modern energy politics with Cara Daggett.Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker, and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University. His books include No More Fossils, Energopolitics, and Hyposubjects.Cara Daggett is associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech and author of The Birth of Energy.References:The Birth of Energy / Cara DaggettAnna TsingCarbon Democracy / Timothy MitchellMichel Foucault on biopowerSweetness and Power / Sidney MintzHegel, Haiti, and Universal History / Susan Buck-MorssFossil Capital / Andreas Malm15-Minute CityJohn LockeAlexander Dunlap on Fossil Fuel+Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Alexei YurchakStaying with the Trouble / Donna HarawayAriella AzoulayKyle Powys WhyteGeontologies / Elizabeth PovinelliLow Carbon Pleasure / a collaborative experimental art and performance project by Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and othersStacy Alaimo / ecophiliaNo More Fossils is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu. 

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