Offer a formal critique of the story “Carbon”. In addition to attending to the text’s formal literary elements, you are to consider the following: how does the removal and re-use of carbon illustrate a form of utopian geo-engineering (see Streeby)?

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1) Read Love in the Anthropocene (Chapter 2 “Carbon” from page 59)

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2) Read Shelley Streeby

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3) Instructions:

Offer a formal critique of the story “Carbon”. In addition to attending to the text’s formal literary elements, you are to consider the following: how does the removal and re-use of carbon (which is being discussed here) illustrate a form of utopian geo-engineering (see Streeby)?

That is, how does the economic commitment to carbon make clear a cultural commitment to something called “petroculture”?

How are we to understand the relationship between the removal of local communities and the investment projects being touted as environmentally progressive?

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