Helios 1: Simon Orpana's Gasoline Dreams

Tagged:

Literature

Activism

Fossil Fuels

Cultural Change

12 Min Read

May 3, 2021

By

Welcome to Helios, an EH interview series about new research in the energy humanities and the creative processes that bring it to life.

Our inaugural interview features Simon Orpana, an artist and researcher from Hamilton, ON whose work renders sophisticated concepts and complex histories into arresting graphic narrative form. Fans of Icon Books’ “Graphic Guides” will appreciate Orpana’s ability to create compelling visualizations that retain the integrity of their source material.

EH editor Caleb Wellum sat down with Simon over Zoom on April 9 to talk about his new book with Fordham University Press, his process for turning ideas into images, and the life-affirming wastefulness of art.

Click the download link below to read the full illusrated interview.

Download the interview

Thank you! Your submission has been received!

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Read More

Low Carbon Justice in Canada's Net-Zero Transition

What is the Sun?

Greening Canada?: Energy and Climate Policy in the 2020 Throne Speech

Read More

October 6, 2020

Energy Humanities

Casey Williams

Casey Williams provides a definition and overview of the Energy Humanities. It is a field of studies that attends to the ways energy resources, systems, and use patterns shape the material, social, and cultural conditions of modern life. Understanding what it means to live in a fossil-fueled world—at a moment when planetary warming compels a transition away from fossil energy—is its chief task. What new habits, values, desires, and forms of life and art might obtain in a world “after oil”?

April 3, 2023

Break Time

Barbara Leckie

~

Wake-up call or final straw? What the Biden presidency means for Alberta's oil sands

~

Putin’s War in Ukraine and Europe’s Carbon Democracies: Paying the Price of Half-Hearted Climate Politics

~

Hydrogen in the Fossil Fuel Landscape

~

The Energized Enclosure of AI

~

Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice: The Vision and the Reality

~

Energy Humanities

~

Researchers work with high school students from 18 countries to address energy futures

~

~

Low Carbon Justice in Canada's Net-Zero Transition

~

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

~

Canadian Oil and Soil: Romantic Nationalism and Eco-Fascism

~

Forum on Carbon Democracy Part 4: The Mitchell Effect

~

The Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk: The Project and the Book

~

Travelling out of sight? Mapping the flight networks of Canada's gold mining industry

~

The Carbon Convoy: The Climate Emergency Fueling the Far Right’s Big Rigs

~

Ring of Fire Conflict Reveals Gaps in Ontario’s Economic Nationalist EV Battery Fantasy

~

Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy across the Americas

~

Global conspiracy? The dangers of the anti-Alberta energy campaign

~

Forum on Carbon Democracy Part 1: Why I Love Teaching Carbon Democracy

~

Greening Canada?: Energy and Climate Policy in the 2020 Throne Speech

~

Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

~

Making Poetry with the “Production Language” of Petrochemical Industry

~

Trying to Speak Goose

~

Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy

~

Symposium: "From Solar Futures to Future Solidarity”

~

EH in Practice Part 6: Preserving Oil: A Conversation with Educators at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum and Oil Museum of Canada

~

After Oil 3: Volatile Trajectories Podcast Series

~

Welcome to Energy Humanities

~

Canadian Refinery Workers Face an Unjust Transition

~

Helios 2: Anne Pasek on Changing Methods in a Changing Climate