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Literary and cultural critic Bob Johnson provides a language with which to make sense of these complex, embodied, everyday experiences of extracted energy. * Public Books * The subtitle of Mineral Rites is particularly apt, for it truly is a work of rhetorical archaeology - Johnson peels back the layers of what we know (or think we know) about the fossil fuel industry to reveal the mind-bogglingly expansive scope of how the fossil economy reaches out and affects peoples' lived experiences in vastly different ways . . . As a cautionary tale, it is a veritable punch to the gut that leaves us gasping for air. * Material Culture *

Literary and cultural critic Bob Johnson provides a language with which to make sense of these complex, embodied, everyday experiences of extracted energy. The subtitle of Mineral Rites is particularly apt, for it truly is a work of rhetorical archaeology - Johnson peels back the layers of what we know (or think we know) about the fossil fuel industry to reveal the mind-bogglingly expansive scope of how the fossil economy reaches out and affects peoples' lived experiences in vastly different ways . . . As a cautionary tale, it is a veritable punch to the gut that leaves us gasping for air.

Literary and cultural critic Bob Johnson provides a language with which to make sense of these complex, embodied, everyday experiences of extracted energy. —Public Books The subtitle of Mineral Rites is particularly apt, for it truly is a work of rhetorical archaeology – Johnson peels back the layers of what we know (or think we know) about the fossil fuel industry to reveal the mind-bogglingly expansive scope of how the fossil economy reaches out and affects peoples' lived experiences in vastly different ways . . . As a cautionary tale, it is a veritable punch to the gut that leaves us gasping for air. —Material Culture

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Bob Johnson is the chair of the Department of Social Sciences and a professor of history at National University. He is the author of Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture.

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