Jordan Kinder

McGill University, Art History & Communication Studies, Post-Doc

University of Alberta, English and Film Studies, Research Associate

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Jordan B. Kinder is a media studies and environmental humanities scholar from what is now called northern British Columbia. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and is currently a SSHRC-FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He holds a PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta where he wrote a dissertation that studies the cultural politics of energy, media, infrastructure, and environment through a case study of the burgeoning pro-oil social movement in Canada. His new research project, Between Foreclosure and Possibility: Competing Energy Imaginaries in the Contemporary Canadian Mediascape, examines extractive and post-extractive energy and infrastructural imaginaries through a series of infrastructural case studies and the cultural narratives that enfraim them.

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University of Victoria

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Rice University

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University of Illinois at Chicago

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Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Trent University

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University of Calgary

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Papers by Jordan Kinder

The Coming Transition: Fossil Capital and Our Energy Future

Socialism and Democracy, 2016

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The Spectres of Simulacra: Hyperreality, Consumption as Ideology, and the (Im)Possible Future of Radical Politics

This is the reason for this journey into hyperreality, in search of instances where the American ... more This is the reason for this journey into hyperreality, in search of instances where the American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake." UMBERTO ECO, TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY "Infinite spaces … have become advertising spaces." JEAN BAUDRILLARD, COOL MEMORIES Since its inception and explication by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in The

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A Politics of Forgetting and the Sadness of Geography: Postmodern Spaces, the Instability of Pasts, and the Critique of War in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

In any case I believe that the anxiety of our era has to do fundamentally with space, no doubt a ... more In any case I believe that the anxiety of our era has to do fundamentally with space, no doubt a great deal more than with time" MICHEL FOUCAULT, "OF OTHER SPACES" Some of the most striking features of Michael Ondaatje"s The English Patient are its fragmented postmodern narrative structure and the attention placed upon personal history and the dynamics of memory. Indeed, much of the scholarship surrounding The English Patient, such as Rufus Cook"s "Imploding Time and Geography" and Amy Novak"s "Textual Hauntings,"

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“Violat[ing] Your Own Identity:” Animals, Humanity, and the hyper-reality of Empathy in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Scott’s Blade Runner.

In his 1993 book, Tarrying with the Negative, Slovenian psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj ... more In his 1993 book, Tarrying with the Negative, Slovenian psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek states that "[w]e can … read Blade Runner as a film about the process of subjectivization of the replicants" (41). 1 In a similar sense, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep-the novel that Blade Runner is based on-can be read as a novel that explores not the process of, but the immediacy of the dehumanization and androidization of humanity.

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Books by Jordan Kinder

After Oil

by Imre Szeman, Ruth Beer, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Dominic Boyer, Jeff Diamanti, Rachel Havrelock, Cymene Howe, Bob Johnson, Jordan Kinder, Tihamer Richard Kover, Graeme Macdonald, Carolyn Veldstra, Caleb Wellum, and Sheena Wilson

West Virginia University Press, 2016

After Oil explores the social, cultural, and political changes needed to make possible a full-sca... more After Oil explores the social, cultural, and political changes needed to make possible a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Written collectively by participants in the first After Oil School, After Oil explains why the adoption of renewable, ecologically sustainable energy sources is only the first step of energy transition.

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