inspiration from CENHS’s fifth annual spring research symposium,

otherwise known as Cultures of Energy 5 (http://culturesofenergy.com/cultures-of-energy-april-21-23-2016-poster-and-schedule/),

which took place at Rice last week in the afterwash of Houston’s

historic flooding. Cymene and Dominic share fond memories from the

symposium and then, inspired by the Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet

Unseen project, (http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/803-lexicon-for-an-anthropocene-yet-unseen),

several of our distinguished visitors offer short takes and

keywords for the Anthropocene. Cara Daggett (Johns Hopkins) goes to

“work” (13:50), Andreas Malm (Lund) offers “resistance” (17:47),

and Lynn Badia (Alberta) muses on “free” (22:50). Graeme Macdonald

(Warwick) shows us his “passport” (24:58) and smudge studio

(Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, http://www.smudgestudio.org) walk

us through “ippo” (30:00). Finally, Toronto-based poet Mathew

Henderson reads (36:30) from his remarkable collection, The

Lease (http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/lease).

All in all, we celebrate energy humanities as an alien intelligence

in our petrocultural system. Get ready for Cultures of Energy 6 in

2017!