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Dr. J. (Jeff) Diamanti

Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities
Faculty of Humanities
Literatuurwetenschap
Photographer: Bas Uterwijk

Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 7.16
Postal address
  • Postbus 1642
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • About

    Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016-17 he was the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellow in Media and the Environment where he co-convened the international colloquium on Climate Realism, the results of which appear in a book collection on Routledge and a double issue of Resilience. His first book, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021) tracks the political and media ecology of fossil fuels across the extractive and logistical spaces that connect remote territories like Greenland to the economies of North America and Western Europe. His new research, Bloom Ecologies details the return to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studying the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.

    His work has appeared in the journals e-flux, Radical PhilosophyStasis, New Formations, Postmodern Culture, Mediations, Western American Literature, Krisis, and Reviews in Cultural Theory, as well a number of books including After Ice (University of British Columbia Press), Fueling Culture (Fordham UP) and A Companion to Critical and Cultural Studies (Wiley-Blackwell). Diamanti has edited a number of book and journal collections including Contemporary Marxist Theory (Bloomsbury 2014); Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM’ Press 2018); Energy Culture (West Virginia University Press 2019); Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (2018); and a special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory on “Energy Humanities.” Forthcoming editorial work includes the Elemental Solarities book collection (Punctum Press) with Cymene Howe and Amelia Moore, and a special issue of Postmodern Culture on “Field Theory.” He co-directs the ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar with Joost de Bloois, and with Amanda Boetzkes, he co-organizes “At the Moraine,” an ongoing research project on the political ecology of glacial retreat in the Arctic. With Fred Carter, he co-directs the FieldARTS residency in Amsterdam, NL.

  • Website
  • Publications

    2023

    • Diamanti, J. (2023). “Respiratory Realism: Elemental Intimacies Between “Carbon Black” and Red Desert,”. In T. Konrad (Ed.), Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility Exeter University Press.
    • Diamanti, J. (Accepted/In press). Field Theory. Postmodern Culture , 32(4).
    • Diamanti, J. (Accepted/In press). Field Theory. Postmodern Culture , [1].
    • Diamanti, J. (Accepted/In press). Phosphate Futures. In Solarities: Refractions of Being in the Time of Sun Punctum Books.
    • Diamanti, J., Bellinetti, G., & van den Eijnden, T. G. A. (2023). Ecoliteracies. Manuscript submitted for publication. In K. Mondal (Ed.), Staying Together Lexington Books.
    • Diamanti, J., Howe, C., & Moore, A. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). Solarities: Refractions of Being in Time with the Sun.

    2022

    • Diamanti, J. (Accepted/In press). Plastic Poetics: Challenging the epistemologies of plastic waste in the artwork of Maria Roelofsen. In T. Konrad (Ed.), Plastics Edinburgh University Press.

    2021

    • Badia , L., Cetinić, M., & Diamanti, J. (2021). Introduction. In L. Badia, M. Cetinić, & J. Diamanti (Eds.), Climate Realism : The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene (pp. 1-16). (Routledge Research in the Anthropocene). Routledge. [details]
    • Badia , L., Cetinić, M., & Diamanti, J. (Eds.) (2021). Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene. (Routledge Research in the Anthropocene). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429428289 [details]
    • Diamanti, J. (2021). Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes. Bloomsbury Academic.
    • Diamanti, J. (2021). On Hegel's Ground. Stasis, 11(1), 53-74. https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-21-11-1-53-74 [details]
    • Diamanti, J. (2021). Our Future is Still the Future of 1973: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra. New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, 103, 43-62. https://doi.org/10.3898/NeWF:103.03.2021 [details]
    • Diamanti, J., & Cetinic, M. (2021). The Abstract and the Concrete in Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s Oil Barrels. In Saturation : An Elemental Politics (Elements). Duke University Press.
    • Diamanti, J., & Mika, K. M. (2021). Critique Under Duress: What Is the Role of Critique and Radical Critical Theory in the Present of Pathos? In (Un)Timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique (pp. 77). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..

    2020

    2019

    • Diamanti, J. (2019). Resource Radicalism and the Solar System of Black Empire. Open Library of the Humanities, 5(1), [56]. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.96 [details]
    • Diamanti, J., Cetinic, M., & Badia , L. (Accepted/In press). Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere. Resilience : a journal of the environmental humanities, 2(6).
    • Pendakis , A., Szeman , I., & Diamanti, J. (Eds.) (2019). The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. (Bloomsbury Companions). London : Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474278737 [details]
    • Szeman , I., & Diamanti, J. (2019). Introduction. In I. Szeman, & J. Diamanti (Eds.), Energy Cultures: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (pp. 1-21). (Energy and Society). West Virginia University Press. [details]
    • Szeman , I., & Diamanti, J. (Eds.) (2019). Energy Cultures: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond . (Energy and Society). West Virginia University Press. [details]

    2018

    2017

    • Cetinić, M., & Diamanti, J. (2017). Affect. In I. Szeman , S. Blacker, & J. Sully (Eds.), A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory (pp. 301-311). New York: Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118472262.ch18 [details]
    • Diamanti, J. (2017). From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus. Western American Literature, 51(4), 391-407. https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2017.0002 [details]
    • Diamanti, J. (2017). Infrastructure. In I. Szeman , J. Wenzel, & P. Yaeger (Eds.), Fueling Culture : 101 words for energy and environment (pp. 198-201). New York: Fordham University Press. [details]

    2016

    • Diamanti, J. (2016). Energyscapes, Architecture, and the Expanded Field of Postindustrial Philosophy. Postmodern Culture , 26(2). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/635541
    • Diamanti, J., Szeman , I., Badia , L., Simpson, M., & O'Driscoll , M. (Eds.) (2016). After Oil. Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press.

    2014

    2013

    • Diamanti, J. (2013). Postindustrialisation in the Present Tense. Stages: Journal of the Liverpool Biennial, 0, 21-24.

    2012

    • Diamanti, J., & Cetinic, M. (2012). Monumental Oil. American Book Review , 33(3), 5-29.

    2020

    2018

    • Bellamy , B. R., & Diamanti, J. (Eds.) (2018). Materialism and the Critique of Energy. Chicago : MCM'. [details]

    2015

    2023

    • Carter, F., & Diamanti, J. (Eds.) (2023). Field Docket. De Balie/Sonic Acts.
    • Diamanti, J. (2023). The Petrocultural Real. In Forgotten Seas Eriskay Collection.

    2022

    • Diamanti, J. (2022). Oil’s Depth(s) of Fields. ECOES, 4.

    2016

    • Diamanti, J. (2016). Three Theses on Energy and Capital. Reviews in Cultural Theory .
    • Diamanti, J., & Bellamy , B. (2016). Envisioning the Energy Humanities. Reviews in Cultural Theory , 6(3).
    • Diamanti, J., & Bellamy , B. (2016). Envisioning the Energy Humanities: An Introduction. Reviews in Cultural Theory , 6(3).

    Prize / grant

    • Diamanti, J. (2019). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant.

    Talk / presentation

    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (3-12-2021). "Carried by Currents", KABK Fault Lines Symposium , Den Haag. https://www.kabk.nl/en/lectorates/design/fault-lines-kabk-research-forum-2021-2
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (9-7-2021). "Oil's Fields", Cultures, Ecologies and Economies of Oil, Southampton. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/siah/news/2021/07/22-cultures-and-ecologies-of-oil.page
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (7-7-2021). Elemental Currents in the North Atlantic, Geophilosophy Seminar with Giovanni Tusa, Lisbon.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (17-6-2021). Energy Humanities, KNAW symposium on Environmental Humanities, Amsterdam.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (3-6-2021). "Elemental Subjects of the Sea: AMOC and the Ends of the North Atlantic", FIELDWORK speaker series hosted by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, Edinburgh .
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (17-12-2020). “Against Liberty: Persons and Things in the Pandemic.” Co-presented with Zeynep Oguz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje.
    • Martin, N. (speaker) & Diamanti, J. (speaker) (23-9-2020). Caring Matters Conference: Endangerment Panel, Caring Matters , Leiden. https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/caring-matters-endangerment
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (10-12-2019). Hydrological Transition in Greenland, Australian Anthropological Society 2019 , Canbera.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (29-10-2019). “Ecological Reciprocity.”, Dartmouth College.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (30-9-2019). “Contrapuntal Ice.”, Sandberg Instituut.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (13-9-2019). Drinking A Dead Glacier and Kant’s Kingdom of Ends, FIBRE.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (9-9-2019). “Reciprocity at the Terminal Beach.”, KU Leuven.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (12-7-2019). Masterclass on “How Climate Changes Theory", Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (29-3-2019). “Oil Barrels Between Concretion and Abstraction in Jeanne-Claude and Christo.”, Jameel Arts Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGEZI89uQX0&ab_channel=ArtJameel
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (29-8-2018). Terminal Landscapes: Flowing Futures and the Contemporary Melt in the Petrocultural Present, Petrocultures 2018, Glasgow .
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (10-5-2018). Between Habitus and Habitat, Energy Humanities: , Bratislava .
    • Diamanti, J. (speaker) (20-4-2018). The Future of Dependency: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra, ASCA Cities Seminar , Amsterdam .

    Others

    • Diamanti, J. (host) & Overwijk, J. L. (host) (13-4-2018). Amy De'Ath (hosting a visitor).
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