Emergency Repair Kit reviewed in ESC: English Studies in Canada

A review of the Emergency Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K) by Brent Ryan Bellamy has been published in ESC: English Studies in Canada — big thanks to Bellamy for the thoughtful engagement with the project!

The ENERGY EMERGENCY REPAIR KIT (E.E.R.K.) explores ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy; emergency; repair. The E.E.R.K. combines image, speculation, instruction, poetry, ritual and sound to riff on the ubiquity of repair manuals in our ever fragile, always broken, yet again exhausted world while interrogating the cynicism of energy emergencies declared to keep fueling business as usual. Taking mycelium as its muse and its model of an energy/communication system, the E.E.R.K. invites its users to decompose the urgencies of climate change and the injustices of racial-fossil capitalism-colonialism by speculating ritually and performatively on the political possibilities of care and repair. Learn more >>>

Brent Ryan Bellamy, "Emergency Repair Kit by Joan Greer et al. (review)," ESC: English Studies in Canada 48(4) (2022): 67–70. Read the Review >>>