Publications

  • − Martens, Reuben, and Imre Szeman. “Indigeneity, Extractive Violence, and Culture: An Extended Review.” Energies, exp. mid 2024 (Forthcoming)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Extractive Zones: Reading for Energy Infrastructure in Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Burtynsky's Oil Photography.” Textual Practice, exp. late 2024 (Forthcoming)

    − Martens, Reuben. “The ‘Sadcom’ Story of a Washed-Up Horse: BoJack Horseman as a Tragedy of American Loneliness.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, exp. late 2024 (Forthcoming)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Sunny Side Up: Solarpunk Futures for a Dying World.” Extrapolation, vol. 64, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-52. doi: 10.3828/extr.2023.4 (Published)

    − Martens, Reuben, and Pieter Vermeulen. "Infrastructural Prolepsis: Contemporary American Literature and the Future Anterior." Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, vol. 8, no. 3, 2021, pp. 15-39. doi:10.1353/res.2021.0004. (Published)

    − Martens, Reuben. “The Question Concerning Energy: Machinic Ontology and Ecological Crisis in The Matrix Trilogy.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 410-35. doi:10.1093/isle/isaa089. (Published)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Petromelancholia and the Energopolitical Violence of Settler Colonialism in Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of The Crusted Snow.” American Imago, vol. 77, no. 1, 2020, pp. 193-211. doi:10.1353/aim.2020.0010. (Published)

    − Martens, Reuben, and Pieter Vermeulen. “Ecokritiek / Ecocriticism” Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap, vol. 10, 2018, pp. 103-08 (Published, in Dutch)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Blauwe energiepillen slikken: de dialectiek van menselijke energie in ‘The Matrix’-trilogie” Handelingen KZM, vol. 70, 2017, pp. 45-59. (Published, in Dutch)

  • Book Chapters:

    − Martens, Reuben. “Infrastructure.” The Anthropocene and Literature, edited by Tore Rye Andersen, Cambridge University Press, 2024. Cambridge Critical Concepts. (Forthcoming)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Fuelling the City: On the Politics of Energy Resource Extraction in City-Building Simulators.” Environmental Humanities and the Video Game: Playing to Save the World, edited by Kelly I. Aliano and Adam Crowley, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (In Press)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Hissing in the Airvents: Decoding the Narrative-Verse of Alien: Isolation (2014).” Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise, edited by Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 239-256. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197556023.003.0013 (Published)

    Book Reviews:

    − Martens, Reuben. “Design Earth, editors (2021). The Planet After Geoengineering, Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 112 pp.” Energy Humanities, 2024. (Forthcoming)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Elizabeth Ezra (2017) The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object, London: Bloomsbury, 208 pp. (Book Review).” Film-Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 2, 2020, pp. 245-49. doi:10.3366/film.2020.0142. (Published)

  • − Martens, Reuben. “Imagining the Future Beyond Petroleum.” Energy Humanities, 2022. (Forthcoming)

    − Honeybun-Arnolda, Elliot, and Reuben Martens. “Tedium, Tins, and Turbines: Environmental Sleepwalking in Doggerland (2019).” NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment, 20 April 2021. (Published online)

    − Martens, Reuben. “At Eternity’s Gate: een pittoreske wandeling door psychose, natuur en ecocinema.” Kinoautomat, 2019, pp. 1-5. (Published online, in Dutch)

  • − Janzen, David, and Reuben Martens. “Orchestrations of Carbon”, Speculative Soundscape Project, University of Lethbridge, AB, 2024-2026 (In Production)

    − Local Haunts. “Untitled Folk Project”, music EP in collaboration with David Janzen. Role: co-writer, co-producer, performer (vocals, guitar), 2023-present, (In Production)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Meditationer om Ljus i Mörkret (till Yseult)”, Creative ambient interpretation of “Vorspiel” from “Tristan und Isolde”, WWV 90 by Richard Wagner (1857-59), 2022. soundcloud.com/r_euben/meditationer-om-ljus-i-morkret/

    − Heise, Ursula K., Reuben Martens, Spencer Robins, Samantha Solis, Shouhei Tanaka, and Clara Wilch. “LA 2050 (Documentary Scripts).” Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, UCLA, 2021-2025, www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/la-2050/. (In Production)

    − Martens, Reuben. “Dalälven” Foothill: a journal for poetry, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 28-30, arts.cgu.edu/foothill-journal/foothill-vol-10-no-1/. (Published, in Dutch and English)