The Spouter Read Aloud

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I will use this space to read aloud essays that have been previously published.

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Hydrocarbon Corpse Juice

I wrote this in 2020 and posted it in early ‘21. It was the first piece in the overall project I’m still working on. It sorely needed revision. I’d thought I could do the whole petrohistory of America in 2,000 words, but in fact I was just beginning a bigger project. Now that this revision is done, I consider this to be the starting place for anyone coming to my project for the first time. I'm very grateful to those of you who came to my work at various points and had to figure out what the f**k...

Jul 02, 2023•22 min

Plastication

Dear reader, my intention with this substack is to produce a coherent book on petrohistory, but what you’re getting here is far from the fully realized work. T o support this project, buy a paid subscription now, and I’ll send you a “free” copy of the book in a few years, when it’s ready. It will be better than the below. I thought that this essay on plastic would make a good second read-aloud. It was before I came to Snuckstack, so I don’t know if people have looked at it. This time I got fancy...

Jun 02, 2023•30 min

The Autonomous Chemical Weapon, Audio Version

Dear reader, my intention with this substack is to produce in public a coherent book on petrohistory, but what you’re getting here is far from the fully realized work. T o support this project, buy a paid subscription now, and I’ll send you a “free” copy of the book in a few years, when it’s ready. It will be better than the below. I read this essay into a microphone. 10,000 words is a lot to read sitting at a computer, and I hope that the audio may make it more accessible to folx. It’s also a w...

May 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min

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