“Dirty Energy” and Ecological Performativity in Contemporary English Poems: Critiquing Petro Culture of the Anthropocene

Fossil fuels will always take command of human’s daily life. Despite being “dirty energy”, humans cannot jettison them since they are the mainstay for multipurpose energies. They more dependable and accessible than renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar panel, wind power. Even so, in this present globalization increasing scale consumerism via digital technology social media consumes fuels. This petro-overconsumption their derivative products plastic certainly has some detrimental impacts: emission carbon dioxide other toxic particles to atmosphere. Contemporary English poems works that critique petro-overconsumption. A Canadian poet, Stephen Collis his poem “Take Oil & Hum”; a Hawaiian Craig Santos Peres about plastic, “The Age Plastic”; two Indonesian poets, AfrizalMalna “petrol cupboard” F. Aziz Manna “Estuary” epitome ecopoems share concern. With performative interiorizing petro-materiality, depiction petro-transcorporeality from one form into another, articulate polemics impacts non-renewable on human nonhuman creatures issue ecological precarity era anthropocene.