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Power over Spice Is Power over All: Extractivism and Indigenous Knowledge in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”
Devin Griffiths reads Frank Herbert’s “Dune” as a novel of environmental protest.
Devin Griffiths
Devin Griffiths is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. His work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, ELH, Book History, Victorian Studies, and other journals. His first monograph, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins (2016), was short-listed for the book prize of the British Society of Literature and Science. He’s currently working on a study of the history of ecology and energy extraction titled “The Ecology of Power: Energy Aesthetics and the Arts of Relation.”