Cameron Hu writes about the moral life of knowledge in the crises of capital, empire, and climate.
He is currently a fellow of the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. He previously held positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Wesleyan University, where he taught a sequence of courses on the cultural metaphysics of exhaustion and agency. His recent writings include:
Conscripts of Energy, South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming)
Carbon Consequentialism: Climate Technoscience and the Morality of Methane, Science, Technology, & Human Values (forthcoming)
Epistemania!, American Anthropologist (2026)
In the Energy Library, Environmental History (2026)
These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency (ft. Lachlan Summers), CA Supplementals (2026)
Fracking and Historicizing: On Deepened Time in West Texas, Cultural Anthropology (2025)
Postcolonial Technoscience Revisited, Social Studies of Science (2025)
Corporation, Power Shift (2025)
Crisis Actors, Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online (2024)
This Extraordinary Rock, Het Nieuwe Instituut (2022)
Building and Forgetting, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (2022)
A Jungle that Is Continually Encroaching, Society and Space (2018)
Write to Cameron at cameronhu @ protonmail dot com