Unda: A graphic novel of energy encounters

Cymene Howe is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of Intimate Activism (Duke 2013) and Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke, 2019), an ethnographic study of renewable energy infrastructures and their cultural and environmental impacts in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is co-editor of The Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (Punctum, 2020), and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Her current research, Melt/Rise, focuses on climate adaptation and the relationship between cryospheric loss in the Arctic and sea level rise in lower latitude coastal cities. With Dominic Boyer, she produced the documentary film Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World (2018) and in August 2019, initiated the installation of the world’s first memorial to a glacier felled by climate change. The Okjökull memorial event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okjökull) in Iceland was meant as a global call to action and in memory of a world rapidly melting away.

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Donald Bren Chair at the School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine, where he directs the Evoke Laboratory, which explores new forms of knowledge expression. Recent positions include Professor of and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool, and Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara. Together with Leigh Star he wrote Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences; his most recent books are Memory Practices in the Sciences and (with Stefan Timmermans, Adele Clarke and Ellen Balka) the edited collection: Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. He is currently completing a trilogy of papers on ants, fungi and global consciousness and writing a book on time and computing.

Neil Ford makes comics, prints and stuff for the web. He lives & works in Orkney, 59th parallel North. @neil_ford.

Rob Jones is a writer and Letterer of comics. His work has been published in such compa- nies as Image Comics, Heavy Metal, Humanoids, DC Thomson, Scout Comics, Behemoth Comics, BHP Comics and many more. He is based in Yorkshire in the UK and enjoys vari- ous types of sandwiches. He can often be found shouting madness into the void on twitter at @RobJonesWrites or at the pigeons whilst in his dressing gown at the local park.