By means of a close reading of Waubgeshig Rice’s novel "Moon of the Crusted Snow" (2018), this article explores how the energopolitics of settler colonialism, in the wake of fossil fuel extraction and the implementation of its concurrent infrastructures, violently disrupts Indigenous communities and forces them into experiencing petromelancholia—a subconscious life-depending need for fossil fuels. In doing so, the article aims to highlight the West’s inertia regarding their dependency on (infra)structures and the affordances that come with petrocapitalism, how such a framework is by no means a universal given, and how petromelancholia becomes a symptom of settler-colonial energopolitical violence.

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瓦布格西格·赖斯的《结壳雪月》中的石油忧郁症和定居者殖民主义的能量政治暴力

通过仔细阅读 Waubgeshig Rice 的小说《结壳雪之月》（2018 年），本文探讨了定居者殖民主义的能量政治，在化石燃料开采及其并行基础设施的实施之后，如何暴力破坏土著社区并迫使他们经历石油忧郁症——一种依赖于化石燃料的潜意识生活需求。在此过程中，本文旨在强调西方在依赖（基础设施）结构和石油资本主义带来的可供性方面的惯性，这样的框架绝不是普遍给定的，以及石油忧郁症如何成为定居者-殖民主义的症状能量政治暴力。