Petrocultures : oil, politics, culture
edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
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| Utgitt | Montreal, Canada : : MCGill-Queen's University Press , 2017
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| Omfang | xii, 532 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Figures -- Acknowledgments -- On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else / Sheena Wilson, Imre Szeman, and Adam Carlson -- Part One: Rigs, Platforms, and Pipelines. Extreme Oil and the Perils of Cinematic Practice / Brenda Longfellow -- Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture / Graeme Macdonald -- Who We Are and What We Can Do: Canada as a Pipeline Nation / Darin Barney -- Can the Petro-Modern State Form "Wither Away"? The Implications of Hyperobjects for Anti-Statist Politics / Michael Truscello -- Part Two: American Petro-Imaginaries: Modernism and Automobility. Behind the Closet Door: Pixar and Petro-Literacy / Michael Malouf -- "Made for Mankind": Cars, Cosmetics, and the Petrocultural Feminine / Cecily Devereux -- Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre / Glenn Willmott -- Where Is the Oil in Modernism? / Joshua Schuster -- Part Three: Petro-Matters: Plasticity, Toxicity, Lubricity. Plastic Vision and the Sight of the Petroculture / Amanda Boetzkes -- Oil Futures/ Petrotextiles / Kirsty Robertson -- Holding Water in Times of Hydrophobia / Janine MacLeod -- Lubricity: Smooth Oil's Political Frictions / Mark Simpson -- Part Four: Oil Theory. Petrocultures in Passive Revolution: The Autonomous Domain of Treaty Poetics / Sourayan Mookerjea -- Getting into Accidents: Stoekl, Virilio, Postsustainability / Randy Schroeder -- Being and Oil: Or, How to Run a Pipeline through Heidegger / Andrew Pendakis -- Petroleum's Longue Duree: Writing Oil's Temporalities into History / Tim Kaposy -- Part Five: Petroscape Aesthetics. Petro-Pastoralism: Agrarian Hydrocarbons in South Trinidad / David McDermott Hughes -- Sensing Oil: Sublime Art and Politics in Canada / Georgiana Banita -- Photography from Benjamin to Žižek, via the Petrochemical Sublime of Edward Burtynsky / Clint Burnham -- Part Six: New Stories, New Knowledge: Research Creation. Live from Alberta! Radio Petro Presents A Scary Home Companion / Geo Takach -- The Tar Sands Exploration Station: A Self-Directed Artist Residency / Allison Rowe -- Contributors -- Index.. - Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil's essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public's imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil's vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors' essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created.A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption of fossil fuels.. - "The character of contemporary life depends fundamentally on oil--a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has fuelled the shape of our cities, manufacturing economies, global trade, auto-mobility, and more. And yet it is only over the past decade that full recognition of oil's social and cultural significance has become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion. Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture offers a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil. This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a map of the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has come to be positioned in public imaginaries around the world. While oil is a physical substance, it only holds the significance it does for publics around the world as a result of the social and historical narratives and processes that enable its extraction and which shape the cultural forms, experiences, and expectations within which it circulates. The ground breaking energy humanities essays collected in Petrocultures investigate the narratives and discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture, so that we might more fully understand its true social role and significance--and what it might mean to shift to cultures no longer shaped so deeply by fossil fuels."-
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| Emner | petroleumsvirksomhet samfunnsforhold samfunnsutvikling politikk kulturhistorie økonomi
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| ISBN | 9780773550384
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