UID:
edocfu_9959230426202883
Format:
1 online resource (545 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7735-5040-2
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0-7735-5039-9
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Includes index.
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Front Matter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Acknowledgments --
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On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else --
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Rigs, Platforms, and Pipelines --
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Extreme Oil and the Perils of Cinematic Practice --
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Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture --
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Who We Are and What We Do: Canada as a Pipeline Nation --
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Can the Petro-Modern State Form “Wither Away”? The Implications of Hyperobjects for Anti-Statist Politics --
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American Petro-Imaginaries: Modernism and Automobility --
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Behind the Closet Door: Pixar and Petro-Literacy --
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“Made for Mankind”: Cars, Cosmetics, and the Petrocultural Feminine --
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Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre --
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Where Is the Oil in Modernism? --
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Petro-Matters: Plasticity, Toxicity, Lubricity --
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Plastic Vision and the Sight of Petroculture --
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Oil Futures/Petrotextiles --
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Holding Water in Times of Hydrophobia --
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Lubricity: Smooth Oil's Political Frictions --
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Oil Theory --
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Petrocultures in Passive Revolution: The Autonomous Domain of Treaty Poetics --
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Getting into Accidents: Stoekl, Virilio, Postsustainability --
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Being and Oil: Or, How to Run a Pipeline through Heidegger --
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Petroleum's Longue Durée: Writing Oil's Temporalities into History --
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Petroscape Aesthetics --
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Petro-Pastoralism: Agrarian Hydrocarbons in South Trinidad --
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Sensing Oil: Sublime Art and Politics in Canada --
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Photography from Benjamin to Žižek, via the Petrochemical Sublime of Edward Burtynsky --
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New Stories, New Knowledge: Research Creation --
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Live from Alberta! Radio Petro Presents A Scary Home Companion --
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The Tar Sands Exploration Station: A Self-Directed Artist Residency --
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Contributors --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7735-5037-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9780773550391
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