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Unsustainable oil : facts, counterfacts and fictions /
"Bitumen extraction is the lifeblood of Alberta, and there are many stories about the boom-and-bust economy. But what does literature have to say about the "progress" of petroculture? Jon Gordon maps out a new field of study by examining the relationship between culture and energy ext...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada :
The University of Alberta Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First electronic edition, 2015. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Fast Food Vacation
- Introduction : Unsustainable Rhetoric
- 1 Lyric Oil : Re-presenting Fossil Fuels As a Cultural By-Product
- 2 Oil Sacrifices : Petroculture and (E)utopian Imaginings of Progress
- 3 Impossible Choices : Fort Mac and Oil as a "Matter of Concern"
- 4 Irrational Oil : Ethos, Extraction!, Elder Brother, and Free Speech
- 5 Pipeline Facts, Poetic Counterfacts : Metaphor and Self-Deception in a Bitumen Nation
- 6 Oil Desires : Appetites and Fast Violence in the Bituminous Sands
- Conclusion : Living (with) Bitumen
- Epilogue : Whitney Lakes Provincial Park.