Petrocultures : oil, politics, culture /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- PETROCULTURES
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else
- PART ONE: RIGS, PLATFORMS, AND PIPELINES
- 1 Extreme Oil and the Perils of Cinematic Practice
- 2 Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture
- 3 Who We Are and What We Do: Canada as a Pipeline Nation
- 4 Can the Petro-Modern State Form "Wither Away"? The Implications of Hyperobjects for Anti-Statist Politics
- PART TWO: AMERICAN PETRO-IMAGINARIES: MODERNISM AND AUTOMOBILITY
- 5 Behind the Closet Door: Pixar and Petro-Literacy
- 6 "Made for Mankind": Cars, Cosmetics, and the Petrocultural Feminine
- 7 Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre
- 8 Where Is the Oil in Modernism?
- PART THREE: PETRO-MATTERS: PLASTICITY, TOXICITY, LUBRICITY
- 9 Plastic Vision and the Sight of Petroculture
- 10 Oil Futures/Petrotextiles
- 11 Holding Water in Times of Hydrophobia
- 12 Lubricity: Smooth Oil's Political Frictions
- PART FOUR: OIL THEORY
- 13 Petrocultures in Passive Revolution: The Autonomous Domain of Treaty Poetics
- 14 Getting into Accidents: Stoekl, Virilio, Postsustainability
- 15 Being and Oil: Or, How to Run a Pipeline through Heidegger
- 16 Petroleum's Longue Durée: Writing Oil's Temporalities into History
- PART FIVE: PETROSCAPE AESTHETICS
- 17 Petro-Pastoralism: Agrarian Hydrocarbons in South Trinidad
- 18 Sensing Oil: Sublime Art and Politics in Canada
- 19 Photography from Benjamin to Žižek, via the Petrochemical Sublime of Edward Burtynsky
- PART SIX: NEW STORIES, NEW KNOWLEDGE: RESEARCH CREATION
- 20 Live from Alberta! Radio Petro Presents A Scary Home Companion
- 21 The Tar Sands Exploration Station: A Self-Directed Artist Residency
- Contributors
- Index.