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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilson, Sheena (Editor ), Carlson, Adam (Editor ), Szeman, Imre (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.