Oil
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a labyrinth...
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"Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a labyrinth of oil fields, pipelines, and manufacturies, it tends to be known only through its magical effects: the thrill of the road, the euphoria of flight, and the metamorphic allure of everything from vinyl records to celluloid film and synthetic clothing. Amid a warming world unleashed by fossil fuels, oil appears as a rich resource for thinking about histories of globalization and technology no less than the energetic underpinnings of literature, film, and art"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Oil “
1. Invention: Liquid Imaginaries 2. Extraction: Recovering Stored Sunlight 3. Circulation: The Logic of Flow 4. Exhaustion: Running out of Gas 5. Transition: Towards a Post-Oil Future Index
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Tondre
Michael Tondre is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA. He is the author of The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender (2018).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Tondre
- 2024, 160 Seiten, 11 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 12,1 x 16,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Ian Bogost, Christopher Schaberg
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 150138662X
- ISBN-13: 9781501386626
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
More than any other substance, oil built the modern world; and more than any other substance it's now destroying that world. It's hard to imagine a more important subject, and this slim volume offers an introduction to the physics, politics, economics, and even the aesthetics of petroleum. Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature (1989)
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