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Oil: Object Lessons

Autor Dr. Michael Tondre
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2024
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity's wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. 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. Michael Tondre shows how hydrocarbon became today's pre-eminent power. How did oil come to structure selfhood and social relations? And to what extent is oil not only a commercial product but a cultural one-something shaped by widely imagined dreams and desires? 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.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501386626
ISBN-10: 150138662X
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Identifies how oil is integral to the most timely topics of our generation, including battles over climate change, environmental justice, and racial equality, while conferring fresh interest upon longstanding fascinations like driving and flight, ideals of freedom, and theories of consumerism

Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

1. Invention: Liquid Imaginaries2. Extraction: Recovering Stored Sunlight3. Circulation: The Logic of Flow4. Exhaustion: Running out of Gas5. Transition: Towards a Post-Oil FutureIndex