Oil
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501386626
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 168x124x26 mm
- Weight 190 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 b&w illustrations 607
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Crude and the Refined
I Origins: Carbon Creation Myths
II Reproduction: From Dinosaur Juice to This American Life
III Culture: Full-Throttle Fiction
IV Blood: Petroviolence, Fast and Slow
V Disinformation: On Fossil Footbinds (A Polemic)
VI Futures: Field Notes from the Great Transition
Epilogue: Salvage Dreams
Index
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