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TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
208 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Tradeerscheint am28.11.2024
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.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextObject 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5013-8662-6
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum28.11.2024
ReiheObject Lessons
Seiten208 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Illustrationen11 b&w illustrations
Artikel-Nr.60910202

Inhalt/Kritik

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

Autor

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).
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