Oil Culture

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Investigating cultural discourses that have taken shape around oil, these essays in Oil Culture compose the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, the authors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic or physical necessity.

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"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."Journal of Historical Geography

"The collections strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."Environmental History

"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."Journal of Historical Geography

"The collections strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."Environmental History

"What Oil Culture brings to the table of global scholarship is an incredibly savvy intellectual manoeuvre that links Oil Studies with Cultural Studies"Oil Culture

"A groundbreaking work in oil studies that will provoke future critical conversation about and study of petrocapitalism, cultural representations of oil, and imaginative renderings of a post-oil future."The Years Work in English Studies

Author Bio

Ross Barrett is assistant professor of art history at the University of South Carolina.

Daniel Worden is associate professor of art at the Rochester Institute of Technology.