{"product_id":"energy-culture-art-and-theory-on-oil-and-beyond-9781949199123","title":"Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnergy Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative book about oil’s firm grip on our politics and everyday lives. It brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways of thinking and to achieve a more just and sustainable world.\u003cp\u003eThe original work collected in \u003ci\u003eEnergy Culture\u003c\/i\u003e creatively engages energy as a social form through lively arguments and artistic research organized around three vectors of inquiry. The first maps how fossil fuels became, and continue to be, embedded in North American society, from the ideology of tar sands reclamation projects to dreams of fiber optic cables running through the Northwest Passage. The second comprises creative and artistic responses to the dominance of fossil fuels in everyday life and to the challenge of realizing new energy cultures. The final section addresses the conceptual and political challenges posed by energy transition and calls into question established views on energy. Its contributions caution against solar capitalism, explore the politics of sabotage, and imagine an energy efficient transportation system called “the switch.” Imbued with a sense of urgency and hope, \u003ci\u003eEnergy Culture\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the deep imbrications of energy and culture while pointing provocatively to ways of thinking and living otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exemplary multidisciplinary approach to entangled questions of energy, politics, and aesthetics. \u003ci\u003eEnergy Culture\u003c\/i\u003e should excite and inspire an interdisciplinary community of scholars, artists, and activists; it not only points to possible ways forward for thinking and acting, but also offers tangible, provocative examples of what our creative and critical practices might do.”- Thomas S. Davis, author of\u003ci\u003e The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Mapping Energy Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOil on Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrespassage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ocean and the Cloud: Material Metaphors of Hidden Infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalking Matters: A Peripatetic Rethinking of Energy Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral Documents Pertaining to the Cascade Energy (transition) Park Corporation Corporation (CORPCORP)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSustaining Petrocultures: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Oil Sands Reclamation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Figuring Energy Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCapitalism in the Corpse of a Whale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTilting at Windfarms: Towards a Political Ecology of Energy Humanism and the Literary Aesthetic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmbodied Actants, Fossil Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Energy Apparatus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAeolian Survey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnecdotal Encounters on Driveways: The Aesthetics of Oil in Northern Alberta and Newfoundland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnergy Meets Telepathy Aesthetics and Materialist Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: The Politics of Energy Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRejecting Solar Capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Switch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure, and Sabotage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrike\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnergized Antagonisms: Thinking Beyond ‘Energy Culture’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVortex of Light (Ice Memoriam)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043344875863,"sku":"9781949199123","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781949199123.jpg?v=1750957922","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/energy-culture-art-and-theory-on-oil-and-beyond-9781949199123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}