Oil / Michael Tondre.

Main entry:

Tondre, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

Oil / Michael Tondre.

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
©2025

Description:

xi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Series:

Object lessons

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the crude and the refined -- Origins: carbon creation myths -- Reproduction: from dinosaur juice to this American life -- Culture: full-throttle fiction -- Blood: petroviolence, fast and slow -- Disinformation: on fossil footbinds (a polemic) -- Futures: field notes from the Great Transition -- Epilogue: salvage dreams.

Summary:

"Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction. 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781501386626 paperback
150138662X paperback
electronic book
9781501386657
9781501386633
9781501386640

Subject:

Petroleum Popular works.

Form/genre:

Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Added entries:

Object lessons.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order

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