Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now
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https://doi.org/10.33137/mt.v7i2.33699Keywords:
petrocultures, oil as media, energy humanities, energy and society, infrastructureAbstract
In this introduction to the special issue of MediaTropes on “Oil and Media, Oil as Media,” Jordan B. Kinder and Lucie Stepanik provide an account of the stakes and consequences of approaching oil as media as they situate it within the “material turn” of media studies and the broader project energy humanities. They argue that by critically approaching oil and its infrastructures as media, the contributions that comprise this issue puts forward one way to develop an account of oil that further refines the larger tasks and stakes implicit in the energy humanities. Together, these address the myriad ways in which oil mediates social, cultural, and ecological relations, on the one hand, and the ways in which it is mediated, on the other, while thinking through how such mediations might offer glimpses of a future beyond oil.Downloads
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2020-02-11
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