Petroculture

From a vantage point twenty years hence, as the study of petroculture and petrofiction develops, the question remains pressing: why is it that this mineral, utterly pervasive in the everyday lives of people in developed economies, remains mostly "offshore" in social and cultural consciousness, surfacing now and again in the wake of foreign wars, gas price hikes, or Gulf-of-Mexico-type disasters?

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This essay addresses the sight of petroculture, which is to say it examines how the global oil industry is represented, and how this, in turn, conditions vision.

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For scholars such as Macdonald, among others discussed in this chapter, contemporary culture is a petroculture, where fossil fuels have shaped the character and form of the modern (Buell 2012; LeMenager 2012; Wilson and Pendakis 2012; Barrett and Worden 2014; Szeman and Boyer 2017).

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Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.

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