Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now
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 h...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8200b15b650b4e4bafafa77e783deffa2022-12-21T23:58:43ZengUniversity of Toronto LibrariesMediaTropes1913-60052020-02-017210.33137/mt.v7i2.33699Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and NowJordan Kinder0Lucie Stepanik1University of AlbertaUniversity of British ColumbiaIn 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.https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/33699petroculturesoil as mediaenergy humanitiesenergy and societyinfrastructure |
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| title | Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now |
| title_full | Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now |
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| title_short | Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now |
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