Overview

Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. Building on key insights in the environmental and energy humanities, Diamanti introduces the concept of the ‘terminal landscape’ as a site of storage, transformation and transition, essential to critical ecology in the 21st century. Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum presents these scenes of transformation as sites through which post-industrial capitalism distributes fossil fuels into the world. Diamanti uses this concept to redefine the post-industrial landscape by revealing the global flows of exchange and storage that precede the distribution of fossil fuels into the world as social form. Advancing a new media theory of energy, fossil fuels and other finite resources become new types of distributable media. Through this line of thinking, the book makes solid connections between media technologies and energy cultures that help to shape a radical critique of the current energy infrastructure that characterises global capitalism. Arguing that this infrastructure rests on millennia of compact matter, centuries of colonial violence, and decades of technological development, Diamanti’s analysis deepens our understanding of the environment as a ‘terminal landscape’ through case studies of oil companies, countries, artworks, and historical events. Using his under-examined typology of global energy further theorises and politicises the climate crisis for scholars and activists alike.

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Author:   Dr Jeff Diamanti (Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9781350191839

ISBN 10:   1350191833
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   17 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: How Climate Changes Theory Part One: From Coal Capital to Petroculture 1. Shell's Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra 2. The Cultural Work of Architecture: Energy Deepening and the Postindustrial Turn at FIAT 3. Architecture, Energyscapes, and the Expanded Field of Postindustrial Philosophy Part Two: From the Postindustrial Environment to the Concerns of Climate 4. Hydrological Transition and Greenland's New Concerns of Ice 5. Heliotropism at the Terminal Beach of Critique 6. Contrapuntal Ice Conclusion: Tipping Points at an Oblique Angle Index

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Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has contributed to a number of works on energy culture and is part of the University of Alberta's Petrocultures group and Rice University's Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).

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