Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture

Awards:   Commended for Alanna Bodnar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities 2022
Author:   Simon Orpana ,  Imre Szeman ,  Mark Simpson
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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9780823297726


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 September 2021
Format:   Paperback
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  • Commended for Alanna Bodnar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities 2022

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Author:   Simon Orpana ,  Imre Szeman ,  Mark Simpson
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823297726


ISBN 10:   0823297721
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 September 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Imre Szeman | vii Introduction | 1 1 Petroculture | 13 2 Big, Oily Dreams | 49 3 Attachment | 77 4 Quilting Point | 107 5 Petrotemporality | 139 6 Scenarios | 169 7 Excess | 185 8 The Beach | 211 Afterword by Mark Simpson | 239 Acknowledgments | 243 Notes | 247 Bibliography | 253

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This is an important book! We are floundering up to our necks in oil and Simon Orpana explains how we got here, the dire consequences of our dependence on fossil fuel, and posits ways forward to get out of the pool. It's in-depth, academic and playful and examines petroculture through multiple cultural lenses coupled with visually inventive imagery, creating an incredibly readable book. ---Joe Ollmann, author/artist of Fictional Father, When I began reading Gasoline Dreams, I was immediately mesmerized. Our fossil fuels, in all of their smoggy reality, have never been so clearly interwoven with the abstract systems that maintain their hold on our lives. At once personal and in conversation with theories of the Anthropocene, Orpana's Gasoline Dreams is a landmark work in nonfiction comics. Like Guy Delisle, Ebony Flowers, Sarah Glidden, and Joe Sacco, Simon Orpana uses the comics medium to represent our reality in all of its complexity. Gasoline Dreams transforms the major insights of the environmental humanities into a moving account of how urgent it is to transition from fossil fuels, right now. ---Daniel Worden, author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z, Anyone trying to understand how settler states, petroculture, and climate change shape everyday life as well as movements that imagine what the world might look like in a post-oil future needs to read this powerful book by a brilliant theorist, storyteller, and artist.---Shelley Streeby, author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism,


This is an important book! We are floundering up to our necks in oil and Simon Orpana explains how we got here, the dire consequences of our dependence on fossil fuel, and posits ways forward to get out of the pool. It's in-depth, academic and playful and examines petroculture through multiple cultural lenses coupled with visually inventive imagery, creating an incredibly readable book. -- Joe Ollmann, author/artist of Fictional Father When I began reading Gasoline Dreams, I was immediately mesmerized. Our fossil fuels, in all of their smoggy reality, have never been so clearly interwoven with the abstract systems that maintain their hold on our lives. At once personal and in conversation with theories of the Anthropocene, Orpana's Gasoline Dreams is a landmark work in nonfiction comics. Like Guy Delisle, Ebony Flowers, Sarah Glidden, and Joe Sacco, Simon Orpana uses the comics medium to represent our reality in all of its complexity. Gasoline Dreams transforms the major insights of the environmental humanities into a moving account of how urgent it is to transition from fossil fuels, right now. -- Daniel Worden, author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z Anyone trying to understand how settler states, petroculture, and climate change shape everyday life as well as movements that imagine what the world might look like in a post-oil future needs to read this powerful book by a brilliant theorist, storyteller, and artist. -- Shelley Streeby, author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism


Author Information

Mark Simpson (Afterword By) Mark Simpson is Professor of English and Film Studies and Principal Investigator for Transition in Energy, Culture and Society at the University of Alberta. Simon Orpana (Author) Simon Orpana is an artist and educator. His work explores the political and historical dimensions of popular culture, and his writing has appeared in such collections as Zombie Theory: A Reader and Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts. He is also the co author of Showdown! Making Modern Unions, a graphic history of labor organizing. Imre Szeman (Foreword By) Imre Szeman is University Research Chair of Environmental Communication and Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo.

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