9781350191839-1350191833-Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes

Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9781350191839
ISBN-10: 1350191833
Author: Jeff Diamanti
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover 184 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781350191839
ISBN-10: 1350191833
Author: Jeff Diamanti
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover 184 pages

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Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (ISBN-13: 9781350191839 and ISBN-10: 1350191833), written by authors Jeff Diamanti, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Environmental Economics (Economics, Criticism, Philosophy, Political) books. You can easily purchase or rent Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Environmental Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.97.

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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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