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SUMMARY:Oil’s Returning Monsters – Petrofiction\, Petroculture\, Energy
  Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Despite unprecedented acknowledgement of the deleterious effect
 s and outcomes of ongoing carbonization\, we remain beholden to a fossil-f
 uel regime. Industry preaches the necessity of maintaining global supply a
 nd opening new extractive frontiers\; a position mediated through “reali
 st” protocols. The emergence of petroculture as a critical field and art
 istic practice has offered a counter-perspective. It insists on viewing oi
 l/energy as social\, and therefore very much matter for world-literature a
 nd culture. This has partly involved mobilizing the “offshore” as meta
 phor for general energy unconscious\, a claim extrapolated in the evolving
  rubrics of the wider field of Energy Humanities. Using a range of literar
 y and visual examples from the North Sea and beyond\, the talk explores ho
 w\, in climate anxious times\, petrofiction offers alternative visions to 
 industry-sponsored projections of “oil realism”\, exposing its somewha
 t paradoxical associations with apocalyptic\, “irreal”\, and speculati
 ve cultural and economic forms. Underpinning the paper is the question of 
 how cultural criticism can confront what has been called “energopower”
 : ongoing “monstrous” forms of extractivism embedded in the world poli
 tical economy\, material infrastructures and affective lifeworlds of the c
 arbon-driven world-system in a time of climate breakdown.
X-ALT-DESC:<br />Despite unprecedented acknowledgement of the deleterious e
 ffects and outcomes of ongoing carbonization\, we remain beholden to a fos
 sil-fuel regime. Industry preaches the necessity of maintaining global sup
 ply and opening new extractive frontiers\; a position mediated through “
 realist” protocols. The emergence of petroculture as a critical field an
 d artistic practice has offered a counter-perspective. It insists on viewi
 ng oil/energy as social\, and therefore very much matter for world-literat
 ure and culture. This has partly involved mobilizing the “offshore” as
  metaphor for general energy unconscious\, a claim extrapolated in the evo
 lving rubrics of the wider field of Energy Humanities. Using a range of li
 terary and visual examples from the North Sea and beyond\, the talk explor
 es how\, in climate anxious times\, petrofiction offers alternative vision
 s to industry-sponsored projections of “oil realism”\, exposing its so
 mewhat paradoxical associations with apocalyptic\, “irreal”\, and spec
 ulative cultural and economic forms. Underpinning the paper is the questio
 n of how cultural criticism can confront what has been called “energopow
 er”: ongoing “monstrous” forms of extractivism embedded in the world
  political economy\, material infrastructures and affective lifeworlds of 
 the carbon-driven world-system in a time of climate breakdown. <br /> 
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