Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else 3
6. Rigs, Platforms, and Pipelines
7. Extreme Oil and the Perils of Cinematic Practice 27
8. Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture 36
9. Who We Are and What We Do: Canada as a Pipeline Nation 78
10. Can the Petro-Modern State Form “Wither Away”? The Implications of Hyperobjects for Anti-Statist Politics 120
11. American Petro-Imaginaries: Modernism and Automobility
12. Behind the Closet Door: Pixar and Petro-Literacy 138
13. “Made for Mankind”: Cars, Cosmetics, and the Petrocultural Feminine 162
14. Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre 187
15. Where Is the Oil in Modernism? 197
16. Petro-Matters: Plasticity, Toxicity, Lubricity
17. Plastic Vision and the Sight of Petroculture 222
18. Oil Futures/Petrotextiles 242
19. Holding Water in Times of Hydrophobia 264
20. Lubricity: Smooth Oil's Political Frictions 287
21. Oil Theory
22. Petrocultures in Passive Revolution: The Autonomous Domain of Treaty Poetics 325
23. Getting into Accidents: Stoekl, Virilio, Postsustainability 355
24. Being and Oil: Or, How to Run a Pipeline through Heidegger 377
25. Petroleum's Longue Durée: Writing Oil's Temporalities into History 389
26. Petroscape Aesthetics
27. Petro-Pastoralism: Agrarian Hydrocarbons in South Trinidad 411
28. Sensing Oil: Sublime Art and Politics in Canada 431
29. Photography from Benjamin to Žižek, via the Petrochemical Sublime of Edward Burtynsky 458
30. New Stories, New Knowledge: Research Creation
31. Live from Alberta! Radio Petro Presents A Scary Home Companion 479
32. The Tar Sands Exploration Station: A Self-Directed Artist Residency 498
33. Contributors 507
34. Index 515