Oil—The Substance Lubricating a Society Thirsty for Change

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Editorial 6
4. Preface 8
5. Shattering the Oil Mirror: A Holistic Understanding of Crude Oil 12
6. Towards Petro- Objectivity: The Scientist’s View 18
7. Experimenting with Oil 24
8. A Collective Imaginative Journey to Rethink Oil 32
9. Crude Oil Experiment Series 38
10. How Does It Smell? 48
11. How Toxic Is It to Bacteria? 54
12. A Critical View from the Perspective of Art and Science 58
13. Crude Oil as a Substance for Artistic Experimentation 62
14. Oil Dialogue 66
15. Primordial Soup: A Dance of Exchange Systems and Variables 70
16. WHO IS PETER LUMO? 74
17. Putin WAR 76
18. The Visibility/Invisibility of Oil 78
19. We Need a Delta! 82
20. From Oil Encounters to Oil Reflections 86
21. What a Difference a Substance Makes 88
22. Oil—The Substance Lubricating a Society Thirsty for Change 90
23. The Raw and the Refined 94
24. A Journey Through Oil’s Space 98
25. The Becoming of a Graphic Novel: Teresa 102
26. Teresa a fiction on a not-so-deep future of energy 107
27. A Crude Encounter 121
28. Biographies 150
29. Imprint 154