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• W2465386502 abstract "Reviewed by: Oil Culture ed. by Ross Barrett, Daniel Worden Paul Ugor Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, eds., with foreword by Allan Stoekl. Oil Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 424pp. $30. The oil industry boasts a grand history that stretches over a century and half, and oil studies itself as a field of inquiry emerged about half a century ago, meaning that oil has been part of our modern cultural and intellectual life for at least a hundred and fifty years. Yet, humanistic scholars have come only recently to the work of probing and forging the conjunction between oil and modern culture. This gap can be traced in part to a reluctance or perhaps even an indifference in the humanities to a field that is often perceived to be the exclusive preserve of the natural sciences. But even a very casual observance of contemporary life, even in the most remote parts of the world, will reveal the mutual interdependence of oil and modern civilization. Our rapid postmodern culture is essentially propped up by oil, and everyday culture itself in turn shapes the sometimes mind-boggling adventures in the oil sector. If the oil industry has pushed its operations to dangerous limits, expanding its operations to unthinkable ocean depths and unimaginable far away frontiers, it is because it constantly seeks to respond to our postmodern civilization marked by militarized capitalism, consumption, consumerism, and a rapid technologized postmodern life lubricated by oil. So oil has never been that far from culture, only we haven’t paid careful attention to the links between the two. It is this crucial work of linking oil and culture that Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden do in Oil Culture. In his scintillating foreword to the book, Allan Stoekl captures some of the core questions that Oil Culture asks: “[W]hat is oil culture? How are oil and culture conjoined? What is it for oil to be cultural? And culture to be oily? Why is oil culture and its fragmentation in culture so fundamentally important?” Stoekl argues that, although oil is natural in the sense that it is the byproduct of natural processes, “everything that is done with it—the pumping, refining, the grading, the distribution, the use in transport, [End Page 145] manufacture, heating, the generation of electricity—is fully cultural.” Although a product of nature’s mysterious fermentation, oil also has its history and politics, which make it cultural. For Stoekl, then, “oil is the ultimate natural-cultural artifact,” reminding us that the natural can also be cultural and the cultural, natural. This unacknowledged reality reminds us that, although human ingenuity is responsible for oil’s discovery, it too has come to define us, to form us, because our contemporary lives are shaped and defined by oil. So to know oil—its history, mysteries, politics, and culture—is indeed to know ourselves. What Oil Culture accomplishes, then, is to call our attention to the dual nature of oil: its materiality and invisibility. By its very material/physical form, oil has a concrete presence, but as a driver of modern life, it has an abstract social aspect at the same time. We not only see oil in its material forms, we smell and feel it, so we know it exists. Yet, we often take it for granted because we do not think consciously of how our lives are built, sustained, and driven by oil. Oil Culture reminds us of the multiple natures of oil, its presences and absences. It acknowledges oil’s naturalness but also reminds us of oil’s culturality. According to the editors, “Oil Culture analyzes, interprets, and explicates oil’s presence in culture. This presence manifests in multiple ways: oil is material, mystical, historical, geological, and agential. Oil does things, connotes meaning, and is leveraged by nations, corporations, and individuals.” So oil breeds cultures and, at times, is culture itself. By taking up oil as a subject of cultural analysis, then, Oil Culture, as the editors put it, “seeks to remedy the relative silence that scholars in the humanities have maintained about oil.” It calls attention to the centrality of oil in global contemporary life, reminding us of how oil now stands..." @default.
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