Full Description
Financial Petroleum Cultures draws upon literature, film, architecture, photography, infrastructure, advertisements, and financial reports to explore how financial narratives shape the future of energy and climate. Using frameworks from the energy, environmental, and economic humanities, the book argues that financial representations dominate contemporary petroleum cultures. It focuses on the competing narratives of finance, celebratory and critical, determining how energy is perceived, imagined, and used. Encompassing critiques of ideology and infrastructure, this book offers a new understanding of the political visions enabled and constrained by the financial sector in an increasingly volatile world.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Plotting Petrodollars: Oil Crisis and the Conspiracy Novel.- Chapter 3: Architecture of the Offshore: Lloyd's in Transition.- Chapter 4: Derivative Aesthetics: Representing Volatility.- Chapter 5: Delay: Horrors on the Permafrost.- Chapter 6: Making Light Work: Genres of Solar Finance.- Chapter 7: Transitional Utopias: Financial Representation and Utopian Negation.- Chapter 8: Coda: Energy Futures.
