Unsustainable oil : : facts, counterfacts and fictions / / Jon Gordon.
"Bitumen extraction is the lifeblood of Alberta, and there are many stories about the boom-and-bust economy. But what does literature have to say about the "progress" of petroculture? Jon Gordon maps out a new field of study by examining the relationship between culture and energy ext...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : The University of Alberta Press,, 2015. 2015 Ottawa, Ontario : : Canadian Electronic Library,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (lv, 234 pages) :; illustrations, map |
| Notes: | Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Fast Food Vacation
- Introduction : Unsustainable Rhetoric
- 1 Lyric Oil : Re-presenting Fossil Fuels As a Cultural By-Product
- 2 Oil Sacrifices : Petroculture and (E)utopian Imaginings of Progress
- 3 Impossible Choices : Fort Mac and Oil as a "Matter of Concern"
- 4 Irrational Oil : Ethos, Extraction!, Elder Brother, and Free Speech
- 5 Pipeline Facts, Poetic Counterfacts : Metaphor and Self-Deception in a Bitumen Nation
- 6 Oil Desires : Appetites and Fast Violence in the Bituminous Sands
- Conclusion : Living (with) Bitumen
- Epilogue : Whitney Lakes Provincial Park.