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Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions de Jon Gordon

Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions

Autor Jon Gordon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2015
"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." —from the IntroductionIn Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our understanding of the culture and the ethics of energy production in Canada. Rather than looking for better facts or better interpretations of the facts, Gordon challenges us to embrace the future after oil. Reading fiction can help us understand the cultural-ecological crisis that we inhabit. In Unsustainable Oil, using the lens of Alberta’s bituminous sands, he asks us to consider literature’s potential to open space for creative alternatives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772120363
ISBN-10: 1772120367
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

Comentariile autorului

10 B&W photographs, 2 maps, bibliography, notes, index

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Prologue / Fast Food VacationIntroduction / Unsustainable Rhetoric1 Lyric Oil / Re-presenting Fossil Fuels As a Cultural By-Product2 Oil Sacrifices / Petroculture and (E)utopian Imaginings of Progress3 Impossible Choices / Fort Mac and Oil as a “Matter of Concern”4 Irrational Oil / Ethos, Extraction!, Elder Brother, and Free Speech5 Pipeline Facts, Poetic Counterfacts / Metaphor and Self-Deception in a Bitumen Nation6 Oil Desires / Appetites and Fast Violence in the Bituminous SandsConclusion / Living (with) BitumenEpilogue / Whitney Lakes Provincial ParkNotes Works Cited Index

Recenzii

"In 1959 Alberta approved a berserk scheme to set off an atomic blast at Fort McMurray, liquefying the oil sands and freeing a trillion barrels of riches. Engineers with U.S.-based Richfield Oil Corp. rated it a 50-50 chance of economic success. Then-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker killed the idea. 'Certainly not,' he said.... Gordon is a talented writer. Unsustainable Oil profiles the Alberta sands as a phenomenon both cursed and celebrated in art and commerce and media.... Unsustainable Oil is pungent and funny and eloquent. It profiles oil sands as a cultural happening that’s driven Canadians to polar opposites. It works."
"[Gordon] proposes that we turn to works of literature (plays, poetry, short stories) as a means of re-imagining the narratives that we tell ourselves about our embeddedness in petroculture.... [He demonstrates] that literature performs not only a necessary diagnostic function (namely, to articulate the environmental and social costs of our dependence on bitumen), but also a vital prognostic function, through which we can begin to restore our understanding of the intimate relations between humans and their environment, and our hope for a post-bitumen future". Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer 2016. [Full review at https://canlit.ca/article/creativecollective-resistance]
Gordon’s agenda is to short-circuit the extremely polarized debate between team oil and team environment by bringing into play not facts and counterfacts alone but the power of narrative, storytelling, theatre, theory, even poetry.... The book is theoretically astute, Gordon’s writing throughout is crystal clear and elegant, and his analysis of texts insightful: this book is an exhilarating and beautiful read. The Goose 2017: Vol. 16 : Iss. 1, Article 4. [Full review at: http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss1/4]
"Unsustainable Oil deserves to be read alongside other excoriations of Alberta's great speculative game, such as Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (2008) by Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, and studies in the emergent field of petrocriticism, such as Stephanie LeMenager's Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014). Oil, with its climate consequences, is a defining environmental concern of our age: it has found an impassioned critic in Jon Gordon." , Western American Literature 52.2, 2017
"At the heart of Gordon’s analysis is the argument that literature performs a ‘downward counterfactual function’—that is to say, that it exposes the grim realities of bitumen extraction—but that in doing so, it also reaffirms the possibilities for other types of futures…. Environmental work is difficult work. It is difficult because of the ways it often conflicts with and runs up against corporate and/or academic interests, and difficult because it must engage with a crisis whose effects are both currently unfolding and as of yet unforetold. Both Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts, and Fictions and Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments take on this challenging work, and in doing so, demonstrate that a rich critical and creative network of humanities-based artists and critics is integral to both eco-critical conversation and ecological action.” Lucia Lorenzi, Canadian Literature, March 2017