Petrofictions
Volume 33, Number 3
March-April 2012
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Imre Szeman’s “Introduction to Focus: Petrofictions”
Warren Cariou reviews Allan Stoekl’s Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability
Marija Cetinic and Jeff Diamanti review Jeanne-Claude and Christo in “Monumental Oil”
Maria Whiteman reviews Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Graeme Macdonald in “Oil and World Literature”
Sheena Wilson reviews Ezra Levant’s Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands
Brent Bellamy reviews Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming
Zach Blas reviews Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Jennifer Wenzel reviews Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
Melody Jue reviews Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler’s Oil and Water
Imre Szeman reviews Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil
Daniel Worden reviews Teddy Wayne’s Kapitoil
Janet Stewart reviews Gustav Meyrink’s (Translated by Mike Mitchell, ed.) “Petroleum, Petroleum”
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