Nettsider med emneord «Oil»
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In this talk, Graeme Macdonald, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies (University of Warwick, UK), discusses how aesthetic signatures around the (in)visibility of oil apply to the aesthetics of contemporary energy transition and its representation in sound, screen and image. He explores these themes in two short films: Stephen Hurrel’s 2012 “Dead Reckoning” and Emily Richardson’s 2005 “Petrolia”.
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In this talk, Darren Dochuk, Professor of history at the University of Notre Dame (US), reflects on the relationship between petroleum, politics, and religion in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, as well as investigating the continuing effects of this period on the energy sector today.
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In this talk, Anne Gjelsvik, Professor of Film Studies at NTNU, examines how the capsizing of the Alexander Kielland oil platform is represented in Makta and considers the emotional impact of the blurred translation of the actual incident into the TV series’ realm of playful criticism of men in power.
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What can the medium of photography contribute to our understanding of industrial whaling’s first oil age, and maybe to our relationship to our present mineral age? Espen Ytreberg, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, will give a talk based on his recent research on Norwegian whaling.
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What do we mean when we say and think "after oil"? In this talk Graeme Macdonald, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick (UK), will examine a range of literary and artistic examples constituting a significant expression of petroculture: the post-oil imaginary.