petroculture en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From petro- + culture.
Meanings
-
(countable, uncountable) A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
For scholars such as Macdonald, among others discussed in this chapter, contemporary culture is a petroculture, where fossil fuels have shaped the character and form of the modern (Buell 2012; LeMenager 2012; Wilson and Pendakis 2012; Barrett and Worden 2014; Szeman and Boyer 2017).
2017, Derek Gladwin, Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities:This essay addresses the sight of petroculture, which is to say it examines how the global oil industry is represented, and how this, in turn, conditions vision.
2017, Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, Imre Szeman, Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, page 222:Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.
2019, Kyle Devine, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, page 100:From a vantage point twenty years hence, as the study of petroculture and petrofiction develops, the question remains pressing: why is it that this mineral, utterly pervasive in the everyday lives of people in developed economies, remains mostly "offshore" in social and cultural consciousness, surfacing now and again in the wake of foreign wars, gas price hikes, or Gulf-of-Mexico-type disasters?
2012 March-April, Graeme Macdonald, “Oil and world literature”, in American Book Review, volume 33, number 3:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| petrocultures | Number=Plur | lexicographic |