...Ellen McLarney Mechanization of human life is the main subject of the oil novel, a genre that charts the explosion of industrial production in the remote regions of the earth. One of the products of this process is a nostalgic vision of nature, imagined as an untouched, utopian paradise. Agrarian...

... it to Russia’s political economy. The oil curse is a self-imposed condition, a contingent political process that depends on unique choices of authorities and the population. The oil curse does not determine Russia’s arrested development; it only provides conditions that are eagerly used by the group in power...

... on the left have given for the invasion have not fully plumbed the motivations for this state of affairs. From nar- row gunboat diplomacy and conspiracy theories about corporate cabals to Malthusian oil shortages, they move to more serious analyses, including the imperative for U.S. control (present...

... painting by Denis helps us here. In 1906, while visiting Cézanne at Aix, or soon after, he made a rough oil sketch of A Visit to the House of Cézanne in Aix (Figure 11). As a painting, it is no more postimpressionist, or even impressionist, than John Singer Sargent’s 1885 picture of Monet at his...

.... troops with garlands. They speak gingerly only when it comes to oil and the ‘‘occupied territories The dreaded ‘‘O’’ word is rarely used. Instead, they warn that the ‘‘Gulf’’ is vital to the security of America. And they write whole books such as What Went Wrong? sup- posedly to address the question...

... a fraught issue, inescapably tinged with what might be thought of as white-on-white Orientalism. Critic and journalist Rachel Polonsky reports that Russian oil billionaire-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now serving an eight-year Siberian 33. For an elaboration of this argument...

...- spheric roots forty-some­ years before. Gathering tawdry palm frond weav- ings handcrafted rote deployment without going into details. Libelously Booker’s Guiana for British interest in sugar having its oil coast adjudicated by the United Nations otherwise honestly situated outside the first world...

... militarization of society and labor.27 Since the industrial revolution, the capitalism/state bond has existed particularly over energy industries: coal, oil, and nuclear power. The age of coal brought about the labor movement, and with it came general strikes in many industrial sectors, owing...

... installation of “the cave”—what could properly be called the cin-­anthropocene epoch, particularly given that the era of modern cinema is to be regarded merely as an episode: that of the machinal exteriorization of the cinematic appa- ratus, given that it coincides with the era of oil (artefacted...

... Gaddafi a clever, leftist, nationalist figure. Looking at the change of his cap, we know this is the person. Lau Kin Chi: The color of the cap changing from red to green? Samir Amin: Ye s, childish. In spite of all that, he achieved a number of things with oil revenue. The rights...

... professor of literature at the University of Split, Croatia. He has published recently or has forthcoming work on Deleuze and Shakespeare, the Greek genealogy of Anthropocene waste, and oil capitalism horror fiction. Christian Thorne is professor of English at Williams College and the author of The Novel...

... Journal on Regulation 33 , no. 547 : 547 – 602 . Vinsel Lee . 2015 . “ Snake Oil for the Innovation Age: Christensen, Forbes, and the Problem with Disruption .” Taming the American Idol (blog) , September 16 , 2015 . http://leevinsel.com/blog/2015/9/16/snake-oil-for-the-innovation-age...

... of the West will turn the other cheek and kick his black brother in the jaw so hard that all his bloody broken teeth will seed the earth and popup as well-oiled machine guns, spraying death on vermin called Men. ‘‘The Son of God went forth to War, a kingly crown to gain; only he was twins, he...

...   ➢ the oil fields of northern africa and the lithium mines of afghanistan   ➢ the flood of black and brown people seeping between prison bars   ➢ the coke brothers controlling the flow through the holes in michael brown’s murder, i see:   ➢ the GMO CEO of mon-­san-­to   ➢ the gazans stripped...

..., is not his colorless hat, but rather his raised hands, Tseng 2002.9.12 07:31 162 boundary 2 / Fall 2002 once more clamoring in a mute cry, oh sad tropics. over the oil...

.... Plantlike, she’s stretching then contracting on the ground. Ban is the weakest thing: the veins of an ivy leaf distended and pale green against the darker bed, a plastic tube poking out of the gutter, some oil drops touching each other, undispersed, despite the rain. “A ghost makes a click...

.... “500 Canadian firms sold $2.5 billion of war materials (ammunition, napalm, aircraft engines and explosives) to the Pentagon. Another $10 billion in food, beverages, berets, and boots for the troops was exported to the U.S., as well as nickel, copper, lead, brass and oil...

... or a method of preparing lakes or the pliant application of arms to a row. This body faces you with a knot of a face made of alum or lye and wet with linseed oils folding a glance into a fist-­sized thing to be pocketed by the bystander. Collecting the toe, collecting the finger nail, the hanging thing...