Petroculture

Quick meaning: Petroculture is a noun meaning A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.

Meaning

A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.

More Meanings

1. The cultivation of crops that can be processed into products that currently require the use of petrochemicals.

Example Sentences

Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.

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.

Petroculture is like agriculture, except that plants are grown to be processed into fuels, plastics, building materials and other replacements for nonrenewable resources.

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).

Word Forms

• petrocultures

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include petrocapitalism, petromodernity, oilocracy, petro-dictator, petro-dictatorship, petrolism.

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