Petromodernity

Quick meaning: Petromodernity is a noun meaning Those aspects of modern times that are dependent on and shaped by the availability of oil.

Meaning

Those aspects of modern times that are dependent on and shaped by the availability of oil.

Example Sentences

After all, they embody petromodernity in almost every way, from their masculinist stereotyping to their fossil-fueled metabolism. Trucks would seem to be a survival of petromodernity rather than a signal of its end.

But I like the honesty of literary critic Stephanie LeMenager, who concludes that we love oil petromodernity – and the world it brings us – theater, movies, books, plastics, air conditioning, central heat, air travel.

While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary — to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just as a genre but as a periodizing gesture of "petromodernity" — it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include petroculture, petrocapitalism, modernity, protomodernity, oilocracy, technopolitics.

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