An Introduction to Peak Oil Philosophy - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Although Peak Oil is usually thought of as only concerning the mundane empirical question of how much petroleum remains to be discovered and put to use, Haag argues that the set of hermeneutical distortions called Transcendental Oil exert a subtle but overwhelmingly powerful influence on contemporary human thought, effectively causing every object which appears to share in petroleum’s structural characteristics of explosive growth, guaranteed surpluses, constant change, and the pursuit of newness for its own sake. The Deep Meme of Fossil Fuel Progress that structures human thought to conform to the abstract shape of the Ascending Arrow is, however, just one of five major Deep Memes identified in history, along with the Hunter Gatherer Level Plane, Nomadic Set, Agrarian Circle, and Salvage Bell Curve. Haag provides his most complete and comprehensive analysis of the theories of Peak Oil Philosophy and Linguistification to date through exploring sources as diverse as woke Hollywood remakes, bizarre recent news stories, X Men comic books, Native American Mythology, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Honoré de Balzac’s Human Comedy, and the post-collapse novels of John Michael Greer and James Howard Kunstler.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.