Meanings
- uncountableThose aspects of capitalism that involve the petrochemical industry.
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 1003 more examples
For the purpose of better understanding the ensuing discussion in this chapter, petrocapitalism is said to operate successfully through an intertwined oil complex “that is territorially constituted through oil concessions”.
2013, Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres, Sophal Ear -, The Hungry Dragon, page 27While geography of extractive petrocapitalism is focused on specific points in space – what Gavin Bridge (2010, 1) calls the geographies of “the hole” – consumptive petrocapitalism is dispersed and virtually includes the entirety of capitalism itself.
2017, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, International Encyclopedia of GeographyThe ‘debate’ on climate change, where it is not a simple conspiracy of petrocapitalism, is characterised by this computational inability to deal with uncertainty.
2018, James Bridle, “Computation”, in The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 44
Origin
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