> A petrocritic may be someone looking to say something about texts about oil; she may also be looking for oil in cultural places where it is otherwise unspoken or unspeakable, at once too close, too far, and too immense to be immediately perceptible; and she may be looking, in fictions, for the profoundly uneven distribution of oil’s benefits and consequences to peoples and territories around the globe.
> #AmitavGhosh coined.. “#petrofiction”..1992
https://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/petro
#PetroCritic
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my small #review (RO) #petrofiction #romania #energy #imagination

"Education and Petro-fiction: Petrolache Făt Frumos"(=Petrolicious ?! dunno how one could or if one should translate the name), a #Romanian 1962 pop sci book by Viorica Huber, #illustrated by Liviu Ghigorț.

https://liniaverde.substack.com/p/educatie-si-petrofictiune-petrolache

thx
@engineeredd

Educație și Petroficțiune: Petrolache Făt Frumos

de Viorica Huber, cu ilustrații de Liviu Ghigorț (1962)

Linia Verde