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3-2 | Special Issue | Sighting Oil | Table of Contents

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Full Issue PDF Imaginations 3-2 Sighting Oil Guest Editors Andrew Pendakis and Sheena Wilson Table of Contents Sight, Site, Cite : Oil in the Field of Vision By Andrew Pendakis and Sheena Wilson This is Not a Pipeline: Thoughts on the Politico-Aesthetics of Oil By Ursula Biemann and Andrew Pendakis Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto By Warren Cariou  Read More

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This is Not a Pipeline: Thoughts on the Politico-Aesthetics of Oil

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Ursula Biemann | University of the Arts Zurich Andrew Pendakis | University of Alberta ABSTRACT: This piece is a dialogue between Andrew Pendakis and video artist Ursula Biemann. In it they attempt to work through questions pertaining to the aesthetics of petroculture: How can one represent oil? Is there a generalized aesthetics of oil? What are the linkages  Read More

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Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 |Table of Contents Warren Cariou | University of Manitoba ABSTRACT: This essay attempts to make visible the physical reality of the Athabasca oil sands mining developments in Canada, a reality that has been occluded by corporate and governmental disinformation as well as by citizens’ unwillingness to face the consequences of their actions and their inaction.  By presenting photographs  Read More

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Unconventional Oil and the Gift of the Undulating Peak

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Allan Stoekl | Pennsylvania State University ABSTRACT: In the first part of this essay, I consider why the discussion over the likelihood of imminent “peak oil” has faded from public view in the last few years. I suggest that, due to the decline in demand (due to the recession) and the development of “unconventional” natural gas and oil sources, the “cost” of fuels has passed from the obvious rise in price to that of another dimension  Read More

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Oil Imag(e)inaries: Critical Realism and the Oil Sands

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Imre Szeman | University of Alberta Maria Whiteman | University of Alberta ABSTRACT: This photo-essay constitutes an initial attempt to map out the forces and dynamics of capital at work in Fort McMurray, Alberta—a primary site of global oil extraction and a space that is now at the heart of the contemporary Canadian economy; it does so through the practice of ‘critical realism’ advocated by artist and critic Allan Sekula.  Read More

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Everything’s Gone Green: The Environment of BP’s Narrative

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Peter Hitchcock | City University of New York ABSTRACT: This essay looks at a particularly galling phenomenon for environmentalism, the “green” globalism of an oil conglomerate.  Rather than simply dismiss such gestures as corporate cynicism, the paper suggests that one might usefully pay attention to the narrative modes at stake in these initiatives which here connect the exploitation of modernity  Read More

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A Scale That Exceeds Us: The BP Gulf Spill footage and Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Lance Duerfahrd | Purdue University ABSTRACT: Our fascination with the surveillance video of oil gushing from the British Petroleum Gulf Spill in 2010 expresses a paradox: our ultimate irrelevance to technological progress apparently undertaken for our benefit, in our name, and in response to our demand.  Read More

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Reframing the Canadian Oil Sands

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Merle Patchett | University of Bristol Curatorial Essay Andriko J. Lozowy | University of Alberta Photographs and Creative Text ABSTRACT: “Reframing the Canadian Oil Sands” is a collaborative exchange between photographer Andriko Lozowy and cultural geographer Merle Patchett that engages photography and photographic theory to evoke a more critical and politically meaningful visual engagement  Read More

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Rethinking Bitumen: from “Bullshit” to a “Matter of Concern”

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Jonathan Gordon | University of Alberta ABSTRACT: What is the current state of discourse about bitumen and how might it be changed? Philosopher Harry Frankfurt defines “bullshit” as any attempt at persuasion that is “unconnected to a concern with the truth” (Frankfurt). By looking at a variety of recent examples from the debates over bitumen extraction, “Rethinking Bitumen” argues that these debates  Read More

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The New Topographics, Dark Ecology, and the Energy Infrastructure of Nations: Considering Agency in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky and Mitch Epstein from a Post-Anarchist Perspective

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Imaginations | 3-2 | Table of Contents Michael Truscello | Mount Royal University ABSTRACT: Edward Burtynsky’s  Read More

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The World Before Her, Reviewed by Shazia Javed

The World Before Her. Documentary/90 minutes/English, Hindi Directed by: Nisha Pahuja. Country: Canada Review by Shazia Javed It is a well-known saying that India is a country which lives in several centuries at the same time. It is on this peculiarity of the Indian society that The World Before Her casts a feminist eye. On [...]

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Stealing the Image 3-1

3-1 | Special Dossier: Stealing the Image | Table of Contents

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Coming Spring 2013 | 4-1 |

Special Issue: Scandals of Horror

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Do images of horror generate documents, or do they create works of art? — Les images horrifiques ne sont-elles que documentaires, ou peuvent-elles également devenir artistiques?

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Coming Fall 2013 | 4-2

Special Issue | Media Mothers Matters

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On the the representations of motherhood in the media. — Sur les représentations médiatiques de la maternité.

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