petroculture

English

Etymology 1

petro- +‎ culture

Noun

petroculture (countable and uncountable, plural petrocultures)

1. A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
   • 2012 March-April, Graeme Macdonald, “Oil and world literature”, in American Book Review, volume 33, number 3:

     From a vantage point twenty years hence, as the study of petroculture and petrofiction develops, the question remains pressing: why is it that this mineral, utterly pervasive in the everyday lives of people in developed economies, remains mostly "offshore" in social and cultural consciousness, surfacing now and again in the wake of foreign wars, gas price hikes, or Gulf-of-Mexico-type disasters?

   • 2017, Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, Imre Szeman, Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, page 222:

     This essay addresses the sight of petroculture, which is to say it examines how the global oil industry is represented, and how this, in turn, conditions vision.

   • 2017, Derek Gladwin, Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities:

     For scholars such as Macdonald, among others discussed in this chapter, contemporary culture is a petroculture, where fossil fuels have shaped the character and form of the modern (Buell 2012; LeMenager 2012; Wilson and Pendakis 2012; Barrett and Worden 2014; Szeman and Boyer 2017).

   • 2019, Kyle Devine, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, page 100:

     Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.

Etymology 2

Blend of petro- +‎ agriculture

Noun

petroculture (uncountable)

1. The cultivation of crops that can be processed into products that currently require the use of petrochemicals.
   • 1977, American men & women of science: Consultants 1977, page 657:

     Res: Inorganic and organic compounds of vanadium; diazo compounds; chemical and microbiological tests for vitamins; feeding and agronomie value of fermentation products: insect repellents; marketing amino acids; physiology of egg production; industrial wastes; petroculture crops: nutritional value of ethanol; oxidation-reduction potential in the rumen.

   • 1979, The Cattleman - Volume 66, page 90:

     Petroculture is like agriculture, except that plants are grown to be processed into fuels, plastics, building materials and other replacements for nonrenewable resources.