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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface - From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction -- Chapter 1 - To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in Ice -- Chapter 2 - The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal Alaska -- Chapter 3 - Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil Interests -- Chapter 4 - Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland's Resource Zones -- Chapter 5 - Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic Iron -- Chapter 6 - Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas Project -- Chapter 7 - Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in Siberia -- Chapter 8 - Representation without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry -- Afterword - Arctic Abstractions -- Index.

AbstractShifts in the terrain of energy politics have given rise to consultant experts who produce and distribute knowledge of energy futures. Drawing on fieldwork at executive roundtables in global cities across North America, this essay examines the consolidation of this form of expertise and the opulent settings in which it is distributed. By exploring the role of aesthetic judgement in market‐orientated decision‐making, it contributes to anthropological work on elites, expertise, and energy ethics by highlighting the relationship between credibility and luxury. The essay also considers the enrolment of the expert in a kind of virtue ethics, whereby adherence to neoclassical economic principles is taken to be a character trait worthy of emulation. While clients may not look to consultants for advice coded in terms of ethics, I argue that they regard the person‐based qualities of consultants as proxies for their ability to recommend a judicious course of action. By adopting this analytic, the essay sheds new light on the confidence that clients place in consultants by drawing out the relationship between depersonalized, quantitative approaches to energy markets and the virtue of the persons who propose them.

Preface.--Chronological table.--Documents relating to the mission of St. Augustine and his companions.--Oman, C. W. The political outlook of Europe in 597.--The editor. The mission of Augustine and his companions.--Hughes, T. McK. The landing-place of St. Augustine.--Wilson, H. A. On some liturgical points relating to the mission of St. Augustine. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Preface.--Chronological table.--Documents relating to the mission of St Augustine and his companions.--The political outlook of Europe in 597. By C. W. Oman.--The mission of Augustine and his companions. By the editor.--The landing-place of St Augustine. By T. McK. Hughes.--On some liturgical points relating to the mission of St Augustine. By the Rev. H. A. Wilson. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle EastProposes a new research agenda for the study of oil's varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle EastIncludes 13 case studies, including 2 photo essays by leading artists and designersTakes a thematic approach to promote interdisciplinary thinkingPresents contributions from leading historians and anthropologists, world-renown artists, curators and designers, and younger scholars who are developing an outstanding research portfolio on oilThis volume explores the ways petroleum as an industry and substance has moulded the social, cultural and artistic life of the Middle East. Rather than tackle the powers of this crucial resource from the perspective of macro-economics, impersonal rentier states and large corporations, this book 'brings oil back' into the ebbs and flows of Middle Eastern life. It focuses on the ways petroleum mediates and is mediated by national formations and imaginaries, visual practices, as well as scientific, business and artistic production. In focusing on the largest oil producing and exporting region in the world, this volume sheds light on the effects and affects of petroleum's presence within and beyond the oil-industry.Part 1 – Exposing Oil sets out the main themes through which oil is analysed in the volume (visibility, experience, representation and mediation). Part 2 – Oil Images deals with image making by the oil industry (as graphs, aerial photographs and promotional media) and by artists and designers who have engaged with, and commented on, oil's presence in the region. Part 3 – Oil Subjects focuses on the production of (oil) subjecthood and the formation of oil knowledge