Pipepoetics and the Infrastructures of Circulation
Susanne Strätling – 2024
Energy Humanities have firmly established "petropoetics" as a pivotal term of modern literary studies for mapping the global flows of fossil fuels through eco-critical readings of world literature. However, the infrastructures of these circulations have largely been overlooked. Among the various means of transportation that poetics leverages, the pipeline takes precedence in its double capacity as a technical system for energy circulation and symbolic device of transcultural communication. Based on the hybrid modality of the pipeline, this insight proposes the concept of "pipepoetics" as a new tool of analysis in literary and media studies.
How to cite:
Susanne Strätling. "Pipepoetics and the Infrastructures of Circulation." Articulations: Circulation, edited by Jasmin Wrobel, Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Till Kadritzke, and Alexandra Ksenofontova (March 2024). https://articulations.temporal-communities.de/contributions/pipepoetics-and-infrastructures-of-circulation/.