Lecture 1. Capitalism Landscapes: The Infrastructures of Exploitation

The focus of this lecture is on how, since the 19th century, oil companies, representing powerful economic interests, have influenced governments, encouraged wars, driven / sustained totalitarian regimes, until finally transforming cities and landscapes. The elements that make up these new built spaces will be studied. Petroleum infrastructures for extraction, refining, storage and transportation changed landscapes and created new cities. This lecture will present the relationship between extraction and refining plants with train stations and ports, as well as the impact that thousands of kilometers of pipelines have on the natural and urban landscape.


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