Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market design fiction is revived with unbounded imagination

is revived with unbounded imagination and lively reading

and law in the pursuit of justice and accountability

Bremen/Summer by Ben Cain

researcher Design 2003–2004

Yunie Chae (KR)

Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market design fiction is revived with unbounded imaginationThis expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and