{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"260 - Pipeline Cinema (feat. Mona Damluji)","description":" Your cohosts\u2019 electric&amp;nbsp;summer adventure has brought them to Thailand! Dominic wonders if he will be allowed to eat Thai spicy food and Cymene reports about feeding baby elephants. Then (13:44) we welcome Mona Damluji to the podcast to discuss her new book, Pipeline Cinema:  The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq  (U California Press, 2025)  available as open access and paperback.  We begin with how Mona discovered her own great grandfather in the archive of oil\u2019s cultural workers. Then we turn to the entangled histories of Iran, Iraq and Anglo-American petroimperialism. Mona tells us about how the physical infrastructure of oil impacted the cultural infrastructure of filmmaking in the region, how the oil industry sought to make itself inevitable to the story of modernization, the life stories of the culture workers themselves and much, much more. We close with a discussion of the enduring allure of petromodernity. Check out  Sanaz Sohrabi's incredible films here:  https:\/\/www.sanaz-sohrabi.com\/.  And please also check out Mona\u2019s  children\u2019s books on collective action, war and displacement,  Together  and  I Want You to Know.  Hang in there, everyone, peace and love. ","author_name":"Cultures of Energy","author_url":"https:\/\/cenhs.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42215595\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/204471610"}