Lucas Well, Spindletop Oil Field, Beaumont, Texas. From William B. Phillips, Texas Petroleum: Bulletin of the University of Texas No. 5; The University of Texas Mineral Survey Bulletin No. 1, July 1901 (Austin: The University of Texas, 1901), n. p.

Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00pm
Lecture
934 Schermerhorn Hall

Reinhold Martin, an Extractive Media working group member and historian of architecture and media, presents a lecture on oil’s value in terms of its use as well as its utility. As a member at the Center for Comparative Media, the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, and the Committee of Social Thought, as well as former the chair of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Martin’s latest venture into the medium of oil is sure to be of interest to any and all working in the social sciences.

Lecture response by Extractive Media project co-director Zeynep Çelik Alexander.