Book ID: CBB321042329

Digital Oil: Machineries of Knowing (2022)

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Eric Monteiro (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 228
Language: English

Digitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic conversation today, calling into question how we work and how we know. In Digital Oil, Eric Monteiro uses the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry as a lens to investigate the effects of digitalization on embodied labor and, in doing so, shows how our use of new digital technology transforms work and knowing. For years, roughnecks have performed the dangerous and unwieldy work of extracting the oil that lies three miles below the seabed along the Norwegian continental shelf. Today, the Norwegian oil industry is largely digital, operated by sensors and driven by data. Digital representations of physical processes inform work practices and decision-making with remotely operated, unmanned deep-sea facilities. Drawing on two decades of in-depth interviews, observations, news clips, and studies of this industry, Monteiro dismantles the divide between the virtual and the physical in Digital Oil. What is gained or lost when objects and processes become algorithmic phenomena with the digital inferred from the physical? How can data-driven work practices and operational decision-making approximate qualitative interpretation, professional judgement, and evaluation? How are emergent digital platforms and infrastructures, as machineries of knowing, enabling digitalization? In answering these questions Monteiro offers a novel analysis of digitalization as an effort to press the limits of quantification of the qualitative.

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Authors & Contributors
Mintz, André
Ross Barrett
Lukyanova, Olga
Jessica Pykett
Jenny Gregory
Casini, Silvia
Concepts
Data collection; methods
Oil; natural gas
Petroleum industry
Technology and industry
Digital technologies
Visualization
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Norway
Denmark
Africa
Perth (Western Australia)
Kuwait
Gulf of Mexico
Institutions
University of Aberdeen
ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
International Business Machines Corporation
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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