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In which appropriative signification (co-opting language of protest) is being used as a tactic to maintain fossil fuel dependency. Mixed up with petro-masculinity, white patriarchy, and microfascism. Language such as "black lives matter" reformulated into "oil lives matter", and that fossil fuel usage is doing your patriotic duty, further overlaid with messages of white supremacy and racism and claims of victimization and "woke" agendas. Dystopian tactics but also perhaps indications of defensiveness from a dying industry. 19/ #365papers Oil, life, and everyday fossil fascism: appropriative signification in U.S. petroleum supremacy https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae055/7950795