Mineral rites : an archaeology of the fossil economy / Bob Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Bob (Associate professor), author.

Series:

Energy humanities.

Energy humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy consumption--Social aspects--United States--History.

Energy consumption.

Fossil fuels--Social aspects--United States--History.

Fossil fuels.

Energy consumption--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The book discusses how the extraction of fossil fuels affects the rituals and artifacts of people's daily lives. The author asks readers to view fossil fuels as an intellectually intriguing topic rather than one better left to engineers. At the core of the book is the argument that energy consumption severs consumers from the production of carboniferous fuels and the waste they create. The book will interest scholars of American studies and environmental history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The mineral moment

Mineral rites: the embodiment of fossil fuels

Carbon's social history: a chunk of coal from the 1912 RMS Titanic

Energy slaves: the technological imaginary of the fossil economy

Fossilized mobility: a phenomenology of the modern road (with Lewis and Clark)

Coal TV: the hyperreal mineral frontier

Carbon culture: how to read a novel in light of climate change

Carbon's temporality and the structure of feeling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421427560

1421427567

OCLC:

1057753823

Publisher Number:

40028945635