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The birth of energy : fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work / Cara New Daggett.
Lippincott Library HD9502.A2 D344 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daggett, Cara New, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Elements (Duke University Press)
- Elements
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power resources--Economic aspects--History.
- Power resources.
- Power resources--Political aspects--History.
- Energy consumption--History.
- Energy consumption.
- Power resources--History.
- Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
- Energy policy.
- Energy industries.
- Power resources--Economic aspects.
- Power resources--Political aspects.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work--most notably, the veneration of waged work--will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled"---- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Putting the world to work
- The birth of energy
- The novelty of energy
- A steampunk production
- A geo-theology of energy
- Work becomes energetic
- Energy, race, and empire
- Energopolitics
- The imperial organism at work
- Education for empire
- A post-work energy politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- Birth of energy.
- ISBN:
- 9781478005018
- 1478005017
- 9781478006329
- 1478006323
- OCLC:
- 1073103263
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