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The Birth of Energy
Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
Taschenbuch von Cara New Daggett
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Cara New Daggett
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Putting the World to Work 1
Part I. The Birth of Energy
1. The Novelty of Energy 15
2. A Steampunk Production 33
3. A Geo-Theology of Energy 51
4. Work Becomes Energetic 83
Part II. Energy, Race, and Empire
5. Energopolitics 107
6. The Imperial Organism at Work 132
7. Education for Empire 162
Conclusion. A Post-Work Energy Politics 187
Notes 207
Bibliography 239
Index 255
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478006329
ISBN-10: 1478006323
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Daggett, Cara New
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Cara New Daggett
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2019
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 115016924
Über den Autor
Cara New Daggett
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Putting the World to Work 1
Part I. The Birth of Energy
1. The Novelty of Energy 15
2. A Steampunk Production 33
3. A Geo-Theology of Energy 51
4. Work Becomes Energetic 83
Part II. Energy, Race, and Empire
5. Energopolitics 107
6. The Imperial Organism at Work 132
7. Education for Empire 162
Conclusion. A Post-Work Energy Politics 187
Notes 207
Bibliography 239
Index 255
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478006329
ISBN-10: 1478006323
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Daggett, Cara New
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Cara New Daggett
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2019
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 115016924
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