The birth of energy: fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work

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Titel: The birth of energy : fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work

Beteiligte: Daggett, Cara New [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2019

Umfang: x, 268 Seiten; Illustrationen

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9781478006329; 9781478005018

RVK-Notation: MF 9150 : Umwelt- und Energiepolitik

Schlagwörter: Energiewirtschaft > Energiepolitik > Energievorrat > Thermodynamik > Industrialisierung > Politische Ökonomie > Imperialismus > Politische Wissenschaft > Geschichte

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Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

Beschreibung: 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.

"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

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