The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work - Couverture rigide

Daggett, Cara New

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478005017 ISBN 13 : 9781478005018

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cara New Daggett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478005017
• ISBN 13: 9781478005018
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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