Name: The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Elements) (en Inglés)
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Author: Cara New Daggett
ISBN: 9781478006329

portada The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Elements) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press Books

Autor

Cara New Daggett

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781478006329

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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Elements) (en Inglés)

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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.