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

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

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Author / Creator:	Daggett, Cara New, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Elements Elements (Duke University Press)
Subject:	Power resources -- Economic aspects -- History. Power resources -- Political aspects -- History. Energy consumption -- History. Power resources -- History. Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects. Energy policy. Energy industries. Energy consumption. Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects. Energy industries. Energy policy. Power resources. Power resources -- Economic aspects. Power resources -- Political aspects. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11937522

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ISBN:	9781478005018 1478005017 9781478006329 1478006323 9781478005346
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:	Online version: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- Birth of energy. Durham : 2019 9781478006329

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