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

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dc.contributor.authorDaggett, Cara Newen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-23T12:27:32Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-23T12:27:32Zen
dc.date.issued2019-08en
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
dc.description.notesIncludes bibliographical references and index.en
dc.description.sponsorshipPublication of this book was supported by Virginia Tech through the TOME Open Monograph Initiative.en
dc.description.tableofcontentsPutting 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.en
dc.format.extent268 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/epub+zipen
dc.identifier.isbn9781478005346en
dc.identifier.isbn9781478005018en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/93233en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesElementsen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subject.lccHD9502.A2 D344 2019en
dc.subject.lcshPower resources--Economic aspects--Historyen
dc.subject.lcshPower resources--Political aspects--Historyen
dc.subject.lcshEnergy consumption--Historyen
dc.subject.lcshPower resources--Historyen
dc.subject.lcshEnergy consumption--Environmental aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshEnergy policyen
dc.subject.lcshEnergy industriesen
dc.titleThe Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Worken
dc.typeBooken
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