The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Daggett, Cara New

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

In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back...
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Author: Cara New Daggett
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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Daggett, Cara New

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

$96.65

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

$96.65
Author: Cara New Daggett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Cara New Daggett
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/13/2019
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781478006329

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

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