Description: Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work, Paperback by Daggett, Cara New, ISBN 1478006323, ISBN-13 9781478006329, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Public Policy / Energy Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Power Resources / General, Industries / Energy, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Cara New Daggett
Series: Elements Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
