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 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...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Putting 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.