04860cam a22006738i 4500 birthofenergyfos00dagg CaSfIA 20260225185949.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 190605s2019 ncua ob 001 0 eng c 2019009526 9781478005018 (hardcover) 1478005017 (hardcover) 9781478006329 (paperback) 1478006323 (paperback) 9781478005346 (ebook) (OCoLC)1153038759 NcD eng rda DLC BDX YDX OCLCO OCLCF CHVBK OCLCO UUM NDD OCLCQ CaSfIA pcc HD9502.A2 D344 2019 333.79 23 Daggett, Cara New, 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019038044 author. The birth of energy : fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work / Cara New Daggett. 1909 Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. 1 online resource (x, 268 pages : illustrations) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Elements Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. Power resources http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 Economic aspects http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005484 History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Power resources http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 Political aspects http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005651 History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Energy consumption http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043129 History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Power resources http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Energy consumption Environmental aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119460 Energy policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043147 Energy industries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043141 Energy consumption. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/909986 Energy consumption Environmental aspects. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/909997 Energy industries. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910110 Energy policy. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910200 Power resources. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1074275 Power resources Economic aspects. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1074294 Power resources Political aspects. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1074327 Politische Wissenschaft. gnd (DE-588)4076229-4 Imperialismus. gnd (DE-588)4026651-5 Energiepolitik. gnd (DE-588)4014715-0 Thermodynamik. gnd (DE-588)4059827-5 Technischer Fortschritt. gnd (DE-588)4059252-2 Rassismus. gnd (DE-588)4076527-1 History. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 Online version: Daggett, Cara New, 1980- Birth of energy. Durham : 2019 9781478006329 (DLC) 2019980864 Elements (Duke University Press) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017150156 https://archive.org/details/birthofenergyfos00dagg Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27422555M Additional information and access via Open Library birthofenergyfos00dagg ark:/13960/t6f26xb3j