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oapen-20.500.12657-240472024-03-22T19:23:14Z The Birth of Energy Daggett, Cara New Political Science Public Policy/Environmental Policy Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment 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. 2019-11-08 09:10:25 2020-04-01T09:37:18Z 2020-04-01T09:37:18Z 2019 book 1006086 OCN: 1135847783 9781478006329 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24047 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478090007-web.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-birth-of-energy Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090007 10.1215/9781478090007 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478006329 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 280 Durham, NC 2019-11-08 09:07:59, Funded by Virginia Tech: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) open access
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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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