TY - BOOK ID - 48298519 TI - The birth of energy : fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work PY - 2019 SN - 1478006323 1478090006 9781478006329 PB - Durham, NC Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Power resources KW - Energy consumption KW - Energy policy. KW - Energy industries. KW - Economic aspects KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Industries KW - Energy and state KW - State and energy KW - Industrial policy KW - Energy conservation KW - Energy KW - Energy resources KW - Power supply KW - Natural resources KW - Energy harvesting KW - Energy industries KW - Consumption of energy KW - Energy efficiency KW - Fuel consumption KW - Fuel efficiency KW - Government policy KW - Political Science KW - Public Policy/Environmental Policy KW - Nature KW - Environmental Conservation & Protection UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298519 AB - 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. ER -