Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy

Bob Johnson

256 pages, parution le 25/03/2019

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An audacious revision to the history of modernity, Mineral Rites shows how fossil fuels operate at the level of infrapolitics and how they permeate life as second nature.Spanning the past two hundred years, this book offers an alternative history of modernity that restores to fossil fuels their central role in the growth of capitalism and modernity itself, including the emotional attachments and real injuries that they generate and command. Everything about us-our bodies, minds, sense of self, nature, reason, and faith-has been conditioned by a global infrastructure of carbon flows that saturates our habits, thoughts, and practices. And it is that deep energy infrastructure that provides material for the imagination and senses and even shapes our expectations about what it means to be fully human in the twenty-first century. In Mineral Rites, Bob Johnson illustrates that fossil fuels are embodied today not only in the morning commute and in home HVAC systems but in the everyday textures, rituals, architecture, and artifacts of modern life. In a series of illuminating essays touching on such disparate topics as hot yoga, electric robots, automobility, the RMS Titanic, reality TV, and the modern novel, Johnson takes the discussion of fossil fuels and their role in climate change far beyond the traditional domains of policy and economics into the deepest layers of the body, ideology, and psyche. An audacious revision to the history of modernity, Mineral Rites shows how fossil fuels operate at the level of infrapolitics and how they permeate life as second nature.Preface. A Postcard from the Birthplace of OilAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Mineral Moment1. Mineral Rites: The Embodiment of Fossil Fuels2. Carbon's Social History: A Chunk of Coal from the 1912 RMS Titanic 3. Energy Slaves: The Technological Imaginary of the Fossil Economy 4. Fossilized Mobility: A Phenomenology of the Modern Road (with Lewis and Clark) 5. Coal TV: The Hyperreal Mineral Frontier 6. Carbon Culture: How to Read a Novel in Light of Climate Change Epilogue. Carbon's Temporality and the Structure of Feeling Notes Bibliography IndexBob Johnson is the chair of the Department of Social Sciences and a professor of history at National University. He is the author of Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture.

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Éditeur(s)	HOPKINS
Auteur(s)	Bob Johnson
Parution	25/03/2019
Nb. de pages	256
EAN13	9781421427560

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