Mineral Rites : An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy /

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"The book discusses how the extraction of fossil fuels affects the rituals and artifacts of people's daily lives. The author asks readers to view fossil fuels as an intellectually intriguing topic rather than one better left to engineers. At the core of the book is the argument that energy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Bob (Associate professor) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kapitalismus
Fossiler Brennstoff
Geschichte
Energy consumption > Social aspects.
Combustibles fossiles > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Fossil fuels > Social aspects > United States > History.
Energy consumption > Social aspects > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mineral moment
  • Mineral rites: the embodiment of fossil fuels
  • Carbon's social history: a chunk of coal from the 1912 RMS Titanic
  • Energy slaves: the technological imaginary of the fossil economy
  • Fossilized mobility: a phenomenology of the modern road (with Lewis and Clark)
  • Coal TV: the hyperreal mineral frontier
  • Carbon culture: how to read a novel in light of climate change
  • Carbon's temporality and the structure of feeling.

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