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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Bob (Associate professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Energy consumption > Social aspects > United States > History.
Fossil fuels > Social aspects > United States > History.
Combustibles fossiles > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General
Energy consumption > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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