As humanity continues to consume planetary resources at an
unsustainable rate, we require not only new and renewable forms of
energy but also new ways of understanding energy itself. Clayton
Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across
a number of leading-edge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary
philosophies of New Materialism, non-Western traditions, and the
sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a
material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and
religion. Crockett argues that change is foundational to material
reality, which is ceaselessly self-organizing. We can observe
energy's effects in the operations of natural selection as well as
those at work in human societies. Matter and energy are not an
oppositional binary; rather, they are expressions of how change
functions in the universe. Ultimately, Crockett argues, we can
conceive of God neither as a deity nor as a being but as the
principle of change. Informed by cutting-edge theoretical
discourses in thermodynamics, science studies, energy humanities,
systems theory, continental philosophy, and radical theology,
Energy and Change draws on theorists such as Gilles Deleuze,
Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Zizek, Karen Barad, Bruno Latour, and
Kojin Karatani as well as ideas about spirituality, society, and
nature from Amerindian, Vodou, and Neo-Confucian traditions. A
foundational work in New Materialist philosophy of religion, this
book offers compelling new insights into the structure of the
cosmos and our place in it.
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