The question of energy is among the most vital for the future of
humanity and the flourishing of life on this planet. Yet, only very
rarely (if at all) do we ask what energy is, what it means, what
ends it serves, and how it is related to actuality, meaning-making,
and instrumentality. Energy Dreams interrogates the ontology of
energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to
the current practice of fracking and the popularity of "energy
drinks." Its sustained, multi-disciplinary investigation builds a
theoretical infrastructure for an alternative energy paradigm. This
study unhinges stubbornly held assumptions about energy, conceived
in terms of a resource to be violently extracted from the depths of
the earth and from certain living beings (such as plants, converted
into biofuels), a thing that, teetering on the verge of depletion,
sparks off movement and is incompatible with the inertia of rest.
Consulting the insights of philosophers, theologians, psychologists
and psychoanalysts, economic and political theorists, and
physicists, Michael Marder argues that energy is not only a coveted
object of appropriation but also the subject who dreams of amassing
it; that it not only resides in the dimension of depth but also
circulates on the surface; that it activates rest as much as
movement, potentiality as much as actuality; and that it is both
the means and the end of our pursuits. Ultimately, Marder shows
that, instead of being grounded in utopian naivete, the dreams of
another energy-to be procured without devastating everything in
existence-derive from the suppressed concept of energy itself.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2017 |
| Authors: |
Michael Marder
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
200 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-18059-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-231-18059-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780231180597 |
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