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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the
underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and
innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters
situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and
ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used,
and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors
address issues including the connection between resource flows and
social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and
notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and
magic; social tensions that accompany energy contraction; and
sociocultural changes required in affluent societies to reduce
dependence on fossil fuels. Each of five thematic sections
concludes with an integrative and provocative conversation among
the authors. The volume is an ideal tool for teaching unique,
contemporary, and comparative perspectives on social theories of
science and technology in undergraduate and graduate courses.
This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the
underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and
innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters
situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and
ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used,
and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors
address issues including the connection between resource flows and
social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and
notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and
magic; social tensions that accompany energy contraction; and
sociocultural changes required in affluent societies to reduce
dependence on fossil fuels. Each of five thematic sections
concludes with an integrative and provocative conversation among
the authors. The volume is an ideal tool for teaching unique,
contemporary, and comparative perspectives on social theories of
science and technology in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too gay and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick. A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Castle he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and the March of Mind. Yet the romantic in him never died: the long, witty and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.
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