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Mineral rites : an archaeology of the fossil economy / Bob Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Energy humanitiesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421427577
  • 1421427575
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.791/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9502.U52 J654 2019eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: "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 consumption severs consumers from the production of carboniferous fuels and the waste they create. The book will interest scholars of American studies and environmental history"-- Provided by publisher.
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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 consumption severs consumers from the production of carboniferous fuels and the waste they create. The book will interest scholars of American studies and environmental history"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 4, 2019).

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