Mineral Rites
an archaeology of the fossil economy
$122.09
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2019
Summary
An archaeology of Western energy culture that demystifies the role that fossil fuels play in the day-to-day rituals of modern life.
Spanning the past two hundred years, this book offers an alternative history of modernity that restores to fossil fuels their central role in the growth of capitalism and modernity itself, including the emotional attachments and real injuries that they generate and command. Everything about us—our bodies, minds, sense of self, nature, reason, and faith—h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421427560 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421427567 |
| Author: | Bob Johnson |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Energy Humanities |
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Literary and cultural critic Bob Johnson provides a language with which to make sense of these complex, embodied, everyday experiences of extracted energy.
Literary and cultural critic Bob Johnson provides a language with which to make sense of these complex, embodied, everyday experiences of extracted energy.—Public BooksThe subtitle of Mineral Rites is particularly apt, for it truly is a work of rhetorical archaeology – Johnson peels back the layers of what we know (or think we know) about the fossil fuel industry to reveal the mind-bogglingly expansive scope of how the fossil economy reaches out and affects peoples’ lived experiences in vastly different ways … As a cautionary tale, it is a veritable punch to the gut that leaves us gasping for air.—Material Culture
About The Author
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson is the chair of the Department of Social Sciences and a professor of history at National University. He is the author of Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture.
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