Working Nature
Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th centuries.
Russ argues that âEnergyâ is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature forged in capitalist industrialisation. The concept of energy mediates the appropriation of diverse natural forcesâwater, steam, coal, electricityâaltering the way these forces would naturally behave to perform work in production.
From the valuation of coal and crafting of the current to the formalization of the substitution of energy commodities, it asks how engineers, scientists, and economists achieved the production and circulation of natureâs work against social and natural resistance. In so doing, they undermined the very purpose of the energy economyâto emancipate humanity from nature.
Can there be a human reconciliation with natureâs resistance for our time?
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Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th centuries.
Russ argues that âEnergyâ is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature forged in capitalist industrialisation. The concept of energy mediates the appropriation of diverse natural forcesâwater, steam, coal, electricityâaltering the way these forces would naturally behave to perform work in production.
From the valuation of coal and crafting of the current to the formalization of the substitution of energy commodities, it asks how engineers, scientists, and economists achieved the production and circulation of natureâs work against social and natural resistance. In so doing, they undermined the very purpose of the energy economyâto emancipate humanity from nature.
Can there be a human reconciliation with natureâs resistance for our time?
