Energy Dreams : : Of Actuality / / Michael Marder.
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...
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Marder, Michael, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Energy Dreams : Of Actuality / Michael Marder. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Opening Words -- 1. Energy Dreams -- 2. Theological Musings -- 3. Economic Chimeras -- 4. Psychological Reveries -- 5. Political Fantasies -- 6. Physical Fancies -- The Last Word: Energy or Energies? -- P.S.-The Very Last Word -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 naïveté, the dreams of another energy-to be procured without devastating everything in existence-derive from the suppressed concept of energy itself. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Political science Philosophy. Power (Social sciences) Power (Social sciences). Psychic energy (Psychoanalysis) Psychic energy (Psychoanalysis). PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543308 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2017 9783110548228 ZDB-23-DPH print 9780231180580 https://doi.org/10.7312/mard18058 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231542838 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231542838/original |
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