Fuel A Speculative Dictionary |
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Author:
| Pinkus, Karen |
Series title: | Posthumanities Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9998-8 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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Fuel isan idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined,historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film,and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was incirculation--Fuel argues for a distinction between energy and fuel as itendeavours to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and allwill be golden.
Fuel isan idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined,historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film,and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was incirculation--Fuel argues for a distinction between energy and fuel as itendeavours to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and allwill be golden.