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Cara Dagge( ([email protected]) Office Hours: Thursday a;er class (<l @ 7pm) – Gilman atrium Energy & Global Poli<cs Fall 2015

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Cara  Dagge(  ([email protected])  Office  Hours:    

Thursday  a;er  class  (<l  @  7pm)  –  Gilman  atrium  

Energy    &    

Global  Poli<cs  

 Fall  2015  

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Energy  

Human  Fuel  Use  (esp.  fossil  fuels)  

Concept  /  Idea  

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Energy  

Human  Fuel  Use  (esp.  fossil  fuels)  

*Technology*  

Concept  /  Idea  

Energy  =  Virtue/Ac<vity  toward  the  Good  Life  

Thermodynamics  

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Thermodynamics  (mid-­‐19c  

‘discovery’  of  energy)  

energeia  =  Virtue/Ac<vity  

Human  Fuel  Use  

Technology  

Energy  =  Poli<cs  of  Fuel  Systems  

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Energy  (history  of  word/concept)  

Energeia  (Aristotle)  En-­‐  (in)  

-­‐ergon  (work)  ENERGY  (O.E.D.)  1.  force  or  vigor  of  expression  2.  exercise  of  power,  actual  working,  opera<on,  ac<vity  3.  vigor  or  intensity  of  ac<on  (personal  quality)  4.  power  ac<vely  and  efficiently  displayed  or  exerted  5.  ability  or  capacity  to  produce  an  effect  6.  PHYSICS:  power  of  ‘doing  work’  

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Energy  as  Fuel  

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Energy  (as  history  of  fuel  and  technology)  

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Thermodynamics  (mid-­‐19c  

‘discovery’  of  energy)  

energeia  =  Virtue/Ac<vity  

Human  Fuel  Use  

Technology  

Energy  =  Poli<cs  of  Fuel  Systems  

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Thermodynamics  (A  Science  of  Fuel  Technologies)  

Heat  =  Work  Work  =  Moving  Ma2er    Energy  =  Ability  to  do  work    

1)  Energy  is  conserved.                                                              (nothing  comes  from  nothing)  

2)  Entropy  increases.                                                                            (things  fall  apart;  a  perfect  engine  is  impossible)  

Poli.cal  Applica.on:    Use  energy  efficiently  (first  law)  because  once  ‘used’,  it  is  lost  forever  (second  law)    

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Energy  as  Subject  of  Poli<cs  

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Energy   Virtue/ac<vity   Fuel  systems  

Technology   study  of  machine  arts    

machines  themselves  

Machines   individual  things   Sociotechnical  systems  

Status  of  machine  

inferior  to  'Fine  Arts'  

Technology  elevates  to  Fine  

Arts  /  elite    

Progress  Incremental;  

means  to  social  ends  

History  as  expansion  of  human  power  over  nature  

CHANGES  IN  THE  19c  

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Complex  Sociotechnical  

Systems  Technology  Energy  +  

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Hazards  of  Technology  concept  (Leo  Marx)  

•  Reifica<on  –  “By  consigning  technologies  to  the  realm  of  things,  this  well-­‐

established  iconography  distracts  a(en<on  from  the  human—socioeconomic  and  poli<cal—rela<ons  which  largely  determine  who  uses  them  and  for  what  purposes.”  (Marx  576)  

•  Agency  –  “As  compared  with  other  means  of  reaching  our  social  goals,  the  

technological  has  come  to  seem  the  most  feasible,  prac<cal,  and  economically  viable.  It  relieves  the  ci<zenry  of  onerous  decision-­‐making  obliga<ons  and  intensifies  their  gathering  sense  of  poli<cal  impotence.”  (Marx  577)  

 

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Energy  systems  “create  the  structures  that  underlie  

personal  expecta<ons  and  assump<ons  about  what  is  

normal  and  possible.  …  These  assump<ons  together  form  the  

habitual  percep<on  of  a  sustaining  environment  that  is  taken  for  granted  as  always  already  there.  Yet  this  ground  of  historical  experience  is  

constantly  shi;ing,  some<mes  slowly  and  impercep<bly  during  one  genera<on  and  suddenly  in  the  next.”  

 -­‐  David  Nye,  Consuming  Power  (p.  7)  

 

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Energy  (as  history  of  fuel  and  technology)  

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Technical  Ar<facts  

Human  social  and  power  rela<ons  

Technological  Determinism  

Social  construc<on  of  Technological  Systems  

Technological  Change