Fuel : a speculative dictionary / Karen Pinkus.

Main entry:

Pinkus, Karen, author.

Title & Author:

Fuel : a speculative dictionary / Karen Pinkus.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Description:

viii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 39

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Fuel is an 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 in circulation--Fuel argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as "potentiality") as it works to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and all will be golden.

ISBN:

9780816699971 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816699976 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816699988 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816699984 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Fuel Philosophy Dictionaries.
Power resources Philosophy Dictionaries.
Power (Philosophy) in literature Dictionaries.
Energie
Energiequelle
Kraftstoff
Literatur
Philosophie
Power (Philosophy) in literature.

Form/genre:

Dictionaries.

Added entries:

Posthumanities ; 39.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296858
Call No.: BIB 243176
Notes: ENV TP316 .P56 2016
Status: Available

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