Carbon democracy
political power in the age of oil
- ISBN: 9781804292495
- Editorial: Verso Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 304
- Idiomas: Inglés
With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new form of politics. Oil created a denatured political life the central object of which-the economy-appeared capable of infinite growth. What followed was a Western democracy dependent on an undemocratic Middle East. We now live with the consequences: an impoverished political practice, incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy - namely, the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fuelled collapse of the ecological order.
For the updated edition of this classic title, Timothy Mitchell has written a new preface, reassessing its arguments in the light of recent political events.
Introduction
1 Machines of Democracy
2 The Prize from Fairyland
3 Consent of the Governed
4 Mechanisms of Goodwill
5 Fuel Economy
6 Sabotage
7 The Crisis That Never Happened
8 McJihad
Conclusion: No More Counting On Oil
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