RT Article
T1 Energy and spirit: Extraction, thermodynamics, and change
JF Dialog
VO 62
IS 2
SP 165
OP 172
A1 Crockett, Clayton 1969-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1853765724
AB This article suggests new ways to think about energy and thermodynamics beyond an extractive, fossil-fuel model. The predominant economic model of the modern world has been driven by the extraction and exploitation of fossil fuels—first coal and then oil. These are powerful forces, although their development is more complicated than we might suspect. At the same time, they influence the new science of thermodynamics, which is tied to heat and heat engines that are fueled by carbon-based inputs extracted from the earth. By attending to the work of Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen, however, we can see how energy and thermodynamics can be linked to a different economic model that is not primarily extractive. And this opens up to new perspectives on energy and change, including one that views energy more explicitly in terms of spirit. We can think about energy as something that avoids the dichotomy of matter and spirit in a way such that it participates in both.
K1 Thermodynamics
K1 New Materialism
K1 energy exchange
DO 10.1111/dial.12795