Energy and Rhythm
Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future
Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7989-5 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7989-5 (ISBN)
This is a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic theorisation of our collective living with energy in its many natural and technological forms. It provides a distinctive understanding of the urgent challenges of transforming future energy systems into more just and lower carbon configurations.
Rhythms animate our lives and the worlds we inhabit. Rhythms of getting things done, of working technologies, of day and night and the seasons, and of shared patterns of work, home-life and moving around. Rhythms are also intrinsically about flows of energy – heat, light, motion – from the smallest movements of muscles, to the petrol-fuelled rhythms of the rush hour, the spinning of wind turbines and shifting cycles of solar radiation. This book sets out to energise Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis in order to develop a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic conceptualisation of the beats and pulses of our relations with energy in both its natural and technological forms. Social theory, thermodynamic thinking and diverse streams of energy-oriented research are brought together to trace how the climate crisis has the rhythmic patterning of big power energy systems at its core; and how transitioning to a just, low carbon future means transforming energy systems and our everyday dependencies on them into new rhythmic patterns and interrelations.
Rhythms animate our lives and the worlds we inhabit. Rhythms of getting things done, of working technologies, of day and night and the seasons, and of shared patterns of work, home-life and moving around. Rhythms are also intrinsically about flows of energy – heat, light, motion – from the smallest movements of muscles, to the petrol-fuelled rhythms of the rush hour, the spinning of wind turbines and shifting cycles of solar radiation. This book sets out to energise Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis in order to develop a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic conceptualisation of the beats and pulses of our relations with energy in both its natural and technological forms. Social theory, thermodynamic thinking and diverse streams of energy-oriented research are brought together to trace how the climate crisis has the rhythmic patterning of big power energy systems at its core; and how transitioning to a just, low carbon future means transforming energy systems and our everyday dependencies on them into new rhythmic patterns and interrelations.
Gordon Walker is professor of environment and justice at the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Energy and Rhythm Together
Chapter 2 Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis: Interpretation and Foundation
Chapter 3 Energetic Rhythms: Thermodynamics and Rhythmanalysis
Chapter 4: Solar and Social Rhythms: Light, Heat and Polyrhythmic Change
Chapter 5: Rhythms in Energy Systems: Grid Electricity and Big (Carbon) Power
Chapter 6: Low Carbon Rhythms and Electricity Systems in Polyrhythmic Transition
Chapter 7 Rhythms without Techno-energies: Bodies, Homes and Cities
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.01.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 390 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5381-7989-X / 153817989X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-7989-5 / 9781538179895 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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