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000732085 1001_ $$aJohnson, Robert,$$d1967-$$eauthor.
000732085 24510 $$aCarbon nation :$$bfossil fuels in the making of American culture /$$cBob Johnson.
000732085 264_1 $$aLawrence, Kansas :$$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$$c[2014]
000732085 300__ $$axxix, 230 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm.
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000732085 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000732085 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000732085 4901_ $$aCultureAmerica
000732085 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000732085 5050_ $$aIntroduction : Modernity's basement -- Part 1. Divergence. A people of prehistoric carbon -- Rocks and bodies -- Part 2. Submergence. An upthrust into barbarism -- The dynamo-mother -- A faint whiff of gasoline -- Conclusion : A return of the repressed -- Appendix : Energy and power.
000732085 520__ $$a"Fossil fuels don't simply impact our ability to commute to and from work. They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy. Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, ecology, politics, journalism, and art history to chart the course by which prehistoric carbon calories entered into the American economy and body. It reveals how fossil fuels remade our ways of being, knowing, and sensing in the world while examining how different classes, races, sexes, and conditions learned to embrace and navigate the material manifestations and cultural potential of these new prehistoric carbons. The ecological roots of modern America are introduced in the first half of the book where the author shows how fossil fuels revolutionized the nation's material wealth and carrying capacity. The book then demonstrates how this eager embrace of fossil fuels went hand in hand with both a deliberate and an unconscious suppression of that dependency across social, spatial, symbolic, and psychic domains. In the works of Eugene O'Neill, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Stephen Crane, the author reveals how Americans' material dependencies on prehistoric carbon were systematically buried within modernist narratives of progress, consumption, and unbridled growth; while in films like Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and George Stevens's Giant he uncovers cinematic expressions of our own deep-seated anxieties about living in a dizzying new world wrought by fossil fuels. Any discussion of fossil fuels must go beyond energy policy and technology. In Carbon Nation, Bob Johnson reminds us that what we take to be natural in the modern world is, in fact, historical, and that our history and culture arise from this relatively recent embrace of the coal mine, the stoke hole, and the oil derrick. "--$$cProvided by publisher.
000732085 520__ $$a"A close look at our nation's conflicted love affair with fossil fuels (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and their pervasive impact on American life and culture. While carbon has literally fueled a relentless technological progress and provided the highest standard of living the world has ever seen, it's also been the engine for environmental and human degradation, a blithe consumerism unaware of its carbon dependency, and dangerously large concentrations of wealth and power. Focusing on this longstanding contradiction, Johnson argues that our embrace and celebration of carbon has been enabled by distancing ourselves from its costs."--$$cProvided by publisher.
000732085 650_0 $$aFossil fuels$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000732085 650_0 $$aEnergy consumption$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000732085 650_0 $$aEnergy industries$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000732085 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xEconomic conditions.
000732085 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xEnvironmental conditions.
000732085 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xCivilization.
000732085 830_0 $$aCulture America.
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