It is more and more obvious that our fossilized civilization has no sustainable future. It is an ecological Ponzi scheme stealing away the lives of countless species and the well-being of future generations in exchange for contemporary conveniences and the luxuries of a small subset of the human population. Yet a civilization wholly beyond fossils still seems difficult to grasp. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization trough successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oily automobility and plasticity), showing what tethers us to the ecocidal trajectory of petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place. What can we do to make electroculture more just and sustainable than the petroculture we are leaving behind?
- ISBN:
- 9781517916367
- 9781517916367
- Category:
- Social forecasting
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 24-01-2024
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 177.8x127x7.62mm
- Weight:
- 0.13kg
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