Ep. #146 - Cara Daggett

dc.creatorBoyer, Dominic (podcast host)en_US
dc.creatorHowe, Cymene (podcast host)en_US
dc.creatorDaggett, Caraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T16:01:48Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-07-25T16:01:48Zen_US
dc.date.issued2017-12-14en_US
dc.descriptionThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.en_US
dc.description.abstractDominic and Cymene talk about the country’s first robot sex brothel coming to Houston. And then (14:40) we welcome the amazing Cara Daggett to the podcast. Cara has an amazing book in press with Duke that everyone should pre-order. It’s entitled The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics and the Politics of Work and it describes how the modern conceptualization of the term “energy” only came about during the Victorian period. Cara begins by explaining how Aristotle’s conceptualization of energy as “dynamic virtue” was different from our own imagination of the relationship of energy and work as having to do with moving matter. From there we move to exploring the labor/energy nexus that proved so vital to European modernity. We talk about what empire, evolutionary theory, Presbyterianism and thermodynamics contributed to Victorian thinking about energy. We turn to entropy, decay and waste and how Victorian energy imaginaries have been extended to include much discourse on renewable energy too. We make a brief detour through the Victorian Anthropocene before asking whether it is possible to unwind energy conceptually from a soul-crushing Protestant ethic of perpetual work. We close with a discussion of Cara’s recent article on petromasculinity and the misogyny of fossil fuel use and what it was like to become a target of radical right venom. What would a feminist energy system look like? Listen on!en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThis podcast was encoded using GarageBand 10.2.0 software at 128 kbps Audio Bitrate and 44100 Sample Rate in mp3 format.en_US
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dc.format.extentDuration: 1:10:18en_US
dc.identifier.citationBoyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and Daggett, Cara. "Ep. #146 - Cara Daggett." (2017) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112852.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/112852en_US
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dc.publisherCultures of Energy, Rice Universityen_US
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeriesCultures of Energy Podcast Seriesen_US
dc.rightsThis document is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
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dc.sourceCultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHoween_US
dc.subjectenvironmental humanitiesen_US
dc.titleEp. #146 - Cara Daggetten_US
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