Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary Volume 39

by Karen Pinkus

Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation--Fuel argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as "potentiality") as it endeavors to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816699984
• ISBN13: 9780816699988
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"