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Author: Karen Pinkus
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Volume: 39
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.204kg
ISBN: 9780816699988
ISBN 10: 0816699984
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 01 November 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Pinkus totes a toolbox packed with allegory and alchemy, theories and thinkers with which to prod her materials. The fuels catalogued range from the (seemingly) obvious - wood, coal, oil, uranium - through the more fictional-imaginative - the philosopher's stone, dilithium crystals - to the (seemingly) absurd - albatrosses, goats, the arrow of Eros, patriotism. --New Scientist An illuminating read for those engaging in interdisciplinary work on the concerns of climate change. --CHOICE
From the first we realize <i>Fuel</i> is not a traditional academic essay, but a fantastic dictionary, full of tall tales, craziness, real history, fake history, anticipations of the future, segues from one fuel form or fantasy to another, and sheer nonsense tied to hard truths. In this sense it's like fuel there at the beginning and still with us, kicking and screaming, to the bitter end. Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University</p> With a nod to dictionary mania of Jules Verne, <i>Fuel</i> maps what starts as the common law right to a small bundle of wood but becomes an ever more dangerous dream of the power of pure fuel-less energy. Air, amber, bitumen . . . coal, cobalt, coke . . . Pinkus brilliantly punctures this gaseous utopian fantasy of an immaterial fuel and gestures toward a present less addicted to future fuels. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University</p>
From the first we realize Fuel is not a traditional academic essay, but a fantastic dictionary, full of tall tales, craziness, real history, fake history, anticipations of the future, segues from one fuel form or fantasy to another, and sheer nonsense tied to hard truths. In this sense it's like fuel there at the beginning and still with us, kicking and screaming, to the bitter end. Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University With a nod to dictionary mania of Jules Verne, Fuel maps what starts as the common law right to a small bundle of wood but becomes an ever more dangerous dream of the power of pure fuel-less energy. Air, amber, bitumen . . . coal, cobalt, coke . . . Pinkus brilliantly punctures this gaseous utopian fantasy of an immaterial fuel and gestures toward a present less addicted to future fuels. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University
Pinkus totes a toolbox packed with allegory and alchemy, theories and thinkers with which to prod her materials. The fuels catalogued range from the (seemingly) obvious - wood, coal, oil, uranium - through the more fictional-imaginative - the philosopher's stone, dilithium crystals - to the (seemingly) absurd - albatrosses, goats, the arrow of Eros, patriotism. --<i>New Scientist</i></p> An illuminating read for those engaging in interdisciplinary work on the concerns of climate change. --<i>CHOICE</i></p>
Author Information
Karen Pinkus is professor of Italian and comparative literature at Cornell University and chair of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She has widely written on climate change and the humanities, as well as on literary theory, visual arts, Italian culture, and cinema. Her books include Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (Minnesota, 1995) and Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence.
