Energy and Rhythm

Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvGordon Walker

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Rhythms animate our lives and the worlds we inhabit. Rhythms of getting things done, of working technologies, of day and night and the seasons, and of shared patterns of work, home-life and moving around. Rhythms are also intrinsically about flows of energy – heat, light, motion – from the smallest movements of muscles, to the petrol-fuelled rhythms of the rush hour, the spinning of wind turbines and shifting cycles of solar radiation. This book sets out to energise Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis in order to develop a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic conceptualisation of the beats and pulses of our relations with energy in both its natural and technological forms. Social theory, thermodynamic thinking and diverse streams of energy-oriented research are brought together to trace how the climate crisis has the rhythmic patterning of big power energy systems at its core; and how transitioning to a just, low carbon future means transforming energy systems and our everyday dependencies on them into new rhythmic patterns and interrelations.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-27
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor238
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538179895

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Energy and Rhythm TogetherChapter 2 Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis: Interpretation and FoundationChapter 3 Energetic Rhythms: Thermodynamics and RhythmanalysisChapter 4: Solar and Social Rhythms: Light, Heat and Polyrhythmic ChangeChapter 5: Rhythms in Energy Systems: Grid Electricity and Big (Carbon) PowerChapter 6: Low Carbon Rhythms and Electricity Systems in Polyrhythmic TransitionChapter 7 Rhythms without Techno-energies: Bodies, Homes and Cities

Walker offers readers his view (extending Lefebvre's theory of rhythmanalysis) that the challenge of a low carbon future can be framed in terms of mastering the interactions between different forms of energy and the various rhythms that define people's lives, from natural circadian rhythms to the omnipresent technological rhythms of 21st-century life. Given this context, the challenges of a low carbon future can be alternatively considered by reimagining these rhythms and creating new rhythms that better position humans for a sustainable future. . . . Framing the current energy challenges in terms of rhythms is an interesting and novel idea that may appeal to individuals as they consider how to contribute to the coming and inevitable energy transition. Recommended.