{"product_id":"on-the-grid-climate-change-and-the-utopia-of-green-energy-9780197696248","title":"On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy","description":"What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about?\u003cem\u003e On the Grid\u003c\/em\u003e, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by renewable energy and the goal to \"electrify everything.\" Environmental thought increasingly centers infrastructure, particularly the goal of a decarbonized electrical grid. The aim is unlimited energy use, but without greenhouse gas emissions. Warner asks: What kind of consumer is imagined when climate action takes the form of a green grid? How will that change actions around environmental ethics and politics, for example the mantra \"reduce, re-use, recycle\"? What other features of the environmentalist tradition now need revision? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill carbon emissions be taken care of silently so individuals will only be asked to use more power? By what process --and with what kind of agency-- is the environmental future being built around and within us? \u003cem\u003eOn the Grid\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to generate such questionings in part by reviewing the cultural and political history that has made grid infrastructure a central but usually unrecognized dimension of government, as well as a structuring framework of the modern. Warner then traces a parallel history of various kinds of resistance to the grid, from Thoreau to present, including a countercultural tradition that was formative for much of the environmental movement. Is the green grid a case of \"improved means to unimproved ends\"? With contributions by Dale Jamieson, Jedediah Britton-Purdy, and Anahid Nersessian, and an introduction by volume editor Michael Lucey, \u003cem\u003eOn the Grid \u003c\/em\u003estarts a conversation about how the environmental tradition can better adapt to the current politics of grid reform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Warner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, and taught at Northwestern and Rutgers before going to Yale, where he served as chair of the Department of English. His books include \u003cem\u003ePublics and Counterpublics \u003c\/em\u003e(2002); \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble with Normal \u003c\/em\u003e(1999); and \u003cem\u003eThe Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America \u003c\/em\u003e(1990). With Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, he edited \u003cem\u003eVarieties of Secularism in a Secular Ag\u003c\/em\u003ee (2010). He is also the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Portable Walt Whitman\u003c\/em\u003e (2003); \u003cem\u003eAmerican Sermons\u003c\/em\u003e (1999); \u003cem\u003eThe English Literatures of America \u003c\/em\u003e(with Myra Jehlen. 1996); and \u003cem\u003eFear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory \u003c\/em\u003e(1993). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lucey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). He has edited or co-edited special issues of \u003cem\u003eParagraph\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Approaching Proust in 2022\") and \u003cem\u003eRepresentations\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact\"). Earlier books include \u003cem\u003eSomeone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), \u003cem\u003eNever Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), and \u003cem\u003eThe Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). He is also a translator.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676157083922,"sku":"9780197696248","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c6d3f18-e6e7-4a30-a4d0-eb7bfb148ca5.jpg?v=1761046779","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-grid-climate-change-and-the-utopia-of-green-energy-9780197696248","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}