Jarrige, François (Author)
Vrignon, Alexis (Author)
Gras, Alain (Author)
La question de l'énergie et de ses crises sature l'actualité, les médias, comme les agendas politiques. Grand défi du présent, elle modèle nos modes de vie et nos rapports au monde à l'heure du triomphe du numérique, de l'électrification totale et du changement climatique. Longtemps, l'histoire de l'énergie a été ramenée à l'essor de la puissance rendu possible par le progrès technique, à un processus linéaire qui verrait les sociétés humaines maîtriser toujours plus leur environnement pour en extraire des ressources indispensables à leur fonctionnement. Mais ce récit rassurant, qui n'a cessé d'accompagner la modernité, se fissure désormais à l'âge des crises globales et des inégalités béantes. La croyance dans l'abondance énergétique et la quête de puissance infinie qui la porte se heurtent aux limites planétaires, en dépit des utopies abstraites qui continuent de promettre l'énergie abondante et gratuite pour tous. Cet ouvrage novateur retrace ces débats sur deux siècles en proposant une contre-histoire de l'énergie à l'époque contemporaine, depuis l'entrée dans l'ère industrielle et sa dépendance croissante aux combustibles fossiles. Ce faisant, il souhaite contribuer à l'avènement d'un autre système énergétique, plus sobre et durable, plus conforme aussi à la fragilité du monde, chaque jour plus apparente. (The issue of energy and its crises is saturating the news, the media and political agendas. A major challenge of the present, it shapes our lifestyles and our relationships with the world at a time of digital triumph, total electrification and climate change. For a long time, the history of energy has been reduced to the rise of power made possible by technical progress, to a linear process that would see human societies mastering their environment more and more in order to extract the resources that are indispensable to their functioning. But this reassuring narrative, which has constantly accompanied modernity, is now cracking in the age of global crises and gaping inequalities. The belief in energy abundance and the quest for infinite power that drives it are colliding with planetary limits, despite the abstract utopias that continue to promise abundant and free energy for all. This innovative book traces these debates over two centuries by proposing a counter-history of energy in the contemporary era, since the entry of the industrial era and its growing dependence on fossil fuels. In so doing, it hopes to contribute to the advent of another energy system, one that is more sober and sustainable, and more in keeping with the fragility of the world, which is becoming more apparent every day.)
...MoreReview Pierre Lanthier (2022) Review of "Face à la puissance: une histoire des énergies alternatives à l'âge industriel (Facing power: A history of alternative energies in the industrial age)". Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 150-151).
Review Clarence Hatton-Proulx (January 2021) Review of "Face à la puissance: une histoire des énergies alternatives à l'âge industriel (Facing power: A history of alternative energies in the industrial age)". Technology and Culture (pp. 271-272).
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