Energy, space, and movement: toward a framework for theorizing energy justice
Energy, space, and movement: toward a framework for theorizing energy justice
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能源、空间和运动：建立能源正义理论框架
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2020
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Alf Hornborg
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Alf Hornborg
摘要本文试图建立一个概念框架，以理解能源技术在多大程度上只是一种使自然发挥作用的方式，以及在多大程度上是一种使全球社会其他部分发挥作用的方式。转向化石能源扭转了能源与空间之间的关系，因为化石燃料从此推动了新的运输技术，使人们能够进入越来越宽的空间。速度是一种测量穿越给定空间所需时间的方法，给定一定的质量和摩擦力，它可以物理地表示为给定能量的耗散。技术进步对劳动生产率和速度有着同源的影响：两者都需要增加外体能量耗散，这取决于对具体劳动时间和自然空间的占用。在掩盖工业技术对不对称资源转移的依赖性的同时，通用货币继续扭曲甚至在马克思主义理论中对技术的传统理解。鉴于技术是资本的一种表现形式，马克思主义的一个基本悖论是它渴望将对资本积累的批判与技术进步的愿景联合收割机结合起来。
ABSTRACT This paper attempts to assemble a conceptual framework for understanding to what extent an energy technology is simply a way of putting nature to work, and to what extent it is a way of putting other segments of global society to work. The turn to fossil energy reversed the relation between energy and space, as fossil fuels henceforth propelled new transport technologies that provided access to increasingly wider spans of space. Velocity is a measure of the amount of time required to traverse a given space, and given a certain mass and amount of friction, it can be physically expressed as the dissipation of a given quantity of energy. Technological progress has cognate implications for labour productivity and velocity: both entail an increase in exosomatic energy dissipation that is contingent on the appropriation of embodied labour time and natural space. In concealing the dependency of industrial technology on asymmetric resource transfers, general-purpose money continues to distort the conventional understanding of technology even in Marxist theory. Given that technology is a manifestation of capital, a fundamental paradox of Marxism is its aspiration to combine a critique of capital accumulation with a vision of technological progress.