NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Bog, Industrial Democracy, 1905 Russian Revolution
20 Jun 2013
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Democracy is not the consequence of the industrial revolution destroying older forms of power, but of people acquiring and assembling political forms of power from within the processes attached to coal production. That new power was weakened in the transition from a collective life powered with coal to one built upon oil ( pg. Coal and oil are intimately connected to our democracies. So mitchell s stories of coal and oil development are intended to show. The way forms of power are tied up with the coal and oil. The way people gained power via coal but lost power via oil. 150-350 million years ago, peat bog forests and marine organisms decayed in watery, oxygen-deficient environment( pg. Historically set by the energy required to produce a fuel( pg. The accelerating supply of energy enabled new forms of mass politics (pg. 81) But also new, concentrated forms( urban, not agricultural)
