DAS COPYRIGHT LIEGT BEIM JEWEILIGEN AUTOR. Literature and culture studies, I Residual, Dominant and Emergent

Energy has been canalised by the use of technology since the Industrial Revolution. From then on many inventions were made to ease life. Using energy was a sign of progress and of welfare and still is part of our thinking, as a residuum. The dominant view towards energy use is influenced by capitalist thinking and by the thought of “lets use it as long as we have it”. The emergent concept is to think of the future of our species but still the consumption of energy is still increasing. Technical solutions for lower energy use and cleaner energy production are continuously being developed The residual attitude on energy use is to look at it as progress, which is seen only as a positive thing. From the Industrial Revolution, with its invention of the steam engine, to the Sixties with the boiler, elevator and central heating in every new house, there are many commodities that make life easier using energy of some kind. Everyone likes Comfort, so science found out that with the power of heat, produced with fire and transformed into steam pressure, machines can b