More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics

Jeremy Walker is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences and a member of the Climate Justice Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (University of New South Wales), a Bachelor of Communications (Social Inquiry, Hons, UTS) and a PhD (History and Philosophy of Science, UTS). 

1. Neoliberalism, environmentalism and the crisis of the 1970s.- 2. Oikonomia: on metaphor, science, and natural order.- 3. On photosynthesis and pyrotechnics:life between fire and law.- 4. Industrial machines and the discovery of the economy.- 5. The market as moral law: Providence, starvation and liberal Empire.- 6. The fire machine: economics as a social physics of natural law.- 7. Economics as agnotology: unlimited growth and the limits of knowledge.- 8. The Age of Ecology.- 9. Oeconomy of nature: the balance of nature and the struggle for existence.- 10. Super-organism: American ecology and national development.- 11. Energy, ecology and the Great World Engine.- 12. Ecologist as cyborg: the military origins of the subversive science.- 13. Power and entropy: the limits of ecological economics.- 14. Genealogies of resilience: from conservation to disaster adaptation.