Formosa Plastics Global Archive 台灣塑膠檔案館
The Formosa Plastics Archive (FPA) (台灣塑膠檔案館) documents environmental disaster caused by one of the world's largest petrochemical companies.
Resisting Naphtha Crackers
This collection documents the early protests against Formosa Plastics petrochemical development in Yilan County (see also Ho 2014
Energy in COVID-19: Monthly Media Briefs
This timeline serves as a record of the monthly Media Briefs of the Energy in COVID-19 research group.
EIC-19 Past Meetings
This Text Artifact serves as a living record of the Energy in COVID-19 working group's past meetings.
Reading The Birth of Energy
The Energy in COVID-19 working group is hosting a discussion of Cara N.
What concepts does this text build from and advance?
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The text builds on the concepts "biopower" and "capital" and introduces the concept "energopolitics" to exisiting anthropolitical minima. In the text's introduction, Boyer disucsses the limitations of these concepts when universalized, because they are multiplicities that have been bundled into more nominal forms as part of analytic projects, and then expands on these concepts in order to situate them within anthropolitical and technopolitical domains in Mexico. For example, biopower, which can be defined as a practice of governance that denotes vast networks of enablement with many infrastructures and actors in order to optimize human life, and in Mexico the government put forth discourse around renewable energy development that discusses it as a means of guaranteeing or imporiving the health and welfare of human enviornments, economies, communities, and individuals.
The Energy in COVID-19 monthly Media Briefs collect the latest news read by our working group members.