Author Meets Critics Debate: An All-Consuming History of Energy

At this online event, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz will present his book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (Allen Lane 2024), followed by comments by Julia Nordblad (Uppsala University) and Rune Korgaard (UCPH) and a Q&A with the audience.

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is historian of science and technology and has emerged as a prominent historiographer of the Anthropocene over the last decade. The book delivers an “iconoclastic” and material history of energy that challenges our ways of thinking about energy transitions.

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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is researcher at CNRS and the EHESS, Paris, former lecturer at Imperial College, London, and specializes in the history of the contemporary environmental crisis. He is the author of several books, including Happy Apocalypse (2024), Chaos in the Heavens (with Fabien Locher, 2024), and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with Cristophe Bonneuil, 2017). 

Julia Nordblad is associate professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, and specializes in the intellectual and political history of the current ecological crisis, especially its temporal aspects. She is currently examining the political history of the concept of biodiversity and the history of ecological economics as political thought.

Rune Korgaard is PhD-Fellow at Department of History, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen and specializes in the intersection between energy, technology, and climate crises through historical perspectives on nuclear energy. His PhD project examines the intellectual and political history of nuclear energy advocacy.