Two important new books - Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy, and a fat edited collection entitled Oil and Governance - take us deep into the underbelly of fossil-fuel capitalism exposing, as Pablo Neruda's great poem 'Standard Oil Co.' suggests, the world of wells, engineers, title deeds and customs houses. Both volumes are concerned with the relations between fossil fuels and politics. Mitchell believes that oil and coal organize politics, in quite different ways and with different consequences: he explores democracy as oil, a 'form of politics....at multiple levels' (Mitchell, p. 5). In Oil and Governance, Victor et al. focus almost exclusively on the heterogeneous forms of national oil companies, the new titans that dominate the global oil and gas industry. While addressing the radical differences in performance and strategy among, say, China's CNPC, Nigeria's NNPC and Norway's Statoil, the book traces these differences to what the editors call state goals and state institutions, that is to say the rough and tumble world of politics. Deploying different theoretical apparatuses, both books explore how political relations are engineered out of flows of energy.
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机译：两本重要的新书-蒂莫西·米切尔（Timothy Mitchell）的《碳民主》（Carbon Democracy），以及一本名为《石油与治理》（Oil and Governance）的经过大量编辑的书集-带我们深入探究化石燃料资本主义的弱点，正如巴勃罗·聂鲁达（Pablo Neruda）的伟大诗作《标准石油公司》一样。建议说，水井，工程师，业权契据和海关大楼的世界。这两本书都关注化石燃料与政治之间的关系。米切尔（Mitchell）认为，石油和煤炭以完全不同的方式和不同的后果来组织政治：他将民主视为石油，这是一种“政治形式……多层次的政治形式”（米切尔，第5页）。 Victor等人在《石油与治理》一书中。几乎只专注于国家石油公司的异构形式，即主导全球石油和天然气行业的新型巨头。该书着眼于中国的CNPC，尼日利亚的NNPC和挪威的Statoil之间在绩效和战略上的根本差异，同时将这些差异追溯到编辑者所称的国家目标和国家机构，也就是政治的坎and和翻滚。这两本书采用不同的理论工具，探讨了如何利用能量流来构建政治关系。
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