Energy Connections
Living Forces in Inter/Intra-Action
edited by Manuela Rossini
Introduction: Energy as a Nomadic Concept
While I am writing this Introduction, the meltdown of the three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant that took place in March 2011 is apparently still not under control. (Three years after the catastrophe it is still not and generates "400 tons of radioactive water ... every day". Six years later: still not under control.) It made new energy-saving technologies the centre of attention at CEATEC, Japan's largest information technology and electronics fair, in October of the same year. Environmentally-conscious scientists are starting to hope that better management of the island’s many forests and policy reinforcements will allow for the sustainable use of woody biomass (Sasaki et al., 2011) or any other freely available natural resource (as documented by the non-profit organization Japan for Sustainability or the German Energy Rich Japan Project) in order to generate the 858.5 billion kWh the Japanese population currently consumes per year. The techno-natural disaster under discussion has recharged the empty batteries of the anti-nuclear movement, and not just in Japan (rallied by Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, for example), and has also fuelled calls by political parties of almost all creeds for an 'energy turn' world-wide. (Yet on June 16, 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda prompted the restarting of the reactors at Oi after a shut-down of all the nuclear power plants, while in my home country, Switzerland, higher than expected costs have overshadowed any green optimism about, and political will for, a quick nuclear exit.) (more)
Energy Forms: TransForming Dynamics
- Bruce Clarke
- A Scientific Romance: Thermodynamics and the Fourth Dimension in Charles Howard Hinton’s ‘The Persian King’
- Ibrahim Dincer, Yunus A. Cengel
- Energy, Entropy and Exergy Concepts and Their Roles in Thermal Engineering
- Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
- Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation
- Gordana Dodig-Cmkovic, ed.
- Information and Energy/Matter
- David Rudrauf, Antoine Lutz, Diego Cosmelli, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, and Michel Le Van Quyen
- From Autopoesis to Neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's Exploration of the Biophysics of Being
- Nophea Sasaki, Toshiaki Owari, Francis E. Putz
- Time To Substitute Bioenergy for Nuclear Power in Japan
Energy Flows: Empowering Cosmopolitics
- Eric J. Chaisson
- Follow the Energy: Relevance of Cosmic Evolution for Human History
- Clare Colebrook
- Queer Vitalism
- Geoffrey P. Hammond, Adrian B. Winnett
- The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique
- Bruno Latour
- Waiting for Gaia. Composing the Common World through Arts and Politics
- Takeshi Naganuma
- An Astrobiological View on Sustainable Life
- Dorion Sagan, Jessica Hope Whiteside
- Gradient Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life
- Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan
- Into the Cool: Energy Flows, Thermodynamics, and Life
- Isabelle Stengers, with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi
- History through the Middle: Between Macro and Micropolitics
Energy Matters: Entangling Physis and Semiosis
- Karen Barad
- Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come
- Henri Bergson
- Mind-Energy. Lectures and Essays
- Søren Brier, ed.
- Cybersemiotics (special issue of Entropy). Click for an overview of the 11 papers published in this volume.
- Peter Harries-Jones
- Bioentropy, Aesthetics and Meta-dualism: The Transdisciplinary Ecology of Gregory Bateson
- Manuela Rossini
- To the Dogs: Companion Speciesism and the New Feminist Materialism
- Isabelle Stengers
- Energy is Conserved!
- Günther Witzany
- Bio-Communication of Bacteria and their Evolutionary Roots in Natural Genome Editing Competences of Viruses
Energetic Art
- Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam
- New Energy in Design and Art
- Tate Modern
- Level 5: Energy and Process
- Zane Berzina
- e-static shadows
- Anne Blonstein
- Energy
- Sher Doruff
- ZeNeZ
- Anthony Dunne
- Hertzian Tales
- Olafur Eliasson
- Little Sun
- Bill Seaman
- Recombinant Poetics