... and affective processes are subjects of capitalist labor power. This essay argues that tracking vital energy, rather than value, as the content of what is produced and transmitted between biological and affective producers and their consumers holds on to the human vitality that Karl Marx describes...

... of solar futurity here termed the solar fix . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 energy humanities Timothy Mitchell petroculture solar Allan Stoekl References Bonneuil Christophe Fressoz Jean-Baptiste . 2017 . The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us...

...), Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture (2017); Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2017); and Glo- balization, Culture, Energy: Selected Essays, 2000–2013 (2017). Miriam Tola works at the intersection of political theory and feminist and deco- lonial environmental humanities. Her work has appeared in Hypatia...

... rational choice for human energy needs, which is why it puzzled him that polities simply didn t choose to immediately make the switch. Although technology is normally thought capable of anything, Scheer writes, it remains for most people inconceiv- able that it might achieve the relatively simple task...

... justice, solarity is a form of solidarity among the human and nonhuman world; it describes a relation towards the sun that reorients our collective energy imaginaries from one of scarcity to one of abundance. Indigenous solarities, then, name the myriad potentialities for doing so in ways that foreground...

... posthumanities as expressing an increase of metadiscursive energy on the part of the disciplines of the humanities, so as to reassert their institutional power while making a shift toward extradisci- plinary encounters in the world. But we could also see these developments as a rhizomatic political...

... of military power. However, the preeminent goal consisted of purifying the United States from its monolithic power complex and re­ gaining the moral initiative for mankind. As Mumford put it, if we rallied the forces of energy, human heartedness, and morality with the vigor with which we have marshalled...

...’: Solarpunk, Energy Imaginaries, and the Infrastructures of Solarity .” Open Library of Humanities 5 , no. 1 : doi.org/10.16995/olh.329 . Wilson Sheena . 2018 . “ Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures .” In Materialism and the Critique of Energy , edited by Bellamy Brent...

.... But, for Bataille, this energy, and our consciousness of it, is rife with ambiva- lent reversals that trouble ontological distinctions. For the sun s energies chain human beings to our mortality, animality, and importantly for this article, planetarity. The sun s reversals its nourishment of beings and its violent...

... of industrial production is no longer borne by the human Wilson Solarities or Solarculture 145 and more-than-human communities and ecologies it disrupts free of charge, these companies will no longer extract the excessive profits of a foregone era, securing power, writ-large and understood as both energy...

...Matteo Pasquinelli This essay proposes a definition of industrial labor as the composition of energy and information, in order to weave the issue of labor back into the fabric of the Anthropocene paradigm. The essay illustrates the industrial machine as the forgotten bifurcation of energy...

... for a Left that has the difficult task of generating and articulating alternatives to oil capital. While the equation “blood for oil” effectively draws attention to one dimension of the geopolitics of oil, it leaves unaddressed how one conceptualizes energy demands for a human polity that is expected...

... in American autonomism was somewhat different. See, e.g., Caffentzis (1980) 1992, which links human and nonhuman resistance through the work/energy crisis of the 1970s. 4 In Commonwealth, Hardt and Negri (2009) occasionally gesture to such an expanded notion of the common (see...

.... It is time to take this materialist predication further. In fact, and obvi­ ous enough now, it is not only labor, or human beings, that live and add energy; it is also nature, although it was easy to forget this, to objectify nature, when it was abundantly there to be taken for granted. If nature (or certain...

... Class Goes to Heaven Bataillean energy References Anusas Mike Ingold Tim . 2015 . “The Charge against Electricity.” Cultural Anthropology 30 , no. 4 : 540 – 54 . doi:10.14506/ca30.4.03 . Aureli Pier Vittorio . 2008 . The Project of Autonomy: Politics...

... beginning, an energy renaissance. Note 1 “‘Anthropocene’ is a term widely used since its coining by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000 to denote the present time interval, in which many geologically sig- nificant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities...

... of Heidegger and the Work of Art History (2014). Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Founding Director of the Center Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS), and author of The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era (2013) and Energopolitics: Wind...

... of science the laws which govern human society. From adolescence, he was seeking a grand generalization which would describe, explain, and predict the movement of humanity through time and would disclose a unity beneath the multi­ plicity of historical data. At first he was taken with the theories...

..., the nocturnal disappearance of the sun came to be seen by some as a check on human freedom and productivity. Constant light would be a gift to agriculture, leading to corn large enough to harvest with saws. Irreversibly redistrib- uting energies, capacities, and expectations in time and space...

... place, it suggests solarities that delink the expectation of development from the commitment to improve energy access—that is, an epistemics through which we might let access to light be an end in itself. The article concludes by outlining “endarkenment” as an alternative register for theorizing solar...