...Sheena Wilson This article takes the E. L. Smith Solar Farm, a proposed municipal solar energy infrastructure project in Edmonton, Alberta, as a case study of solar imaginaries as they intertwine with material and social realities. Set for installation at the E. L. Smith Water Treatment Plant site...

...Eva-Lynn Jagoe Would we know solarity if we encountered it? And where do we look for the potential openings that such a new energy system could enable? Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share has emerged as a key text in the theorization of energy because of his distinction between the restricted...

...Daniel A. Barber This essay proposes an inversion and productive complication of the familiar nomenclature of active and passive solar energy, as it pertains to architectural design methods and to solarity more generally: that is, to changes in economies, cultures, and ways of living in the present...

...Amanda Boetzkes This article considers how Georges Bataille’s account of solarity informs a planetary perspective. Bataille is credited with formulating a critical analysis of “solar societies” whose economies are shaped by the exchange of solar energy. However, a sometimes understated facet...

...Jordan B. Kinder The ongoing history of setter colonialism is inextricable from the infrastructures of energy and extraction that provide its material foundation. Addressing this inextricable relationship, this article explores how Indigenous solarities in Canada resist extractivism and generate...

...Joel Auerbach The necessity of immediate transition from fossil fuels has made painfully conspicuous the fact that energy sources such as solar and wind do not have the same material properties as coal and oil, and has attracted critical attention to the ways in which the social values...

...Jamie Cross How are we to engage with the forms of solarity that emerge in response to humanitarian crises, like those created by a highly virulent infectious disease? As we struggle to respond to the worldwide SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and begin to envisage the role of solar energy in a green...

...Gökçe Günel Discussions of energy in sub-Saharan Africa tend to focus on leapfrogging, theorizing how some non-Western countries might be able to avoid carbon-intensive fuels, such as coal and oil, and directly start using renewable energy infrastructure, mainly solar. While theories...

... 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...

... 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...

... of Solar Energy in the United States .” PhD diss. , New York University . Center for Disease Control and Prevention . 2008 . “ Heat-Related Deaths among Crop Workers 1992–2006 .” Atlanta, GA . Center for Disease Control and Prevention . Friendly Fred W. 1960 . “ Harvest of Shame...

...Imre Szeman; Darin Barney Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. solar energy solarity References Barber Daniel . 2016 . A House in the Sun: Modern...

... in the twenty-first century, we must further settle accounts with the legacy of twentieth-century revolutions, many of which were predicated on energy-intensive and technoaccelerationist principles. This essay discusses what should and should not belong to revolutionary solarity and puts forth an alternate...

... not conceive of capturing solar energy, or at least not directly). This dream invokes capacity building and technological leapfrogging: those who have not (yet) enjoyed growth will not have to pass through a carbon economy. They just need the green light of some capital investments, so to speak...

... 4 . www.forbes.com/sites/natalieparletta/2019/08/04/meatless-meat-is-on-the-horizon--youll-be-surprised-where-it-comes-from/#3133c6a87ed2 . Scheer Hermann . 2004 . The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future . London : Earthscan . Seba Tony Tubb...

... . www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/is-racism-becoming-more-overt-lately-in-red-deer/ . Monkman Lenard . 2019 . “ Manitoba’s New ‘Utility Scale’ Solar Farm Aims to Spark First Nations Interest in Green Energy .” CBC News , June 20 . www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/fisher-river-cree-nation-solar-power...

... to economic dimensions (such as the commodification of biodiversity and ecosystem ser- vices), new eco-efficient technologies (such as wind and solar energy), and the capacity to detect threats and vulnerabilities and generate strategies to confront biodiversity loss or climate change at the global...

... Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 5–30. 35 Fisker, “The Laws of Energy,” 74. 36 Mary Louise Pratt, “Planetary Longings: Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV,” in World Writing: Towards a Poet(h)ics of Globalization? ed. Mary Gallagher (Toronto...

... technologies, and certainly not all innovations. For example, solar energy requires high-tech innovations. 14 For Hegel (1986: sec. 143, p. 567), the possibility that the sultan becomes the pope is not a “real” possibility. See also Taylor 1975: 283. 15 On the scary creation...

... possibly nuclear energy, efficiency improvements, consumer education, and the appropriate pricing of carbon). Each side of the climate debate accuses the other of exaggeration and suffers from its own. Skeptics ignore basic climate facts and perils, while those who point their finger...