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Living Forces in Inter/Intra-Action

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)

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

Attributions

A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book

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+[[Image:Energy.jpg|right|318x450px|Energy.jpg]] Living Forces in Inter/Intra-Action
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+[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-262-9]
-= '''Energy Connections: &nbsp;Living Forces in Creative Inter/Intra-Action'''  =
+''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Energy_Connections/bio Manuela Rossini]
-Edited by [http://www.iash.unibe.ch/content/iash___sammlung/manuela_rossini/index_eng.html Manuela Rossini]
+__TOC__
-== <br>Introduction: Energy as a Travelling Concept  ==
+== '''[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Energy/Introduction Introduction: Energy as a Nomadic Concept]'''  ==
-Energy travels in/between and across subatomic particles, bodies, societies, cultures, and disciplines. To be continued ...<br>
+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 "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10688482/Three-years-after-Fukushima-Japan-still-struggles-to-cope.html 400 tons of radioactive water ... every day]". Six years later: [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/fukushima-nuclear-cleanup-falters-six-years-after-tsunami 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 [http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/7/1051 the sustainable use of woody biomass]&nbsp;(Sasaki ''et al''., 2011) or any other freely available natural resource (as documented by the non-profit organization [http://www.japanfs.org/en Japan for Sustainability] or the German [http://www.energyrichjapan.info/en/index.html 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q1ucwLPtM 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&nbsp;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.) ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Energy/Introduction more])
-== Energy Forms: TransForming Dynamics  ==
+=== Energy Forms:&nbsp;TransForming Dynamics &nbsp;  ===
-Energy trans/forms ...
+;Bruce Clarke
+:[http://altx.com/ebr/w(ebr)/essays/clarke.html A Scientific Romance: Thermodynamics and the Fourth Dimension in Charles Howard Hinton’s ‘The Persian King’]
+;Ibrahim Dincer, Yunus A. Cengel
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/3/3/116/ Energy, Entropy and Exergy Concepts and Their Roles in Thermal Engineering]
+;Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/3/460 Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation]
+;Gordana Dodig-Cmkovic, ed.
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/matter/ Information and Energy/Matter]
+;David Rudrauf,&nbsp;Antoine Lutz, Diego Cosmelli, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, and Michel Le Van Quyen
+:[http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602003000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso From Autopoesis to Neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's Exploration of the Biophysics of Being]<br>
+;Nophea Sasaki,&nbsp;Toshiaki Owari, Francis E. Putz <br>
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/7/1051 Time To Substitute Bioenergy for Nuclear Power in Japan]
+;<br>
-Dynamic systems ... nonequilibrium thermodynamics ...
+=== Energy Flows: Empowering Cosmopolitics  ===
-Kinetic and potential energies ...
+;Eric J. Chaisson
+:[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/follow_the_energy_chaisson.pdf Follow the Energy: Relevance of Cosmic Evolution for Human History]
+;Clare Colebrook
+:[http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/articles/nf68colebrook.pdf Queer Vitalism]
+;Geoffrey P. Hammond, Adrian B. Winnett
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/4/1195 The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique]
+;Bruno Latour
+:[http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/124-GAIA-LONDON-SPEAP_0.pdf Waiting for Gaia. Composing the Common World through Arts and Politics]
+;Takeshi Naganuma
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/4/827 An Astrobiological View on Sustainable Life]
+;Dorion Sagan, Jessica Hope Whiteside
+:[http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/sagan_whiteside_05_sm.pdf Gradient Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life]
+;Eric D. Schneider &amp; Dorion Sagan
+:[http://www.intothecool.com/index.php Into the Cool: Energy Flows, Thermodynamics, and Life]
+;Isabelle Stengers, with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi
+:[http://www.inflexions.org/n3_stengershtml.html History through the Middle: Between Macro and Micropolitics]
-== Energy Flows: Powering Cosmopolitics  ==
+=== <br>Energy Matters: Entangling Physis and Semiosis  ===
-Flux and flows ...&nbsp;Inflexions
+;Karen Barad
+:[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/barad.pdf Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come]
+;Henri Bergson
+:[http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7048563M/Mind-energy_lectures_and_essays Mind-Energy. Lectures and Essays]
+;Søren Brier, ed.
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/cybersemiotics-paradigms Cybersemiotics]&nbsp;(special issue of ''Entropy''). Click for an overview of the 11 papers published in this volume.<br>
+;Peter Harries-Jones
+:[http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/12/2359 Bioentropy, Aesthetics and Meta-dualism: The Transdisciplinary Ecology of Gregory Bateson]
+;Manuela Rossini
+:[http://intertheory.org/rossini To the Dogs: Companion Speciesism and the New Feminist Materialism]
+;Isabelle Stengers
+:[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/stengers.pdf Energy is Conserved!]
+;Günther Witzany
+:[http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toevolj/articles/V002/44TOEVOLJ.pdf Bio-Communication of Bacteria and their Evolutionary Roots in Natural Genome Editing Competences of Viruses]
-Vitalism ... ener-chi ...<br>
+== Energetic Art  ==
-== Energy Matters: Entangling Physis and Signification  ==
+;Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam&nbsp;
+:[http://www.boijmans.nl/en/10/press/pressitem/255 New Energy in Design and Art]
+;Tate Modern&nbsp;
+:[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/energy-and-process Level 5: Energy and Process]
+;Zane Berzina&nbsp;
+:[http://www.zaneberzina.com/e-staticshadows.htm e-static shadows]
+;Anne Blonstein&nbsp;
+:[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/livibl_blonstein_energy.pdf Energy]
+;Sher Doruff&nbsp;
+:[http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_4/n4_doruff.html ZeNeZ]
+;Anthony Dunne &nbsp;&nbsp;
+:[http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11578 Hertzian Tales]
+;Olafur Eliasson
+;[http://www.littlesun.com Little Sun]
+;Bill Seaman&nbsp;
+:[http://www.billseaman.com Recombinant Poetics]
-From energy to information ... meaning systems ...
+== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Energy/Attributions Attributions]  ==
-See also "biosemiotics" ...<br>
+== A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book  ==
-== Bibliography  ==
+;[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/Energy_Connections.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 14th October 2012]
-Barad
-Beer
-Bergson
-Clarke
-Clarke &amp; Henderson (eds)
-Kirby
-Schneider &amp; Kay
-Seaman
-Stengers
-more
-== Articles (open-access or permission to republish permitted/requested)  ==
-=== '''Energy Forms:&nbsp;TransForming Dynamics<br>'''  ===
-Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (2011)<br>[http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/3/460/pdf Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation]
-Gordana Dodig-Cmkovic, ed. (forthcoming)<br>[http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/matter/ Information and Energy/Matter]
-Eugen Hecht (2003)<br>[http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTEAH-ft/vol_41/iss_8/486_1.html An Historico-Critical Account of Potential Energy: Is ''PE'' Really Real?]&nbsp;
-Nophea Sasaki, Toshiaki Owari and Francis E. Putz (2011)<br>[http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/7/1051/pdf Time To Substitute Bioenergy for Nuclear Power in Japan]'''<br>'''
-Libb Thims (2009)<br>[http://knol.google.com/k/human-thermodynamics# Human Thermodynamics. The study of heat and work interactions in human life processes]
-=== '''Energy Flows: Empowering Cosmopolitics<br>'''  ===
-Eric J. Chaisson (2005)(permission to upload PDF granted, link to author's website)<br>Follow the Energy: Relevance of Cosmic Evolution for Human History
-Clare Colebrook (2010)<br>[http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/articles/nf68colebrook.pdf Queer Vitalism]
-Geoffrey P. Hammond and Adrian B. Winnett (2009)<br>[http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/4/1195/pdf The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique]
-Dorion Sagan and Jessica Hope Whiteside (2004)(permission requested with MIT)<br>Gradient Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life
-Isabelle Stengers, with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi (2008)<br>[http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_4/n3_stengershtml.html History through the Middle: Between Macro and Micropolitics]
-Günther Witzany (2008)<br>[http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toevolj/openaccess2.htm Bio-Communication of Bacteria and their Evolutionary Roots in Natural Genome Editing Competences of Viruses]
-=== '''Energy Matters: Entangling Physis and Signification'''<br>  ===
-Karen Barad (2011)(permission requested with EUP)<br>Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come<br>
-Soeren Brier (2003)
-[http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/3 The Cybersemiotic Model of Communication: An Evolutionary Model at the Threshold between Semiosis and Informational Exchange]
-[[]]Soeren Brier, ed. (2010)<br>[http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/cybersemiotics-paradigms Cybersemiotics]&nbsp;(special issue of ''Entropy'')
-Bill Seaman &amp; Otto Rössler (2008)<br>[http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/tear/6/1 Neosentience - a new branch of sceintific and poetic inquiry related to artificial intelligence]
-== [[]]<br>Energetic Art<br>  ==
-=== '''Zane Berzina'''  ===
-[http://www.zaneberzina.com/e-staticshadows.htm e-static shadows]<br>
-=== '''Anthony Dunne'''  ===
-[http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/books/399/0 Hertzian Tales]
-=== '''Bill Seaman'''  ===
-[http://www.billseaman.com Recombinant Poetics]<br>
-<br>
-== Attributions  ==
-Cover image: e-static shadows. Licence: © Zane Berzina; courtesy Zane Berzina (www.zaneberzina.com).
-Colebrook, Clare (2010) 'Queer Vitalism', ''New Formations'' 68: 77-92. http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/articles/nf68colebrook.pdf<br>Licence:&nbsp;© Lawrence and Wishart. Permission to include this article (PDF) granted by the publisher, the journal editor and the author.&nbsp;
-Thims, Libb (2009) 'Human Thermodynamics. The study of heat and work interactions in human life processes', v. 21, ''Knol'', Feb 17.&nbsp;<br>http://knol.google.com/k/human-thermodynamics#<br>Licence: @ Libb Thims. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Public License [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode CCPL].<br>
-== [[Image:Energy.jpg|right|318x450px|Energy.jpg]] ==

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Energy Connections: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 08:45, 27 November 2023

Contents

Introduction: Energy as a Nomadic Concept

Energy Forms: TransForming Dynamics

Energy Flows: Empowering Cosmopolitics

Energy Matters: Entangling Physis and Semiosis

Energetic Art

Attributions

A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book