Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions

dc.contributor.editorDiamanti, Jeff
dc.contributor.editorHowe, Cymene
dc.contributor.editorMoore, Amelia
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-23T13:01:25Z
dc.date.available2024-05-23T13:01:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-22
dc.date.updated2024-05-23T13:01:24Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.descriptionFunder: Rice University; ror: https://ror.org/008zs3103
dc.description.abstractSolarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life. The authors propose that a different set of questions becomes possible when the material specificities of solar become the compass for thought, prompting us to uncover our relationship to the sun. How does solarity materialize in the bodies and lives of humans and non-humans now and in the future? What can we learn if we no longer take the sun for granted? How do we continue to persist on a planet that is so intimately bound up in a state of love, fear, and dependence on this primary source of all living energy? Each of the essays in Solarities take solar radiation as an interpretive lens that takes multiple forms, often transforming as it does so. Solarities draws inspiration from Black ecologies, Indigenous philosophy, feminist science & technology studies, and more-than-human discussions in the human sciences, recognizing the phenomenological and ontological openings they make available. The authors understand solarity as an energy source (channeled through photovoltaic cells, for example), but the essays gathered here focus on the lives that solarity creates or impedes. The experimental task is to find how solarities work their way into materials and processes across our work, seeking out the particular influences of solarity in making being(s). These relations are core to thinking the elemental conditions of solarity, since it is through particular forms of focalizing the sun that life is sustained, or made to wither, across the planet. In these ways, the elemental condition of solarity is at once hyper-particular and also shared across organic and inorganic bodies, conditioned by physical form and material composition. Throughout the collection, the authors explore how solarity appears or recedes from view when we concentrate our attentions on it, surfacing the existential omnipresence of the sun to open new thought possibilities, inspire new actions, and refract new dimensions of socionatural encounter.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781685711146
dc.identifier.isbn9781685711153
dc.identifier.otherfecc033f-919b-4d98-ab32-c6fb19dfb7e8
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/343
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectJHMC
dc.subjectPGS
dc.subjectSCI098030
dc.subjectSOC002010
dc.subjectSOC041000
dc.subjectTHVS
dc.subjectanthropocene
dc.subjectbeing
dc.subjectbodies
dc.subjectelements
dc.subjectinfrastructure
dc.subjectmaterials
dc.subjectrelationality
dc.subjectsolar
dc.titleSolarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
dcterms.accessRightsEmbargo: none
organization.legalNameUniversity of Amsterdam
organization.legalNameRice University
organization.legalNameUniversity of Rhode Island

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