Welcome to the digital archive of our 2024 conference, Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges. Watch recordings of our panel sessions, workshops and keynote lectures.
Panel 1: Counter Energies
Rosemin Keshvani, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London, Dynamics, Mechanics and Life: Kant’s Critique of the ‘Grass Blade’
Finian Worrall, CRMEP, Kingston University London, Energy as Ecological Currency: The ‘Economic’ Approach to Ecosystem Science
Tiger Liu, CRMEP, Kingston University London, Against General Economy: A Critique of Bataillean Politics of Energy
Gabriella Daris, CRMEP, Kingston University London, The Volcanic Energy of Imagination in Castoriadis’ Conception of Society
Panel 2: Diffractions & Matterings
Stephanie Gray, Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Entangled Jewish Temporalities: Zionist Settler Colonialism in the Anthropocene
Pedro Brea, University of Colorado (Boulder & Denver), Energy and the Past that was Never Present: Towards a Hauntology of Energy
Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, Entanglements of Energy and Time in Barad’s Quantum Mechanics
Terra Schwerin Rowe, University of North Texas, Transition or Transformation?: Barad and Energy Humanities on Transition Temporalities
Panel 3: Lived Imaginaries
Leon Hirt, University of Cambridge & University of Geneva, Is it Time to Clean up our Atmosphere? A Review
Saoirse Amira Anis, A Garden of Hesperides Woven and Unwoven over Time
Jessica Saxby, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne, Imperial Botany: Extraction, Transfer, Erasure
Giovanni Frigo, Roman Meinhold, Daniel Wuebben, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Mahidol University / Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Radical Environmentalism and Energy Justice: Emerging Tensions in Energy Transitions
Panel 4: Electrics & Magnetics
Ingrid Koenig, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Wandering the Magnetosphere
Duncan Robertson, Uniarts Helsinki, Helen Electricity Worries about her Impending Doom
Justus Schäfer, Participatory Alter-automation as Means for Political-libidinal De-proletarianisation
Panel 5: Computing Energy in Materio
Sha Xin Wei, Arizona State University, Metabolism as Material-Energetic Computation?
Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra, Arizona State University, Fluidics and Materialist Logics
Ramón del Buey Cañas and Violeta Garrido Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Universidad de Granada, Exergy and Ecological Economics
Andrés Saenz De Sicilia, Northeastern University London, Metabolism and Capitalist Social Form
Panel 6: Libidinal Pulsations
Iljoon Park, Wonkwang University, Energetic De-Compostion: Ontic Extendibility
Julia Pond, Kingston University, Body, Poetry, Economy: Dancing New Energetic Directions for Capital
Ashley Woodward, University of Dundee, Libidinal Energetic Aesthetics
Panel 7: (In)organic Frequencies
Léa Dreyer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Tacit Energetic Knowledges in Lars Fredrikson’s Sound Art
Josephine Ellis, Bern Academy of the Arts, University of Bern, Too Good to Be Food? On Our (Art’s) Being Edible
Breck Furnas, University of California, San Diego Lapland as a Lab: Aesthetic Models for Mineral Mining
Barbara Larson, University of West Florida, Art as Effusive Energy: Herbert Spencer and Gerard Baldwin Brown
Panel 8: The Embers of Fogo
Kuai Shen, University of Lisbon, The Spectral Signatures of Fire
Verónica Policarpo, University of Lisbon, Following the Energy of Fire: Media Affective Landscapes
José Luís Zêzere, University of Lisbon, Fires of Tomorrow: Navigating the Climate Challenge
