ENERGY: A (Philosophy of) Practice

今天，“能源”与我们对化石燃料燃烧的严重依赖有关，化石燃料是取暖、运输和粮食生产所需的。所有这些都受到人为气候变化的威胁。尽管不乏“绿色”能源创新，但许多创新带来的问题比解决的问题还多，瓦哈卡州的风力发电场在恢复殖民关系的同时造成了干旱化(Dunlap 2018)。其中一个原因是能源开采的巨大规模。另一个是支撑这一活动的概念框架：这是能源的来源-转换-最终使用的概念。尽管从亚里士多德到爱因斯坦都可以追溯到一条不间断的探索路线，例如，亚里士多德的能量--启动事物的能力--和心灵--完成行动的力量--从思考杠杆的功能到20世纪发现质量-能量等价性的段落，将能量与技术不可撤销地结合在一起。潜力，也就是可以说的能源的主要“聚合状态”，在这里被简化为最终用途。这就产生了一种“常备储量”的能源观点，将实际能源等同于可用能源：森林是木材生产资源，河流是水电供应者(Heidegger 1977)。如果这个概念看起来过时了，快速浏览一下“零工经济”就会发现，零工劳动者是永久待命的常备储备(SRNICEK 2017)，就像合成生物学表明生物是常备的功能储备一样(Schyfter 2021)。能源人文学科的后学科配置依赖于新唯物主义和死后哲学，近年来发展了对能源政治的批判性理解(Szeman&Boyer 2017)。然而，《能源人文学》主要关注的是能源消费的伦理问题，这虽然很有用，但并没有解决能源概念危机的问题。这个项目试图填补这一空白。主要目的是通过关注以下方面从根本上改变我们对能源的看法：a)能源作为通量-势能连续体，具有复杂的空间、时间、环境和跨物种关系；b)网状(而不是线性)因果关系，它承认自然环境中不断的微观水平变化，但也承认机械和算法环境中的持续微观变化；c)对文化上的小型化，如土著、亚洲和艺术--通常被认为不是真正严重的--能源实践的研究，这些做法挑战了简单化和环境灾难性的提取-使用范例；D)一种非二元论的分析方法，其中内容(能量的来源)不与方法(其转化技术)分开。每个子项目都侧重于以能源为主题的实践--艺术、仪式和土著(北美/亚洲)“了解”实践(将观察和参与结合在一起的持续经验实践)，以揭示不同的能量集群：1.共振询问物理、空间、时间、植物和动物能量2.气场(或辐射)探索文化-虚拟能量3.装配(或动力学)调查来自安排和装置的能量该项目使用跨学科方法-哲学和文化分析、案例研究、艺术学(表演、视觉和自动民族志技术)，和3D可视化，以便：a)绘制公认的和微妙的能量转换的动态图；B)对非显性能源渠道产生新的见解；c)重新评估艺术和边缘化的文化能源做法的价值，及其与主流能源做法的关系；d)产生关于建筑、建造、安排、改造、推进和补救的理论和实践知识。

Today, 'energy' is associated with our vital dependence on the combustion of fossil fuels, needed for heating, transportation, and food production. All are threatened by anthropogenic climate change. Although there is no shortage of 'green' energy innovations, many cause more problems than they solve, as the example of wind farms in Oaxaca, which caused aridification while reinstating colonial relationships, shows (Dunlap 2018). One reason for this is the sheer volume of energy extraction. The other is the conceptual framework that underpins this activity: this is the source-conversion-end-use concept of energy.Despite the fact that an unbroken line of inquiry can be traced from Aristotle to Einstein, taking in, for instance, Aristotle's energeia - the ability to set things in motion - and entelecheia - the power of a completed action - the passage from pondering the functioning of levers to the discovery of mass-energy equivalence in the 20th century, wedded energy irrevocably to technology. Potentiality, which is energy's main 'aggregate state' so to speak, was here reduced to end-use. This gave rise to a 'standing-reserve' view of energy where the actual is equated with the usable: a forest is a wood-producing resource, a river a hydropower supplier (Heidegger 1977). If this notion seems dated, a quick glance at the 'gig economy' shows gig labourers to be a standing-reserve on permanent call (Srnicek 2017), just like synthetic biology shows living entities to be a standing-reserve of function (Schyfter 2021).Relying on new-materialist and posthumanist philosophy, the post-disciplinary configuration of Energy Humanities has, in recent years, developed a critical understanding of energopolitics (Szeman & Boyer 2017). However, Energy Humanities has focused mostly on the ethics of energy consumption, which, though very useful, doesn't solve the problem of the crisis of the concept of energy. This project seeks to fill this gap.The main aim is to radically change the way we think about energy through a focus on: a) energy as a flux-potentiality continuum, with complex spatial, temporal, environmental and cross-species relationships; b) reticular (rather than linear) causality, which acknowledges constant micro-level change in natural but also machinic and algorithmic environments; c) a study of culturally minoritised, e.g. Indigenous; Asian, and artistic - usually considered as 'not really serious' - energy practices that defy the simplistic and environmentally disastrous extraction-use paradigm; d) a non-dualistic analytical approach where content (the source of energy) is not separate from method (its technology of transformation).ENERGY: A (Philosophy of) Practice is conceptually and organisationally divided into three subprojects. Each of the subprojects focuses on practices that thematise energy - art, rites, and Indigenous (North-American/Asian) 'coming to know' practices (durational-expriential practices that combine observation with participation) in order to shed light on a different cluster of energy: 1. RESONANCE interrogates physical, spatial, temporal, plant, and animal energies 2. AURA (or radiation) explores cultural-virtual energies 3. ASSEMBLAGE (or kinetics) investigates energies arising from arrangements and contraptions The project uses a cross-disciplinary methodology - philosophical and cultural analysis, case studies, artography (performative, visual and auto-ethnographic techniques), and 3D visualisation in order to: a) map the dynamics of acknowledged and subtle energy transformations; b) generate new insights into non-manifest energy channels; c) re-appraise the value of artistic and marginalised cultural energy practices, and their relationship to mainstream energy practices; and d) produce both theoretical and practical, actionable knowledge of building, making, arranging, transforming, propelling and remediating.