Part manifesto, part compilation, this chapter explains how and why the words we choose make a difference to the futures we make. Drawing on philosophy and histories of science, as well as Ursula K. Le Guin, this chapter is about the rythmn in our scientific writing, and is rythmn in writing. All academics are professional…
With 20 different authors, a card game, five theses, a graphic novel, an interview, pages to cut out, and much more, Energy Worlds in Experiment is just that. And it’s Open Access and free to download as well. This beautifully illustrated (by Neil Ford) edited book is published by Mattering Press and was created as…
Unda: A Graphic Novel of Energy Encounters has finally hit the shelves and screens! Over a year in the making, this graphic chapter is a massive collaboration with the fabulous Cymene Howe (Professor of Anthropology at Rice University) and Geoffrey C. Bowker (Professor at Department of Informatics UCI), with the amazing graphic illustrator Neil Ford,…
Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and myself returned to our Relocating Innovation project to reflect on the postcards method we developed in our project. To find unexpected connections between our three disparate sites of innovation – the Hungarian Parliament, Silicon Valley, and the Orkney islands – we wrote and sent postcards to each other online from…
Performed and published as part of International Women’s Day in Shoreline of Infinity 22/23, the award-winning Scottish sci-fi magazine. ‘The Cuddle Stop’ is a short story about a culture of human connection whilst living and working alone in the void. Read ‘The Cuddle Stop’ in Shoreline of Infinity 23 (alongside Ken MacLeod and many many…
Book News Awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Prize 2021 for its distinctive social and political relevance and contribution to public debate and social change. Awarded by Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Read more about the prize. “In Energy at the End of the World infrastructures become visible, palpable, personal and energy becomes something…
As part of our Mozilla Research Grant funded project, Orkney Cloud, I am really excited to announce the publication of our first Orkney Cloud magazine. The magazine is an anthology of Orkney Cloud incubated projects and inspirations; a weaving together of people and possibilities that could become an Orkney Cloud. And it is not comprehensive.…
New book chapter from International network for Social Studies of Marine Energy (ISSMER). As a result of a workshop with representatives from marine energy communities, industry, and policy, we summarised the key ways in which social science and humanities research has a crucial role to play in the development of marine renewable energy. The workshop…
A new book has just been published, authored by members of the International network for Social Studies of Marine Energy (ISSMER). The book is titled ‘Ocean Energy: Governance Challenges for Wave and Tidal Stream Technologies‘ and provides a series of in-depth chapters on the legal, economic, and social concerns around wave and tidal energy technologies.…
This visual poem has just been published in the journal of Cultural Anthropology, as part of their special collection ‘Our Lives with Electric Things’. View the published poem. “Why was the first Pelamis scrapped and not displayed on a plinth?” he asked me. So here is a plinth, perhaps not quite the stone block with…