Solar Delight, Electric Vulnerability and Energy Squandering : Capacities of a More Just Organisation of Electricity?
2021
Abstract
As the first ethnographic study of Czech solar micro-producers this chapter explores what affects, bodies and environments materialize in practices of solar micro-generation with and beyond racialized sexual fantasies of comfort and control. In a mode of analysis that is both critical and constructive the paper shows how householders’ joy in digital immersion, practices of timing energy use and collaborating with the rhythms of the sun, and squandering electricity might charge a different ‘electric sublime’ that holds together the ability to tap into abundant solar flows and apprehends a differential electric vulnerability rather than the promise of energy accumulation.