Jimmy Carter, “Solar Energy Remarks Announcing Administration Proposals,” June 20, 1979 →.
See “This Day In History: June 20, 1979: Solar-Energy system installed at White House,” HistoryChannel.com →.
A “solar economy” certainly of a different order than the one introduced by Georges Bataille and further developed by Reza Negarestani “as the energetic model of dissipation inherent to the Sun.” See Reza Negarestani, “Solar Inferno and the Earthbound Abyss” (2010) →.
The latter term was coined in 1996 by biologist David Schwartzman, who advocated “solarization along with containment of the technosphere” as “material prerequisites for a global civilization realizing the Marxian concept of communism, while optimizing its relations to nature.” See David Schwartzman, “Solar Communism,” Science & Society vol. 60, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 307–331. See also Peter D. Schwartzman and David W. Schwartzman, “A Solar Transition Is Possible,” Institute for Policy Research & Development (March 2011) →; and the Schwartzmans’ Solar Utopia website →.
See Hemauer and Keller’s No. 1 Sun Engine project website →.
Daniel M. Berman and John T. O’Connor, Who Owns the Sun?: People, Politics, and the Struggle for Solar Economy (White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1996), xvii.
Ibid.
Ibid., 239–240.
Hermann Scheer, A Solar Manifesto, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2005): 10.
Garrett Hering, “4 Reasons the Ivanpah Plant Is Not the Future of Solar,” GreenBiz (February 19, 2014) →.
“A non-profit education, art and research organization, founded in 1994, dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.”
See The Center for Land Use Interpretation, “Major Solar Power Plants in the USA” →. The exhibition was titled “Solar Boom: Sun-Powered Electrical Plants in the USA.”
See →.
James Meyer, “No More Scale: The Experience of Size in Contemporary Sculpture,” Artforum (Summer 2004): 223. See also Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex (London: Verso, 2011).
Ole W. Fischer, “Atmospheres: Architectural Spaces between Critical Reading and Immersive Presence,” field: a free journal for architecture vol. 1, no. 1 (2007): 39.
Quoted in “About the installation: understanding the project,” Tate website, 2003 →.
See the Little Sun website →. Eliasson’s inspiration for this project was his first-hand knowledge of the poverty faced by many East Africans. In 2005 he founded, together with his partner Marianne Krogh Jensen, 121 Ethiopia, a small NGO based in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Zurich supporting Ethiopian orphans in their often difficult transition into permanent homes. See →.
See the Little Sun website →. Eliasson’s inspiration for this project was his first-hand knowledge of the poverty faced by many East Africans. In 2005 he founded, together with his partner Marianne Krogh Jensen, 121 Ethiopia, a small NGO based in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Zurich supporting Ethiopian orphans in their often difficult transition into permanent homes. See →.
Information provided at →.
Olafur Eliasson, “Museums Are Radical,” in Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, ed. Susan May (London: Tate Publishing, 2003), 138.
Jacques Derrida, “White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy,” New Literary History 6, no. 1 (Autumn, 1974): 5–74, here 52.
William Simmons, “Glenn Ligon and Gertrude Stein: Beyond Words,” The Harvard Undergraduate Journal vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 28–32, here 30.
Ibid.
Derrida is quoting Ferdinand de Saussure when he says that it is “impossible to fix even the value of the signifier ‘sun’ without considering its surroundings: in some languages it is not possible to say ‘sit in the sun’” (Derrida, “White Mythology,” 17).
Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants, foreword by Colm Tóibín (London: Hesperus Press, 2003), 16.
Ibid., 24. The German translation of the last sentence has become the title of a great 1970 film by Swiss director Daniel Schmid (Thut alles im Finstern, eurem Herrn das Licht zu ersparen).
See the instructive chapter “Dimming the Sun” in Naomi Klein’s helpful new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 256ff.
See, for example, Daniel Freund, American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012); Mohamed Boubekri, Daylighting: Architecture and Health Building Design Strategies (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008).
Sean Cubitt, “Electric Light and Electricity,” Theory, Culture & Society vol. 30, no. 7/8 (2013): 309–323, here 319.
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 259.