What Fuels You?

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Title	What Fuels You?
Contributor	Gretchen Bakke(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.07
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Gretchen Bakke
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2023-11-22
Long abstract	Perhaps, a man name Thomas Turnbull once suggested, perverse economic models are the best way to contrive an economy not based on growth and profits. I have thought about this a lot, playfully. How might one cook up a reward structure for avoiding maxim bang for buck? How might increased efficiency become understood, systemically, as a bastardized version of human activity? How might extraction stop being a thing we do to ourselves (not to mention our planet entire)? Playfully, I took the efficiency of a solar panel (22% rather low all things considered) and turned it around and around in my head, a gobstopper of a percentage. How might that lowness become both metric and goal? What world would we live in if only 22% of our time and effort were directed toward productive work? What minor revolution might that point us toward? Not a goal of 'total this' or 'total that' but 'minor this' and 'minor that’ aimed at a slow attrition from neoliberal economics toward a blooming of a different sort. It should never be about the individual, but that is how I have written it, because to consider who one is, how one works, and what one aspires as if one were a lawnmower (or similar) is such a silly (and perfectly playful) idea.
Page range	pp. 85–92
Print length	8 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	energy transition efficiency solarity grief experimental writing

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Gretchen Bakke

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Heisenberg Position at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Institute for Human-Environment Transitions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6688-8135

Gretchen Bakke holds a Heisenberg Position at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Institute for Human-Environment Transitions at Humboldt University, Berlin and is a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, also in Berlin. Bakke is the author of The Grid, a 2016 Bill Gates pick, and the ebullient 2020 ethnography The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society. She is currently conducting research for a cultural history of the end of fossil fuels in and around the North Sea, leading The Global Mollusc Project at the Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam Germany and writing a series of very serious essays, collectively know as Minor Analytics.