Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life. The authors propose that a different set of questions becomes possible when the material specificities of solar become the compass f…
Carving out the narrowed girth of southern Mexico, the Isthmus of Tehu-antepec is home to a anemometric quality that is nearly unmatched. Wind is valuable here, its steady pulse an ideal quotient of kinetic force to turn the blades of turbines that, in turn, make electricity. With this wind develop-ment might follow; with this wind new wealth might follow. And these are two of the …