Energiewende erzählen. Literatur, Kunst, Ressourcen
Ingo Uhlig

Sun, wind, water. Oil, gas, uranium, coal. We live at close quarters with these forms of energy and natural resources, with the technology and infrastructures surrounding them. It is becoming increasingly clear to us that we need to refurbish this space and that many things must be rebuilt as a matter of urgency. Yet the energy space does not just have a technical and a material side, it is also woven through with a tissue of stories. Technical innovations bring with them their own worlds of imagery and texts: the story of energy is a history of its narratives. This volume of essays examines the radical changes in energy over the last 250 years, approached in terms of perception, art, and literature. Here, most space is given over to the ”energy revolution“ as an infrastructural and narrative project. The work of ecological reconstruction and transformation is done outside, in the wind, sun, and rain, and it is enacted too in our perceptions and ideas and in the stories that we tell.
Ingo Uhlig, b. 1976, is a cultural scientist with an interest in the future and history of the energy revolution.