Modelling the Energy Transition : Cultures, Visions, Narratives / Robert Matthias Erdbeer.

Poetics of Modelling -- Modelling the Energy Transition -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Energy Transition and its Narratives—A Challenge for Model Theory -- Transparent Modelling. Revisiting Model Theory -- Modelling the Energy Transition 1: Technology in Practice -- Modelling the Energy Transition 2: Societal and Cultural Futures -- The Energy Imaginary. Model Media in Literature and the Arts -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

This open access book reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. Focusing on modelling both as a cultural technique and as a strategy of innovation, the chapters provided in this volume throw into relief the visions, but also the blind spots of modelling the challenges of climate change. Thus, in a rare encounter, major voices from the Sciences and the Humanities, from Energy Systems Design, Mechanical Engineering, Theory of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Literary Studies and the Arts, have gathered here to overcome the cultural divide between the technological and the societal dimensions of this global task. In doing so, they offer a new form of model criticism, pointing to the impacts of what may be termed the 'Energy Imaginary' on the technosocial mindsets of our time.

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