101 research outputs found
Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centred History of Energy Use
No full textFire is a force that links everyday human activities to some of the most powerful energetic movements of the Earth. Drawing together the energy-centred social theory of Georges Bataille, the fire-centred environmental history of Stephen Pyne, and the work of a number of ‘pyrotechnology’ scholars, the paper proposes that the generalized study of combustion is a key to contextualizing human energetic practices within a broader ‘economy’ of terrestrial and cosmic energy flows. We examine the relatively recent turn towards fossil-fuelled ‘internal combustion’ in the light of a much longer human history of ‘broadcast’ burning of vegetation and of artisanal pyrotechnologies – the use of heat to transform diverse materials. A combustion-centred analysis, it is argued, brings human collective life into closer contact with the geochemical and geologic conditions of earthly existence, while also pointing to the significance of explorative, experimental and even playful dispositions towards energy and matter. © 2014, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved
East of the Wind and West of the Rain
No full textabstract: There are places that rest tangibly on the Earth's surface, and places that flourish only in the imagination, and places that site their existence within a moral geography, and a few places, not many, Bor Island among them, that manage to fuse all these settings together. In truth, Bor belongs with that long tradition of island Arcadias that have attracted Western thinkers since well before Thomas More in 1516 gave them the name they now have: Utopia. What makes Bor Island unique is that its informing theme is fire.This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version & Pyne, Stephen J. (2015). East of the Wind and West of the Rain. ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT, 22(1), 155-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv001 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv00
Scheduling of Hybrid Battery-Supercapacitor Control Instructions for Longevity in Systems with Power Gating
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An Architectural Support for Reduction of In-rush Current in Systems with Instruction Controlled Power Gating
No full textEnergy Efficient Array Initialization Using Loop Unrolling with Partial Gray Code Sequence
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