Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Modelling the Energy Transition: Cultures - Visions - Narratives, R. M, Erdbeer, V. Hagenmeyer and K. Stierstorfer.- Part I: Transparent Modelling: Revisiting Model Theory.- Theories, Modelling and Empirical Support, B. van Fraassen.- Modelling in Experimentation, H-J. Rheinberger.- Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare: Scientific Models in a Static and a Dynamic Perspective, L. Magnani.- Modelling Objectively, N, Cartwright, F. Ray.- Basic Operations of Model Building in Literary Studies, D. Tenev.- Part II: Modelling the Energy Transition 1: Technology and Practice.- On the Art of Electric Power System Modelling and Simulation for Integrated Transmission-Distribution Analysis, U. Kuehnapfel, V. Hagemeyer.- Daily Streamflow Forecasting using an Enhanced LSTM Neural Network Model, V. Eniola et al.- Open Models areNot Enough: Advancing Energy System Modelling Towards Practical Usefulness, F. Lombardi et al.- Part III: Modelling the Energy Transition 2: Societal and Cultural Perspectives.- Backcasting: Prototyping Future Ontologies by Backward Chaining Possible Futures, G. Gramelsberger.- Indicator Politics: Modelling Societal Problems under Real-World Conditions, S. Boeschen.- Understanding Petromodernity: Oil as a Medium between Geology, Technology, and Different Types of History, B. Steininger.- Part IV: The Energy Imaginary: Model Media in Literature and Art.- Literary Models of/for Resilience in Juliana Spahr's "The Transformation" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future", J. Dorson.- Modelling the Future with Miniature Worlds, O. Eide.- Models in Art: A Visual Approach to Energy Transition, T. Becker.
