Maître de conférences, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
stephanie.legallic@orange.fr
Associate Professor, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
sbp65@cornell.edu
Twitter: @SaraBPritchard
In this special issue, we argue that light(s) and darkness(es) should be understood in their multiplicity, and that they constitute two aspects of the same phenomenon. They should, therefore, be studied in relation to each other. The complex dynamics of light and dark are more integral to the…
Doctorant, Arscan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Le développement de la réalité virtuelle a permis, ces dernières décennies, de proposer des reconstitutions réalistes d’éclairage dans les édifices de l’âge du Bronze en Méditerranée orientale et dans le bassin égéen. Lumière et obscurité ont toutefois été étudiées…
Docteur en histoire, Centre Alexandre Koyré / EHESS Paris
Le décalage entre l’idéal policier moderne d'une appréhension homogène – « géométrique » – du tissu urbain grâce à l'éclairage et la réalité de la persistance de zones d'obscurité est particulièrement perceptible pendant les périodes de trouble à l'ordre public. À Paris comme à Barcelone, les…
Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
In the British Raj, colonial lighting oscillated between “Tool of Empire” and everyday technology. While the British used modern lighting to visualize power and accentuate social differences, it was also a contested object of appropriation and protest. In fact, both colonial light and darkness…
LRA – laboratoire d’architecture de Toulouse mathilde.thouron[at]toulouse.archi.fr
La révolution industrielle et ses avancées techniques de l’époque contemporaine favorisèrent dès le 19e s. une incorporation massive du verre dans les constructions architecturales, ce qui permit…
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
This essay takes expert assumptions about light preferences as a starting point for a historical inquiry into what I call imagined sociotechnical communities of light and energy. My argument is that historical energy supply systems produced these imaginaries and vice versa, shifting the scales…
Postdoctoral Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicagokahle@uchicago.edu Twitter: @trishkahle
This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and bargaining leverage for the nation’s coal miners. The anxieties provoked by these blackouts –sexual deviance, urban unrest, spoiled food, lost productivity…
ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University
nick.dunn@lancaster.ac.uk
The artificial but widely held binary conceptions of day versus night find themselves condensed in cities where strategies to recalibrate the nocturnal urban landscape are abundant. This transformation requires considerable energies and technologies to facilitate illumination. The night-time…
Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
This personal essay describes light(s) and darkness(es) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) during polar night in January 2019. Drawing on autoethnographic methods, I also seek to describe how I experienced the remarkable…
