Rhys Williams
He/His
Lecturer in Energy & Environmental Humanities
Rhys Williams works on the intersection between fantasy and narrative on the one hand, and energy, ecology, and infrastructure on the other. He is a member of the Petrocultures Research Group and the After Oil Research Group, and organises the Energy and Ecology Group at Glasgow. His current work is on contemporary imaginaries and infrastructures of energy, food, and water, some of which has been published in Open Library of Humanities and South Atlantic Quarterly.
Projects
Rhys is (I am? Whichever is appropriate) currently working on a project on future imaginaries of food, water, and energy infrastructures and the narratives with which they are entangled. The project is particularly interested in techno-utopian narratives of weightlessness and decoupling, of achieving escape velocity from so-called natural limits and installing an infinite productive capacity in its place.
Publications
(Forthcoming) ‘Turning Towards the Sun: The Solarity and Singularity of New Food’. In South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 1, 2021
(2019) ‘“This Shining Confluence of Magic and Technology”: Solarpunk, Energy Imaginaries, and the Infrastructures of Solarity’. In Powering the Future, ed. Graeme Macdonald, special issue of Open Library of the Humanities.