During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …-13 witnessed a return en-mass to ‘archaic’ open fires and wood-burning stoves that locals associate with material poverty, pre-modernity …

For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents … an analysis of developments in EU energy policy given the ongoing realignment of strategic interest. It outlines the …

of modernity tended to portray a secular trend toward the triumph of rationalized social order centered in diachronic … modernity through the articulation of rationalized diachronic time with the sacred strategic time of apocalyptically framed … 'holy war.' Overall, the 'empire of modernity' is a hybrid formation that bridges diachronic and strategic temporalities …