Text Energy is the common denominator of form Through this lens forms of all kinds from sun amulets to urban layouts emerge not as static material assemblages but as configurations of energy Following Cara Daggett energy here is understood not merely as a

Energy is the common denominator of form. Through this lens, forms of all kinds, from sun amulets to urban layouts, emerge not as static material assemblages but as configurations of energy. Following Cara Daggett, energy here is understood not merely as a physical quantity but as a political concept, a way of organizing labor, bodies, nature, and power. Yet energy also exceeds its modern framing: it is a substrate to which diverse practices and relations have always existed, cosmological, ritualistic, artisanal, metabolic, most of which precede and overflow the thermodynamic imagination.