The project is kickstarting its activities at the University of Konstanz next week in a joint session of the Jour Fixe meetings. On July 31, researchers from the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) and the Zukunftskolleg will participate in a round table to discuss the role of Humanities in the Anthropocene.
I will be providing some impulse in the event together with scholars Udith Dematagoda, Susumu Annaka, and Alexander Etkind. My short talk will begin with a discussion on Technofossils, highlighting how the concept can be useful to bridge the scientific knowledge of geology and the geophysical properties of telematic media. Through this perspective, I seek to highlight Information and Communication Technologies as anthropogenic vectors of energy, and therefore of geophysical alterations in the earthly metabolism, particularly since the so-called Great Acceleration of the mid-1950’s. This proposal is not meant to insist on outmoded distinctions between nature and culture, or the organic and the technological, but instead it seeks to probe how can we better understand the role of widely geodistributed telematics in the Anthropocene. In an epoch marked at the same time by anthropogenically generated environmental upheavals and by renewed promises of sustainable development, it might be necessary to re-frame our questions concerning technological development. In the face of planetary-scale infrastructures developed for pervasive cloud computing facilities, it is advisable to delve into the fringes between natural sciences and technocultural systems, in order to find where is Media within the Earth and where is the Earth within Media.
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AuthorThis blog is meant to provide a space for discussing the geophysical as well as the the imaginary entanglements between media infrastructures and organic environments. In the coming months, it will be dedicated to my current project, Cloud Gaming Atlas, which is particularly interested in observing and interrogating the infrastructures developed for cloud gaming initiatives in regard to their environmental implications. Additionally, it should also gather information about events and publications related to my project at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Literature, Art and Media of the University of Konstanz. Archives
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