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The ability to artificially cool environments and living entities has driven a powerful set of human imaginaries, all informed by tropes of control: new found abilities to stop and start life at will, to secure and store foods that would otherwise be geographically unavailable, to occupy spaces normally unsympathetic to human life, and to generate forms of knowledge that can now be successfully archived in artificial brains that sit outside conventional bodily housings.
In this lecture, Prof. Parry will chart the complex historiographies and geographies of artificial cooling, demonstrating both what these technological fantasies have made possible, but also the costs that we, as a human race, may pay for their realisation.
The lecture will take place as part of the project’s first internal workshop at KWI from 6 January to 8 January 2025.
Speaker
Bronwyn Parry, Australian National University
MODERATOR
Stefan Höhne, KWI
PARTICIPATION IN PERSON
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ORGANIZERS
ERC Synergy Grant Project The Cultures of the Cryosphere / The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
01/07/2025 18:30 - 01/07/2025
Event venue:
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Energy, Environment / ecology, Geosciences, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
12/17/2024
Sender/author:
Miriam Wienhold
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event78378
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