Tag: technology
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This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods
Category: UncategorizedTags: aesthetics, agriculture, fermentation, food production, human-nonhuman relations, narrative, technologyIn his public lecture “Unsoiled: The Promise of Future Foods” organized by the Political Ecologies Seminar (UvA), Rhys Williams explores the narratives and aesthetics mobilised by radical developments in food production technologies, and asks what new formal relations between human and non-human nature they might bring into being. The accompanying Graduate…
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EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Category: UncategorizedTags: animals, birdhouses, design, environmental humanities, event, human-animal-relations, lecture, non-human animals, stavanger, technologyFinn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
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Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene
Category: NewsLecture by Christopher Preston at the University of Amsterdam In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy officially found that Earth has entered the Anthropocene. The purpose of this talk is to raise some questions surrounding the naming of this new epoch and to challenge some…