Keyword: Big Data
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Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling
Model, Representation, Big data, Complexity, Computation, Epistemology
- contributionSimon Turner
Shifting Sands or Set in Stone?
Simon Turner reflects on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as both a continual work in progress and a product of centuries of scientific consensus-building.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Field Work, Mapping, Big data, Holocene, Calculation, Consensus, Landscape, History
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Technosphere Magazine
Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future.
Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Film, Modeling, Reflection, Storytelling, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Anthropology, Big data, Capitalism, Complexity, Critical materials, Economy, Extraction, Governance, Infrastructure, System, Human-environment relations
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Conversation, Field Work, Big data, Education, Biodiversity
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Big data, Environmental Justice, Media, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.
Experiment, Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Technoscience, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Equality, Agency, Architecture, Big data, Data, Computation, Network, Urbanism, Transportation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future
- projectTahani Nadim
Data Flows
In which ways do conventional data cultures and practices of archiving preclude, neglect, and overlook the interconnectedness between humans, time scales, and environments? An experiment in ethnographic story-writing.
Field Study, Sensing, Big data, Data, Computation, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectJohn Kim
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge.
Teaching, Storytelling, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Big data, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Water, Technoscience
- projectJaume Valentines-Álvarez, C.I.R.C.E, Staffan Müller-Wille
Seminar: Dating Datafication History, Epistemology and Politics of Big Data
This seminar is devoted to collectively discussing this global and ubiquitous entity of the Anthropocene in its social, gendered, and material contexts.
Monitoring, Big data, History, Governance
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- projectOrit Halpern, Anna Echterhölter, Sophia Roosth, Gerald Nestler, Johnny Golding, Alexander R. Galloway, Julian Oliver, Morehshin Allahyari, Sarah Sharma, Thomas Feuerstein, Marie-Luise Angerer, Elie Ayache, Felix Stalder, Ubermorgen
Switches
The unleashing of the technosphere is, above all, the result of activating and operating numerous tiny switches. With the unfolding of information theory, cybernetics, and the microscopic power of the point-contact transistor, the year 1948 represents the material and theoretical starting point for a universal language of 0s and 1s. Contributions from theory and art oscillate between diagnostic and speculative accounts of the bit’s role in our present.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Big data, Computation, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Model, Network, Cybernetics, Technosphere, Technoscience, System
- contributionJulian Henriques
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways-of-Making of the Dancehall Sound System
Julian Henriques looks at the Jamaican reggae dancehall sound system to explore how this street technology has found creolizing ways to prevail in the neocolonial power struggle between popular culture and Jamaica’s ruling elite.
Case Study, Sound, Reflection, Technosphere, Settler Colonialism, Big data, History
- contributionMatteo Pasquinelli
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly can only be detected against the ground of pattern regularity. Media theorist Matteo Pasquinelli explores the return of the abnormal into politics as a mathematical object.
Data, Big data, Economy
- contributionSvenja Schüffler
KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application
An algorithmic intermediation between the next mega-earthquake and you: instructions for turning risk into facing up to your danger.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Computation, Complexity, System, Disaster, Big data, Care, Seismic
- contributionOlivier Hamant
Suboptimalism
Biology is resilient because it is suboptimal at all scales. The technosphere, however, seems to take the route of increased optimization. Are we doomed?
Reflection, Monitoring, Modeling, Biosphere, Computation, Contingency, Big data, System
- contributionBernard Geoghegan, Stéphane Grumbach, Orit Halpern, Olivier Hamant, Robert Mitchell, Erich Hörl, Mark Hansen
Seminar Reflections: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
Reflection, Complexity, Computation, Governance, Big data, System
- projectBernard Geoghegan, Stéphane Grumbach, Orit Halpern, Olivier Hamant, Robert Mitchell, Mark Hansen, Erich Hörl
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life.
Experiment, Teaching, Conversation, Modeling, Monitoring, Sensing, Case Study, Complexity, Computation, Big data, Technosphere, Technoscience, System, Data, Governance, Sharing economy
- projectPeter L. Galison, Sander van der Leeuw, Claire Pentecost, Sebastian Vehlken
The Scenario Mode
The scenario has become a mode of knowledge of the first order. In fact, “running in scenario mode” seems to be the way in which contemporary existence, through the vision of this exploratory practice and tool, exemplifies learning and researching in and on the Anthropocene itself. This evening deals with the trans-methodical arrangement of scenario building and analysis and its specific formatting through institutional and media-based infrastructures.
Communicating, Film, Storytelling, Teaching, Engagement, Adaptation, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Computation, Deep time, Disaster, Governance, Games, Policy, Radioactivity, Scenario, Waste
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Technosphere × Knowledge
A new component of the Earth system is emerging today driven by the intertwining of natural environments with vast socio-technical forces and increasingly diverse technological species. Technosphere × Knowledge marked the launch of the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Film, Reflection, Modeling, Teaching, Adaptation, Big data, Computation, Consensus, Disciplinarity, Education, Future, Engineering, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Technosphere, Technoscience, Platform, Policy
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jennifer Gabrys, Donald MacKenzie, Birgit Schneider, Mushon Zer-Aviv
Datum: On the Calculus of the Technosphere
Data defines the relationship of the technosphere to itself and the world around it. But where is it? How does it rework the body politic or our biological substratum itself?
Conversation, Engagement, Monitoring, Teaching, Storytelling, Big data, Calculation, Autonomy, Complexity, Computation, Cybernetics, Data, Engineering, Infrastructure, Perception, Model, Socio-ecological design, Technosphere
