Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
After the twentieth century celebrated technology as a way to achieve planetary unity and control, the twenty-first demonstrates how technology, nature, and human culture seem to combine in increasingly disorienting compositions. What governs this constitution (or collision) of forces? What are the contingent, strategic, or cascading events and networks that form durable apparatuses among them? The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene in a series of inquisitive, multiday events taking place annually at HKW and several publication outlets.
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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
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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
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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
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The Technosphere, Now
How did we end up in this world of technological vertigo? This dilemma was the main theme of The Technosphere, Now, a showcase held on October 2, 2015.
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, Reflection, Agency, Agriculture, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Critical materials, Embodiment, Extraction, Future, Technosphere, History, Imaginary
- projectRosi Braidotti, Louis Chude-Sokei, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Peter K. Haff, Alexander Ilichevsky, Katrin Klingan, Esther Leslie, Lydia H. Liu, Luciana Parisi, Jürgen Renn, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer, Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Tresch, Kathryn Yusoff
Technosphäre Publication
The German publication Technosphäre collects contributions thinking through the conditions and evolution of this new Earth system player. Included here are two selections from the book in English translation: the editorial introduction and a conversation between Peter K. Haff and Jürgen Renn.
Conversation, Mapping, Storytelling, Communicating, Adaptation, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Critical materials, Deep time, Technosphere, Future, Disciplinarity, Knowledge infrastructure
