Seminar: Feral Technologies
Making and Unmaking Multispecies Dumps
This is an exercise in conceptualizing the technosphere as an unintended muddle of multispecies relationships that emerge from contaminated landscapes, postwar rubble, and garbage heaps—in short—dumps. Such a muddle may be considered through feral technologies—novel and weedy capacities for materially significant change.
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Prologue
“We want to expand the term technology to also think about multispecies lives that become part of human-made technologies but then turn feral.” Elaine Gan, Bettina Stoetzer, and Anna Tsing on why cows are part of the technosphere, and the role of an abandoned train depot in the seminar.
- contributionLissette Olivares
Feral Technologies: Seminar Report
From David Lynch’s Blue Velvet to Berlin’s ruderal ecology: a video report.
Reflection, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Adaptation
- contributionElaine Gan, Caroline Picard, Bettina Stoetzer
The Multispecies World of Technology
A conversation on ruderal ecologies, unintended landscape design and the pitfalls of Anthropocene discourse.
Conversation, Field Work, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Urbanism, Ecology
- contributionLeah Aronowsky, Lesley J. F. Green, Lissette Olivares, Debra Solomon
5 Meters a Walk
The spray, the trace, the poop. A mico-zine about materialities and temporailities at the edge of the road.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Critical materials, Embodiment
- contributionOlivier Hamant, Lars Kulik, Jesse Peterson, Perrin Selcer, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
T/rain Lines
Experimental group study project
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Time
Contributors
Participants
Irma Allen
Kayla Anderson
Leah Aronowsky
Sara Bonfanti
Thiago Cardoso
Dean Chahim
Sria Chatterjee
Nadia Christidi
Régine Debatty
Maria Fernanda Agudelo Ganem
Lesley J. F. Green
Ryan Griffis
David Habets
Cameron Hu
Hanna Husberg
Moses Tinashe Kamanda
Lars Kulik
Nicole Labruto
Peter Lambertz
Jia-Hui Lee
Lissette Olivares
Jesse Peterson
Pierre du Plessis
Angela Rawlings
Perrin Selcer
Debra Solomon
Eliot Storer
Wakana Suzuki
Jol Thomson
Vera Tollmann
Daniele Valisena
Björn Wallsten
Jinyi Wang
Justin Westgate
Kenneth WhitePinar YoldasAlexander Zahara
