Seminar: Governing the Technosphere
How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference.
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Prologue
“How can you bring the global scale back into a metropolitan scale where one can really have a political and cultural effect?“ Brian Holmes and Claire Pentecost on the importance of studying the Technosphere from a local perspective anchored in personal experience and embodied research.
- contributionFinn Müller-Hansen
Economic Framing: Environmental Governance and Teaching Pluralist Economics
What are future decision-makers learning at college today? And how will it effect the direction the Anthropocene is taking? Making the case for a change in the teaching of economics.
Reflection, Monitoring, Teaching, Economy, Human-environment relations, Technosphere, Governance
- contributionBeate Geissler, Ryan Griffis, Brian Holmes, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann
Meet the Technosphere
How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective.
Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Governance, Economy, Urbanism, Technosphere, System, Scale, Great Acceleration
- contributionKarin Knorr-Cetina
Financial Markets and the Technospheres they constitute
When the ticker was replaced by the monitor. A lecture on the information architecture of the global financial market.
Case Study, Reflection, Economy, Agency, System, Data, Epistemology
