Seminar: Techno-Metabolism
In the course of its productive and consumptive functions, the technosphere transforms energy, materials, and information. It uses energy in part to transform information, while information guides the metabolism of energy.
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Prologue
“Increasingly we see a reuse of data that has previously been discarded as waste.” Paul N. Edwards, Gabrielle Hecht, and Jonas Loh on the similarities, interactions, and frictions between the biosphere, lithosphere, and technosphere as well as the role of visualization in the seminar.
- contributionPaul N. Edwards, Gabrielle Hecht
Taking on the Technosphere: A Kitchen Debate
“Now you’re sounding even weirder than Peter Haff.” The gloves are off! A lively dispute about the usefulness of the Technosphere concept in general.
Conversation, Energy, Metabolism, Technoscience, Technosphere, System, Autonomy
- contributionDavid Habets, Cameron Hu, Ivo Louro, Axel Schmidt, Stefan Schäfer
Frontier Moods
It is a chemical element already being used to regulate the mood of bipolar patients, what role will it play in balancing the volatile moods of sun and wind? A tour de force through the wonderland of Lithium.
Film, Migration, Speculative, Capitalism
- contributionIrma Allen, Cyrus Hester, Jesse Peterson
Metabolic Knowledge Flows
By whom and where was the information digested, processed, prepared, and served that went on to become Peter Haff’s legendary Technosphere Paper? An Investigation.
Mapping, Knowledge transformation, Metabolism, Data
- contributionMargarida Mendes
Molecular Colonialism
Life cannot be coded. With unexpected genetic deviations, matter bites back at the colonizing hand of man.
Case Study, Reflection, Settler Colonialism, Biosphere, Agriculture, Economy, Data, Colonialism, Monsanto
- contributionJesse Peterson, Alexander Zahara
Anthropocene Adjustments
If the technosphere is a condition of the Anthropocene, we ought to acknowledge the dangers of making technology seem “natural.” Critical discard studies can help us make visible the violence that has gone into making the technosphere.
Case Study, Reflection, Data, Economy, Metabolism, Technosphere, Waste
