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SUMMARY:Environing technologies – shaping\, seeing\, sense-making - Sver
 ker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm)
DTSTART:20220512T153000Z
DTEND:20220512T170000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:One of the major policy concepts of the twentieth century was 
 'the environment'. From an obscure\, partly dubious existence in determini
 stic strands of the scientific register\, this old word rose after World W
 ar II to stardom\, a vulnerable thing to love\, protect and manage with 'g
 overnance' that became global. The environment became the word for some of
  humanity's largest ailments and concerns. But what exactly was it? Around
  and after the Millennium\, it proliferated into a plural set of concepts\
 , emphasizing different topics and trajectories within the environment: su
 stainability\, climate\, the Earth System\, resilience\, Anthropocene. Som
 e of these were new. Others were old\, gaining new meaning as they enrolle
 d in the evolving\, escalating human-Earth entanglement. To historians it 
 may sometimes seem as if the world resides in concepts and we have certain
 ly learned from Reinhart Koselleck that considering concepts can be very p
 roductive. With 'the environment'\, it is also very tangibly something tha
 t has a material existence\, which draws on human intervention. One way of
  thinking about the rise of the modern environment is to evoke 'technology
 '. In this lecture\, I will talk about 'environing technologies'. I will e
 xplore some of the ways we can think about what technologies do when they 
 shape the material environment that is now present on all possible scales 
 of the Planet\, but also how technologies – observational\, computationa
 l\, visual\, economic – were essential in shaping the policy concept.
LOCATION:Department of Zoology\, Main Lecture Theatre
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