innovative workshop - Disruption By Design: Planetary Programming in the Aftermath of Geopolitics
Matthew Paterson
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An innovative workshop which may be of interest to some.
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Mat
Disruption By Design: Planetary Programming in the Aftermath of Geopolitics
How have design and engineering become forms of political intervention rather than a means of political intervention? What happens when disruption rather than good governance has become the metric of institutional success? This Review of International Studies Forum examines a change in politics marked by unending beta-tests hedged upon the creation of new geopolitical frontiers and lifeforms. From the compulsory exchange of biometric information for faster shipping options, to the fabrication of mountains to increase rainfall in the desert, to the moves beyond this planet to dominate orbital space, asteroids and even Mars, the conversation launched here will interrogate forms of authority and legitimacy being fashioned around concepts and visions of disruptive futures, rather than demonstrations of capability in the present. What does it mean that the management and mobilization of populations are being displaced by practices of statecraft devoted to ‘unprecedented innovation’? And what happens when the grand will to engineer fails, and debts of efficiency, extraction, and extinction accrue?
This event will be organized as a keynote lecture by Nicole Sunday Grove(University of Hawai’i-Manoa) with interventions by Louise Amoore (Durham University), Neel Ahuja (University of California-Santa Cruz) and Charmaine Chua (University of California – Santa Barbara). Talks will be pre-recorded and available online in advance. A live Q&A with the contributors will take place on 5 November 2020 from 17h30-19h00 (BST). Register here.
https://www.bisa.ac.uk/events/disruption-design-planetary-programming-aftermath-geopolitics
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Matthew Paterson
Department of Politics
Research Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL.
Latest book Thinking Ecologically about the Global Political Economy, with Ryan Katz-Rosene
Other recent publications
Shane Gunster, Darren Fleet, Matthew Paterson and Paul Saurette, ‘Why don’t you act like you believe it?’: Competing visions of climate hypocrisy’, Frontiers in Communication, 2018 (6 November). Online first at https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00049.
‘political economies of climate change’: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.506/full with Xavier P-Laberge
‘Narrowing the Climate Field: the symbolic power of authors in the IPCC’s assessment of mitigation’:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12255/full with Hannah Hughes