Fall 2022 Futurities Lecture Series
Lecture by Paul Edwards, Stanford University
What we call “technology” today involves intensely concentrated metabolic processes, ingesting and transforming energy and materials on a planetary scale. Techno-metabolism also concentrates and compresses time. Its temporalities include Earth's deep past (fossil fuels, minerals) and its present (biological primary production). The Anthropocene epoch - with humanity as a geological force - now appears likely to consume, as well, the human future, potentially to extinction.
18 ноя 2022
