Dear Colleagues,
We are very happy to announce the Energy Dispatch: the second online
publication drop on the website of our multimodal research project,
‘Against
Catastrophe’ .
The aim of this project is to interrogate the concept of catastrophe and
explore anti-catastrophic practices to expose the longer-term structural
causes and implications of catastrophes and catastrophic thinking,
rhetoric, and imaginaries. The focus throughout is on how novel approaches
in design, architecture, and technology can open possibilities for
navigating a catastrophic world, but also expand epistemic horizons beyond
apocalyptic thinking. The project outputs include an edited volume, offline
and online exhibitions, and a series of online publications, called
‘Dispatches’.
With ‘Dispatches’ – a short-form, multimedia, online publishing format
– we
hope to move past the news cycle-based temporality of contemporary
catastrophism, as well as traditional academic publishing.
In the second dispatch on “Energy” edited by Johanna Mehl and Moritz
Ingwersen contributors seek out
remediations of catastrophe that reject the dichotomy of utopia and
apocalypse to foreground the uneasy and ambiguous emplacements of energy,
where shifting constellations of power and the imagination, more-than-human
ecologies and socio-technical infrastructures continuously intersect. You
can read the full editorial statement here
. With contributions by Kat
Austen, Dominic Boyer, Jordan B. Kinder, Johanna Mehl, Rhys Williams.
‘Against Catastrophe’ is led by Dr. Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor
and
Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische Universität
Dresden. The core project team led
by Sudipto Basu is based out of Concordia University (Montreal), MIT, and
TU Dresden. With illustrations and design treatment by T.S. Halpern.
‘Against Catastrophe’ is funded by Fonds de recherche du Québec and the
Swiss National Science Foundation, and is part of the larger Governing
Through Design research cluster.
[image: TUdresdenEnergyDispatch3.jpg]
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Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
Postdoctoral researcher | Technical University Dresden
Chair for Digital Cultures
Institute of Linguistics, Languages and Cultural Studies
Department of German and Media Studies
michelle.pfeifer1@tu-dresden.de
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