Visualizing the Anthropocene

Mirzoeff, Nicholas

doi:10.1215/08992363-2392039

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“…In social science and philosophical terms, the Anthropocene Era leads to a transformative cultural shift that is akin to the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Enlightenment was built on a shift from perceiving nature as subsuming the human endeavor, to one in which humankind embarked on the "conquest of nature" and a metaphor of the planet as an enemy to be subdued (Mirzoeff, 2014). In ways that are described below, the Anthropocene Era is an acknowledgement that the scientific method that was essential to the Enlightenment is no longer fully adequate to understand the natural world and our impact on it.…”

Section: Gnosis: the Fundamental Principles Of Institutional Theorymentioning

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Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment

Hoffman

Jennings

2015

Organization & Environment

105

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This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is focused on providing avenues researching the Anthropocene Era. Second, while based on the trajectory of current, accumulated theory and research, our review is forward-looking in its orientation and thus aimed at guiding future work to explore the emergence of a new social reality in Anthropocene Society. We begin by summarizing the scientific research on the Anthropocene Era, then move to its implications for grand and midrange institutional theory principles, and of institutional principles for the study of it. We end with a call to reenergize and reradicalize the organization and the natural environment field to properly address the magnitude and scope of this shift to the Anthropocene.

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Section: Gnosis: the Fundamental Principles Of Institutional Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment

Hoffman

Jennings

2015

Organization & Environment

105

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“…To make history requires ambition. Pioneering work in textual analysis led toward more recent analyses of less obviously ecologically themed works (Mirzoeff 2014;Fay 2018), implicitly but increasingly vocally asserting that nothing is understood when the ecological implications of media are elided. Pioneering work on infrastructures leads toward deeper understanding of how content and form articulate with the machinery of production and its colonial roots (Vaughan 2019;Iheka 2018).…”

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Ecocritique

2019

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“…In Nicholas Mirzoeff's (2014) recent take, it becomes entangled as part of the logic of global political movements such as Occupy, which demand a 'right to look' in an exchange without surplus value. For Mirzoeff (2014: 214), this right is 'aesthetically a priori, philosophically foundational, and historically prior' to a gathering of the common moment; but as I would want to argue, it also picks upon the environmentally produced democratic bads as its engine of political manifestation, for example environmental protests suppressed by denial of air (tear gas).…”

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Issue 29 Introduction: Computing the City

Beverungen¹,

Sprenger²

2017

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Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things are often referred to as prime examples not only of new modes of computing, but of a new paradigm of mediation itself. If Lewis Mumford could already ascribe key characteristics of media -such as storage and transmission -to the city, so the city could in itself be understood as a medium (see Kittler, 1996), then nonetheless something changes considerably once 'the city itself is turning into a constellation of computers', as Michael Batty noted around twenty years ago (1997: 155). Today the city is indeed awash with distributed and networked computation, and many forms of knowledge and practice not only in architecture and urban planning are turning the city into a subject of computational practices while equipping it with computational capacities. Software codes city space and thereby allows for the co-production of its spatiality; more and more space in the city is reliant on code, producing 'code/space' wherein a space simply does not function without software (Kitchin and Dodge, 2011). This themed issue on 'Computing the City', which emerges from a workshop with the same title held at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg in 2014, focuses specifically on the development of urban ubiquitous computing, its status as media infrastructure, its complicity with logistics, as well as its contingent histories and virtual futures. The approach to computing the city taken here questions the accustomed self-description of a mediated society as a completely new infrastructure of living and dwelling. This is not yet another themed issue on the 'smart city' -as we will see below; a consideration of computing the city far exceeds the ways in which the smart city as discourse and project seeks to capture our imaginaries of future technological cities.The 'smart city' is promoted as the primary site of the materialisation of ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things: the integration of computational systems with architectural design is supposed to turn inefficient urban settings into smart cities that manifest as the penultimate value-extraction machines (Goodspeed, 2015). In their essay for this issue that focuses on the smart city projects of Songdo in South Korea and Masdar in Abu Dhabi, Orit Halpern and Gökçe Günel demonstrate how the infrastructural imagination of the smart city is tied to neoliberal capital. Marked by speculation, demo-ing and prototyping, 1 the smart city appears as a prime example of how neoliberal capital proposes to deal with crisis and catastrophe. In this context, human life becomes an experiment for technological futures. Computational 'smartness', and the speculation based on simulation and prediction it affords, are presented as ways of dealing with uncertainty which here is reduced to risk, much like in financial markets dealing in futures. The 'absolute hopefulness' that the smart city exudes is built on the creativity and entrepreneurship it demands of its inhabitants, while the machines of logistics and fina...

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Visualizing the Anthropocene

Cited by 120 publications

References 12 publications

Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment

Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment

Ecocritique

Issue 29 Introduction: Computing the City

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