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23 Jun 2025 10:00

WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III

Aula A, Ca' Bottacin

Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III: Toward a radical Earth System Science
23-24 June 2025
Aula B, Ca' Bottacin

Abstract:
Responding to the growing authority of computational Earth Systems Science (ESS), the HEPM workshops have been an attempt to historicise the methods, media, and knowledge which this science of planetary modelling work with. Historicization is intended to bring the science back down to Earth. Critical analysis of its political economy reveals an increasingly corporation-aligned science. Examining its political ecology reveals environmental and ideological implications. The project has consisted of three international workshops, the third of which is in Venice this year: This workshop explores the possibility of a more radical ESS. It will present the work of politically progressive, radical, and innovative ES scientists, alongside the work of hackers, critical historians, and radical political philosophers of the Earth system.

23 June 2025
Aula B, Ca' Bottacin

10.00 Welcome and introduction
Session 1
Thomas Turnbull & Adam Wickberg
The Philanthropocene: The Rise of Corporate Earth System Science
Drew Pendergrass - The Commodified Earth: Reductionism, Complexity, and Politics in
Earth System Science 

13.30 - 16. 00
Session 2
Geoff Mann - Damaged Functions: The Politics of Precision
Beatrice Cointe - IAM seem to like BECCS »: valuation paradoxes and the political
affordances of negative emissions
Edouard Morena - Terminal logic: Michael Bloomberg and billionaire fantasies of planetary
management control

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24 June 2025 
Aula B, Ca' Bottacin

10.00 - 12.00
Session 3
Leah Aronowsky - Climate Politics and the Limits of Democracy in the Age of Oil
Julia Nordblad - A Heterodox Thinker of the Planetary: Erna Bennett and the Question of Agricultural Diversity, 1967–1980

13.30 - 16.30
Session 4 + Concluding discussion
Andy Stirling - Hacking the Colonial-Modern Cockpit: convivial unravellings of hegemonic
closures 
Jorge Nuñez Vega - Against the Extractive Gaze: Ecologizing Earth Observation with the
Ecuadorian Amazon

 

This workshop is part of NICHE's research cluster Histories of the Earth-System: Understanding the Anthropocene between Planetary Knowledge and Political Epistemologies.
Principal Investigator: Giulia Rispoli

Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

NICHE, Max Planck Institute, KTH

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