Bronislaw Szerszynski

Mining Gods and Spirits

Bronislaw Szerszynski

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Mining Gods and Spirits

Bronislaw Szerszynski

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What can a planet do?

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski

In this article we build on recent ‘geo-’ themed work in human geography to move beyond the Earth and consider what our own planet shares with other astronomical bodies. Mobilising ideas from the planetary sciences, we sketch a speculative philosophy of planetary …

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Interdisciplinarity and the earth sciences: knowledge at the threshold

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski

While the origins of the Anthropocene idea are profoundly interdisciplinary, the concept has also generated conflicts between disciplines. This chapter explores both the possibilities and the perplexities of Anthropocene interdisciplinarity along with the promise of contestation or agonism. We set out by …

Planetary Stories Before and After Geoengineering

Bronislaw Szerszynski

The cultural politics of climate change has always relied on images, most notably the “hockey stick” graphs of changing global temperature over the last thousand years (Schneider and Nocke 2014). Geoengineering—the proposed, deliberate, large-scale technological intervention into climate processes to counteract global …

Heterogeneous capital stocks and economic inertia in the US economy

Daniel L. Chester, Cormac Lynch, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Jean-François Mercure et autres

The timescales of capital investments, and therefore the turnover dynamics of capital stock, have limited representation in macroeconomic modelling. This hinders analysis of the economic inertia produced by these timescales, which is particularly important in the context of a rapid net zero …

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Planetary Thought and the Much-More-than-Human

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski

Over the last fifty to sixty years, a series of developments in the Earth sciences laid the groundwork for the theory of abrupt, planet-wide climate change and the more general idea of an Earth system capable of shifting between different operating states. …

Planetary Technics, Earthly Spirits

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski

Drawing on the work of Andrew Feenberg, Gilbert Simondon, Yuk Hui, Mary Helms and others, we develop a critical account of human &s;technics&s;—understood broadly as the ‘bringing forth&s; of the properties and potentialities of physical reality—as an enfolding of planetary and cosmic …

Culture and the much-more-than-human: the case of colloids

Bronislaw Szerszynski

Abstract In this paper I try to identify a minimal definition of culture that might be applicable in the much-more-than-human realm that extends beyond organic matter and human involvement. I speculate that culture conceived in this broad way might be a metapattern …

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Thinking through the Earth: Surviving and thriving at a planetary threshold

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski

In this short response, we engage with four generous and stimulating commentaries on our Planetary Social Thought (2021). We endorse Cecilia Åsberg's suggestion that the boundary between the environmental humanities and social sciences is dissolving – but also call for more inventive …

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Elemental Computation

Bronislaw Szerszynski, Nigel Clark

Elemental Computation - 1 - From Non-human Media to More-than-Digital Information Systems

Life in the hole: practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence

Nils O. Markusson, Duncan P. McLaren, Bronislaw Szerszynski, David Tyfield et autres

Abstract Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, and the climate crisis is intensifying, it is increasingly likely that removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be necessary …

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