Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modeling III: Toward a Radical Earth System Science
Workshop III is co-organised by Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History and NICHE at Ca’Foscari Venice. See below for description and program.
Time: Mon 2025-06-23 - Tue 2025-06-24
Location: The New Institute: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’Foscari University of Venice
Participating: Co-organised by Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History and NICHE at Ca’Foscari Venice
This workshop is the third part of an ongoing project Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling (HEPM) .
Location: The New Institute - Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’Foscari Venice University Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modeling III (HEPM III) Toward a Radical Earth System Science (pdf 1.8 MB)
WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III
See the agenda at Ca'Foscari Venice' page
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
Language
The event will be held in English
Organized by
NICHE, Max Planck Institute, KTH