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Hello all,
Thanks so much Oron and Johannes for your compelling comments. What's
intriguing to me is how much the conversation is an elaboration of last
week's developing discussion on urbanization. That is, we seem to be
running into the same frustrations but at a different scale of design
(though I wouldn't want to separate bio and urban design too much, which I
think we were beginning to touch on last week-- especially with Adrian's
comments). In my last post, I mentioned affect precisely because it is a
concept that has so often been marshaled to situate the "human" in
pre-individual capacities for change. But it seems that this is what has
been put into "crisis" (if you'll permit me using this term). Oron, this
makes me think of your work on "deep time." I wonder if you could discuss
some of this work, and perhaps put some of our "what is to be done" tone
(to reference Ross from last week) into perspective.
I also want to use this as a segue into this week's topic, "urban data
politics," with Etienne Turpin and Davide Panagia. To draw our new guests
into the conversation, I wonder how the Anthropocene thesis (Etienne) or
Datapolitiks (Davide/Etienne) might help us negotiate some of these
difficult questions?
Thanks so much!
Here the bios:
Etienne Turpin (ID) is a philosopher researching, curating, and writing
about complex urban systems, community resilience, and colonial-scientific
history. He completed his Ph.D. (Philosophy) in the Department of Theory
and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
of the University of Toronto. He is supported by a Vice-Chancellor's
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the SMART Infrastructure Facility,
Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, and an Associate Research
Fellowship with the Australian Center for Cultural Environmental Research,
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia. With the
support of these appointments, Etienne lives and works in Jakarta, where
his research is coordinated through anexact office and supported by SMART's
_GeoSocial Intelligence for Urban Livability & Resilience_ Research Group.
Prior to his work in Jakarta, Etienne was a Research Fellow at the Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, where he also taught
advanced design research and architecture history and theory, and
coordinated research-based travel studios for the Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning. He has also taught in the architecture and
landscape architecture graduate programs for the Daniels Faculty of
Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, and in the art
history and visual culture undergraduate programs for the Department of
Visual Studies, University of Toronto-Mississauga.
Davide Panagia (US) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA
and co-editor of the quarterly journal Theory & Event (Johns Hopkins
University Press). He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Johns Hopkins and was
previously Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Cultural
Studies Department at Canada’s Trent University. Panagia’s teaching and
research interests include contemporary political theory, the history of
political thought, aesthetics of cultural theory, visual culture, and
citizenship studies. His recent books include _The Poetics of Political
Thinking _(2006),_The Political Life of Sensation_(2009), and _Impressions
of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity_ (2013).
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