Records

What connects melting glaciers and the knowledge from ice cores to the mapping of the ocean floor and the extraction of resources in the deep-sea? Records of Disaster proposes an analytical perspective on infrastructures as multi-layered witnesses to climate change.

Records of Disaster

Media Infrastructures and Climate Change

Records of Disasters: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change explores how environmental disasters manifest and inscribe themselves in infrastructures. By turning to infrastructures, their logic and functioning, collapse and malfunction, the volume reveals their potential as fragile material witnesses to and of disasters. As climate change is unequally distributed across continuous dynamics and events, time scales and spatial registers, infrastructures can be understood as proxies or seismographs mediating different spatio-temporal layers that make these dynamics tangible. Disaster is made operational by negotiating what is defined as such, and under which geopolitical conditions. What connects melting glaciers and the knowledge from ice cores to the mapping of the ocean floor and the extraction of resources in the deep-sea? How can infrastructures be thought in time and “critical proximity”, and how do they bear witness to colonial pasts and presents? The volume proposes an analytical perspective on infrastructures as multi-layered witnesses to climate change, bringing together scientific and artistic approaches, students and scholars from different disciplines.

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2022
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English
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164
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978-3-95796-208-9 (Print)
978-3-95796-209-6 (PDF)
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10.14619/2089
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Jakob Claus is a research associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg where he is currently working on a PhD on the conditions of colonial and ecological knowledge production in early twentieth century ethnology. He studied cultural and media studies in Berlin, London and Lüneburg.

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Petra Löffler is Professor of„Theory and History of Contemporary Media“ at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Her particular research interests include media archeology, media ecologies, archival practices, and material culture.

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