Mining Conversations
The Futurepasts of ... Shale Oil and Gas
Mining Conversations invites you to join its fifth online session The Futurepasts of … Shale Oil and Gas. The monthly online series critically reflects and discusses extraction and energy landscapes, across geographies and temporalities—up to this moment in which resource regimes more than ever shape economic, societal and environmental realities planetarily and locally in very unequal ways.
Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of … invites you to their fifth session – this time on Shale Oil and Gas. Mining Conversations are an open monthly online space for exchanges and collaborations across practices, temporalities, and across extraction and energy landscapes.
The next session will take place on September 22, 8pm (CEST), please register via the link here.
The session will host the following speakers:
– Benjamin Steininger (moderation and introduction), cultural and media theorist, historian of science and technology, and curator, MPI of Geoanthropology
– Silas Grant, interdisciplinary scholar and activist, University of New Mexico
– Monika Halkort, sociologist and head of the School for Transformation at the University of Applied Arts, Viennay
– J. T. Jack, sociologist, University of Groningen
The series is hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the Anthropocene Commons network.
