Seminar: Axiomatic Earth
The Axiomatic Earth describes a condition in which calculation becomes a site of political struggle. Allowing different modes of seeing or measuring, technologies of calculation do not simply present an improved perspective of the world. Instead they present a different world, and thus allow the formulation of different problems.
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Prologue
“The earth itself and everything within it is increasingly captured by systems of abstraction.” Godofredo Pereira on how systems of classification are being used within the seminar to shed a light on the processes of counting and measuring in the Anthropocene.
- contributionMatteo Pasquinelli
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly can only be detected against the ground of pattern regularity. Media theorist Matteo Pasquinelli explores the return of the abnormal into politics as a mathematical object.
Data, Big data, Economy
- contributionSusana Caló
The Grid
Wherein lies the connection between formalization processes and sociopolitical change? An introduction into Felix Guattari’s protocol of organization.
Technoscience
- contributionSvenja Schüffler
Installing Seismic Risk of Istanbul
An experiment on the possibility of falling slabs addresses the different levels of uncertainty involved in risk calculation.
Resilience, Infrastructure
- contributionGodofredo Pereira
Anomalous Alliances
Godofredo Pereira on the Yasuní-ITT initiative and the de-colonial possibilities of techno-scientific practices
Technoscience, Human-environment relations, Biodiversity, Knowledge infrastructure, Colonialism
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Axiomatic Earth
Digitization seizes every realm of what today constitutes the contested idea of the “human”. A concise synopsis of the Axiomatic Earth seminar.
Film
- contributionEva Castringius
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The mining compound at Deqingcun acts as a surrogate for the Chinese-Tibetan conflict. This exploited landscape provides the pattern for a hand-knotted rug by artist Eva Castringius.
Field Work, Mining, Infrastructure, Aesthetics
- contribution
Axiomatic Earth: Cases
Measuring and calculating the twenty-first century. A collection of incidents.
Case Study, Naturecultures, Human-environment relations
