STS Speaker. ToxiCity: Practices of Living Anthropogenic Seas
Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania
How might we think about and address the kinds of life that emerge in the wastescapes of cities? In this talk I attend to the social and...
STS Speaker. Catastrophic Thinking in Science and Culture: Geo-Eschatology and the Anthropocene
David Sepkoski, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
The specter of extinction looms large in the late-modern Western psyche. As a cultural "imaginary," extinction is perhaps the...
STS Speaker. All in the Family: U.S. Demography and the Origins of Neoliberalism
Savina Balasubramanian, Loyola University Chicago
Neoliberalism is generally understood as an intellectual and political project to retool regulation to protect capital. Consequently,...
