Beskrivning

What oceanographers take waves to be has been imprinted by the techniques, technologies, and media — maritime, photographic, filmic, information theoretic — through which waves have come to be known. But waves are not only an infrastructure for maritime networks, but as avatars of anthropogenic climate change.

Professor Helmreich has done ethnograpic research on the Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP), a seagoing vessel managed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Medverkande

Stefan Helmreich, professor of cultural anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life and A book of Waves. Specializes in anthropology of scientists – specifically oceanographers.

Host: Caroline Elgh, art curator och PhD student Gender Studies Linköping University and artistic director at The Posthumanities Hub.