Mon | January 13, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 CEST
Marc Boeckler is Professor of Economic Geography and Global Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he leads the Research Group »Technologies of Global Circulation«. Before joining the Department of Human Geography, Marc worked as Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, was Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Mainz and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Konstanz. Marc is an interdisciplinary geographer with a training in cultural studies and STS. In addition to research interests in Africa and the Middle East, his work focuses on digital geographies, social studies of marketization, the performativity of economics, and the materials, infrastructures and spaces of a (de-)globalizing economy.
Fixing Futures
The future is in crisis. Tomorrow can no longer be taken for granted. How are the multiple crises of our time changing society’s relationship to the future? This is the basic question of a recently launched DFG Research Training Group (RTG) on “Fixing Futures”. With a focus on science and technology studies, the RTG “investigates technologies of anticipation in contemporary societies” (as the subtitle reads). The presentation will introduce the RTG’s research programme along five anticipatory practices – fixing, repairing, stabilising, predicting and experimenting. Drawing on diverse empirical material from a range of field sites, I hope to illustrate how the future is increasingly folded into the present, and how a new politics of temporality authorises practices in the here and now in the name of the future.
Venue:
University of Cologne
Neues Seminargebäude, Ground Floor
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne
