Keynote address: Richard Grusin, Professor Emeritus, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
In an age of omnipresent climate crisis and endless inflation of speculative technology—both culturally and financially—the need for a better co-understanding of networked computing and the environment could hardly be more pronounced. The internet has reshaped the ways in which we think about the environment, affording new opportunities for communicating both the ecological sublime and climate catastrophe seemingly in real time. At the same time, the internet is reshaping the material world through Big Tech firms’ ever growing resource and infrastructure requirements to continue their projected infinite growth. "Network Ecologies Reimagined" will bring to campus a wide range of scholars working across, between, at the fringes of, or adjacent to humanities disciplines as they chart the planetary limits of computation and interrogate the complex environmental entanglements of everyday life in an age of constant digital connection. Co-sponsored by DHX and the Environmental Humanities Research Center.
Schedule and registration forthcoming.