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Journalist-in-Residence Julia Voss hat Podcast-Serie „The Situation“ begonnen.
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Listen to PodcastA Silent Revolution: Infrastructuring Singapore as a Logistics City (1850s–1930s)
Port facilities, stockyards, loading docks, railroad tracks, power grids—functional infrastructures form basic units of both modern cities and logisti
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Artifice Embodied: Perfecting Renaissance Nature and the Invention of Race
In the sixteenth century, Europeans set out to control nature by “taking charge of race,” in the words of heretic philosopher Tommaso Campanella. The
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Large-Scale Environmental Engineering During the Cold War
In 2006, the atmospheric scientist and Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen broke what was until then a taboo within his community. As the leading figure i
Oceans and Expeditions Between the Wars
This book examines the way that new technologies, international ideals, and scientific practices changed the way that oceans were studied and imagined
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Animals disturb airports in multiple ways while also being an integral part of their modus operandi. Airports create their own ecosystems that are emb
A History of Artificial Beings
This project will retell the global history of technology from ancient times to the present through our changing encounters with objects. It begins in
Experiment, Gestural Knowledge, and Scientific Change in the Age of Precision
Scientific change is not necessarily a revolutionary moment; more often it emerges incrementally. Experimentation, therefore, plays a central role bec
Wefts of Innovation in Premodern China (13th–17th Century)
“Cloths are for all (衣被群生)” declared the Chinese statesman Ouyang Xiu歐陽修(1007–1071) once in a memorandum to the throne. Although Ouyang did not s