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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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True Heat
Artist filmmaker Lucy Beech joins the working group “Out of Place, Out of Time” as an artist fellow (2020–22). During this time MPIWG is supporting he
Understanding the Anthropocene: The Level of the Sea
The level of the sea is nowadays a trope of environmental discourse, used widely to symbolise current and future changes to the environment. These mod
Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
The founder of the Ming dynasty in China, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), and his successors used translations and inter-cultural correspondences (or equival
Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
Interpretation of the Cambridge Cockpit Experiments
During the 1940s, members of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge worked closely with the Royal Air Force on problems connected
A Permanent Revolution. Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848–1942
Logistics, both materially and metaphorically, is tied to histories of urbanization. As a managerial rationality and a material practice for reorganiz
The Other Chemists’ War: The Uses, Dual Uses, and Abuses of Chemical Weapons in the Second World War
Alison’s dissertation highlights the long Second World War (1931–1945) as a transformative moment in the history of chemical weapons. Although the con
Vegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged chemistry, biology, and d
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