Technosphäre

100 Years of Now Library
Editors: Katrin Klingan and Christoph Rosol
Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2019
250 pages, German
ISBN 978-3-95757-415-2
Price: 18 €

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What happens when technologies and techniques become planetary players? Over the course of the twentieth century, a new component of the global system established itself: the technosphere, comparable in its effects and function with the biosphere or the hydrosphere. The concurrence of natural environments with technical infrastructures and the almost uncontrollable evolutionary dynamics of growing “technological biodiversity” raise new questions about the initiation and operation of technical omniscience: How do the edges of what life is shift? What autonomies does technology possess? What latitudes are opened or closed with the new world order?

100 Years of Now Library

How can the past be made fertile not as a relic, but as a lived experience for the present and future? From now until 2019, a series of publications will address this fundamental question of the 100 Years of Now project (2015–18) in 12 paradigmatic in-depth volumes.
2015–2019

Technosphere

The dilemma of global technology and its identity was the main theme of Technosphere. From 2015 to 2019 the explorative research project hosted four public events to spur conversations among scientists, artists, and the general public to explore the origins and future itineraries of the technosphere.

Technosphäre

100 Years of Now Library

Technosphere