Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

 

Adriana Petryna, professor and director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, presented “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change.”

Climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time based on established patterns. Rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous realities of emergency response, particularly to wildfires. Petryna explored the climate future in terms of horizoning, a mode of thinking that considers natural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people can still act.

Petryna was the second speaker in the Spring 2022 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).

Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

Publish Date

April 6, 2022

Presenter(s)

Adriana Petryna

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/44hTclZ7DcM

Video Length

1:25:28

 

Adriana Petryna, professor and director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, presented “Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change.”

Climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time based on established patterns. Rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous realities of emergency response, particularly to wildfires. Petryna explored the climate future in terms of horizoning, a mode of thinking that considers natural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people can still act.

Petryna was the second speaker in the Spring 2022 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).