'Living Cities' Lecture Series

11 March 16:00
Maison Française d'Oxford

'Perfectibility and Low Earth Orbit' by Victor Buchli (UCL)

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International Space Station - credit: NASA

This talk is part of the 'Living Cities' Lecture Series and supported by the Research programme "Ville Métabolisme"

Discussant: Martine Drozdz (MFO)

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Victor Buchli will examine how anthropology has considered material perfectibility and its intellectual origins within the discipline.  This will form the basis with which to consider new forms of material perfectibility as they emerge unfettered by the effects of Earth’s gravity in Low Earth Orbit.  The talk will discuss recent ethnographic field work focused on material perfectibility emerging on the International Space Station and its role in producing a ‘multi-planetary’ society.