The planetary, datafication and how do we start regenerating the web of life?

Description

Dipesh Chakrabarty has pointed to the planet as an emergent humanist and existential category. At the same time, the planet is a political orphan and absent from global governance. And while Earth system sciences are planetary systems pointing to how the planet sustains our lives, it at the same time is dependent on enormous flows of data from measuring tools building on Western epistemologies, and as pointed out by several scholars, an extractive resource management reproducing colonial practices (Crawford, Yusoff). In the presentation I firstly want to discuss the planetary and question the role of datafication by bringing in the many paradoxes related to the planetary and datafication. Secondly, I want to start imagining other planetary futures speculating about how we can start regenerating the web of life from our daily practices. How, for instance, can our ways of producing knowledge at university matter in the regeneration of the web of life? By bringing in the notion of the pluriverse (Escobar, Marisol de la Cadena, Mignolo & Walsh), and by giving earthly examples of reparative and regenerative practices, we will start imagining a planetary future otherwise.

Period	21 Mar 2024
Held at	Center for Climate IT