About the talks
How do we imagine a humane Digital Earth to come? Follow the discussion and explore the visions of leading voices in art, tech, and philosophy from around the world.
Between November 2020 and July 2021 we’ve hosted a series of talks together with Lukáš Likavčan, Chakanetsa Mavunga, Maya Indira Ganesh, Holly Jean Buck and Svitlana Matviyenko. All talks were moderated by Nora N. Khan and featured the 2020-2021 fellows.
Recap: Digital Earth Talks 2021
Final Reflection on the Digital Earth Talks Series by Nora N. Khan
Moderator Nora N. Khan reflects on the Digital Earth Talks series, “five epic conversations which are knotty, which challenged each thinker, which drew on the affordances, for lack of a better term, of such a fluid digital space, but also allowed for ruptures and fissures that would not have been possible in person.”
Recap Digital Earth Talks #1 Lukáš Likavčan
Our societies can change through consideration, and balance, of multiple cosmologies. Written by Nora N. Khan and Digital Earth. “In the first Digital Earth talk, the philosopher Lukáš Likavčan proposes that the imagining of a humane Digital Earth first demands a recognition of the cosmologies that drive our world in the present, in order to imagine a new cosmology for the future.”
Recap Digital Earth Talks #2 Chakanetsa Mavhunga
We must dare to be critical thinker-doers who know in order to solve, and know through solving. Written by Nora N. Khan and Digital Earth. Chakanetsa met the fellows with a vital challenge: to un-think and challenge Western paradigms of thinking, knowing and learning, which have shaped the language of possibility, particularly across the African continent, in favour of a more active critical thinking and doing.
Recap Digital Earth Talks #3 Maya Indira Ganesh
Break with modes of knowledge-production that do not serve you, and set your own terms for engaging with new technologies. Written by Nora N. Khan and Digital Earth. In her research on the language and metaphors of AI, Maya Indira Ganesh frequently splits open the category of human. She asks how we can understand the human in relation to the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and further, how can we understand the human evolving in direct relation to the geopolitical, the social, and cultural aspects of technology.
Recap Digital Earth Talks #4 Holly Jean Buck
Written by Nora N. Khan and Digital Earth. In 2021, Nasdaq, the second biggest stock market exchange in the world, bought a majority stake in a carbon removal marketplace. This was a public bet that carbon removal technology might play a significant role in the future. Holly Jean Buck opts out of discussing how such techniques and technologies might work. Instead, she questions who measures net-zero and who governs the measurements of carbon emissions and removals.
Recap Digital Earth Talks #5 Svitlana Matviyenko
Written by Nora N. Khan and Digital Earth. Opening with the alluring statement, “You may not be interested in cyberwar, but cyberwar is interested in you,” Svitlana Matviyenko introduced the Digital Earth Fellows to the term ‘Communicative Militarism.’
