Benjamin H. Bratton

Benjamin H. Bratton (US) is a theorist whose work spans philosophy, art and design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics and Faculty Coordinator of the MFA programme at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2014, Bratton has worked at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He researches the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media and infrastructure, architectural and urban design problems and the politics of synthetic ecologies and biologies. He is currently working on the political geography of cloud computing, highly granular universal addressing systems, and alternate models of ecological governance. His forthcoming book is titled, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.

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Session 8: Speculative Geophilosophy

Saturday 28 February

14:00 - 15:30

Paradiso, Main Hall

The geophilosophy of Ben Woodard directs the attention of philosophy to our globe, because it has ‘contoured every aspect of our material, cultural, and noetic existence’. But what is the Earth? Earth does not care for human thoughts and human civilisation. How can we truly imagine the force of the Earth, the nonhuman forces, things that defy human comprehension?