Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability: on cryoprotectants and chemical time

H Landecker - BioSocieties, 2024 - Springer
What can't freezing hold still? This article surveys the history of substances used to protect
cells and organisms from freezing damage, known as cryoprotectants. Dimethyl sulfoxide …

Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology

C Bonelli, M Gamba - Science, Technology, & Human …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Amid the push for decarbonization and the rise of lithium-ion batteries, global demand for
lithium urges an examination of its materiality. Drawing on Barry's chemical geography …

Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology

H Landecker - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of
microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative stress and failures of DNA …

Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones

D McCormack - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Critical engagement with spaces of exposure is an important research agenda in the
contemporary social sciences and humanities. Developing and extending this agenda, this …

Cultivating a politics of sight for vacant land use in cities

A Kenner, E Nobles, S Stalcup - Anthropological Quarterly, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
Perceptions of vacant urban land and resulting policies are based in nature/culture dualisms
that condemn abandoned properties as wasteful at best and at worst outright dangerous for …

The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations

C Howe, D Boyer - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie …, 2024 - berghahnjournals.com
Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the first of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear
because of anthropogenic climate change, this article discusses the complex relationships …

Elementare Ekstasen: Sondierungen der Technosphäre

L Perraudin - 2024 - library.oapen.org
Elementare Ekstasen überschwemmen, erodieren und evaporieren die wohlsortierten
Grenzziehungen zwischen Technik, Umwelt und Mensch. Als Neuverortung im …

Elementare Ekstasen

L Perraudin - 2024 - edoc.hu-berlin.de
Elementare Ekstasen überschwemmen, erodieren und evaporieren die wohlsortierten
Grenzziehungen zwischen Technik, Umwelt und Mensch. Als Neuverortung im …