Event overview
Uncovering the hidden intersections of land, digital technologies, resource extraction and climate policy, with Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brody.
Drawing on their forthcoming book From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth University) and Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin) explore how Ireland’s peatlands – once sites of extraction and resistance – are now entangled with the infrastructural and political demands of digital capitalism. They trace how data centres, often framed as part of a green, smart transition, are materially rooted in land-use regimes shaped by colonial legacies and multinational investment. Framing data centres not as immaterial ‘clouds’ but as grounded, resource-intensive systems, they highlight the continuities between past and present forms of extraction, and the movements that challenge them.
The talk will be followed by a discussion led by Louise Rondel (Goldsmiths) and Liam Healy (University of Sheffield).
Lures for Feeling seminar series
This event is part of the Lures for Feeling seminar series that explores the climate crisis as an aesthetic event marked by an irretrievable loss of feeling and being, challenging design and knowledge practices to address cosmopolitical futures. The series invites scholars and practitioners to engage with more-than-human aesthetics, fostering sensitivity to climatic possibilities and liveable futures where nonhuman others play an active role. By questioning assumptions and unsettling design practices, the series seeks to imagine transformative, yet modest, roles for design in hopeful, ethico-political world-making.
No registration is needed for this event.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2025 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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