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Open lecture at CIID featuring Mark Dorrian

Wed
19
Mar
17:00
19 March
2014

OPEN Lecture: Professor Mark Dorrian
Weather Control: Dubai's Sunny Mountain Ski-Dome as an Allegory of the Future

Weather control is a familiar object of pre-modern ritual and magical practices, but it also appears in one of the earliest works of science fiction, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Here, however, rather than being directed toward renewal, it has become turned toward habitat destruction.

This talk will read this long history in relation to contemporary technologies of - and aspirations for - weather control. It will reflect on the ever-increasing militarization of weather foreshadowed in Swift's tale, announced in the contemporary military project to "own the weather", and the concomitant privatization and commodification of what had hitherto seemed the very emblem of freedom, the air itself. Biography: http://ciid.dk/education/people/guests/mark-dorrian/

When: 5-6pm - Weds, March 19th, 2014
Where: CIID, Toldbodgade 37b, 1253, Copenhagen K, DENMARK

There are limited seats for this lecture so please sign-up by emailing: info@ciid.dk (with 'Dorrian' in the subject line)

More information: http://ciid.dk/2014/03/19/open-lecture-professor-mark-dorrian/

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