Southern Anthropocenes

This may well have been the fastest book project I have ever had the chance to be part of—despite actually being involved in it.

Date: May 11, 2026, 1300-1500

Venue: “Collaboration Room 4” in Building 18 on The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus (also online)

Southern Anthropocenes @ University of Tokyo

STS Across Borders (4S 2018, Sydney)

STS Across Borders (4S 2018, Sydney)

This year’s second overseas conference was held in Sydney at a new and fancy conference centre in Darling Harbour. With some of my Japanese colleagues, we have created a digital essay on the “Anthropologies of Science and Technology in Japan,” which was part of the new exhibition called STS Across Borders. The best for the genre is probably “experimental.” Not only we, even the organizers did not know how it was going to be. It was fun though and we hope to continue tinkering with this text-like-archive-of-genealogies. 

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