(ES) La segunda sesión del Coloquio Teorías Sociales y Culturales (TSC) organizado por el profesor Felipe Torres del Instituto de Sociología UC, se realizará el próximo 24 de julio a las 10:00 hrs de forma online. La sesión será en inglés y estará a cargo de Cassiopea Staudacher.
En la sesión la investigadora asociada del Centro de Humanidades para Estudios Avanzados "Futuros de la Sustentabilidad" de la Universidad de Hamburg presentará Rooms for the Future: Heterochronotopias of the Anthropocene.
(EN) The second session of the Colloquium on Social and Cultural Theories (TSC), organized by Professor Felipe Torres from the Institute of Sociology at UC, will take place online on July 24 at 10:00 AM. The session will be held in English and will be led by Cassiopea Staudacher.
In this session, the associate researcher from the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" at the University of Hamburg will present Rooms for the Future: Heterochronotopias of the Anthropocene.
This article examines the material–temporal dis/ruptures of modernistic temporal orders through two emblematic objects of the Anthropocene: seeds and radioactive wastes. While sociologists have long recognised the role of artefacts in shaping temporal experiences, particularly in light of recent neo-materialist and vitalist perspectives, the explicit connection to the ecological crisis remains underexplored. I conceptualise these objects as socio-ecological problem-materialities, highlighting how they intervene in the classical modernistic rupturing of time and its dichotomies. I demonstrate how these spaces reconcile temporal disruptions by focusing on two emblematic spaces: the Seed Vault in Svalbard and the repository for high-level radioactive waste in Onkalo. I propose framing these spaces as heterochronotopias of the Anthropocene. In the face of planetary destruction and the looming threat of an unsustainable future, these alternative rooms represent distinct temporal frameworks through deep time strategies to preserve supraterrestrial life while simultaneously reinstating modernist temporal paradigms.