Outputs (14)

Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience (2022)
Journal Article
Lehman, J. S., & Johnson, E. (2022). Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience. Progress in Environmental Geography, 1(1-4), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221124613

How has environmental geography grappled with the inheritances of Western technoscience? On one hand, as a discipline, we are now well aware of science's entanglements with imperial projects and racist logics, not to mention the omissions and silence... Read More about Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
Journal Article
Lehman, J., Steinberg, P., & Johnson, E. (2021). Turbulent waters in three parts. Theory and Event, 24(1), 192-219

While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historica... Read More about Turbulent waters in three parts.

Biomimetic Geopolitics: The Earth, Inside Out (2020)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. (2020). Biomimetic Geopolitics: The Earth, Inside Out. Techniques & culture, 73, Article 13832

This paper analyzes how biomimetic innovations reveal a recursive knot between biological knowledge production, technological innovation, and wider material environments and histories. It focuses on the so-called RoboLobster project and the role of b... Read More about Biomimetic Geopolitics: The Earth, Inside Out.

Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea (2020)
Book
Braverman, I., & Johnson, E. R. (Eds.). (2020). Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea. Duke University Press

Blue Legalities is inspired by the emerging “blue turn” in social sciences and the humanities about oceans and their inhabitants. But as important and comprehensive as this “blue turn” has been, it has yet to substantively and creatively take up ques... Read More about Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea.

Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws in the Anthropocene (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnson, E. R., & Braverman, I. (2020). Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws in the Anthropocene. In Blue legalities: the life and law of the sea. Duke University Press

The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace (2019)
Book Chapter
Johnson, E. R. (2020). The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace. In I. Braverman, & E. R. Johnson (Eds.), Blue legalities : the life and law of the sea. Duke University Press

Just as aerial drones precipitated a shift in the logics and spaces of war, the rise of sea-going autonomous vehicles are changing military engagement in the ocean. In this chapter, Johnson considers how the rise of machinic warfare is reconstituting... Read More about The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace.

Geontographies: On Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism (2019)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R., Kindervater, G., Todd, Z., Yusoff, K., Woodward, K., & Povinelli, E. A. (2019). Geontographies: On Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(8), 1319-1342. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419875148

This forum brings together perspectives from geography, philosophy, and political science to reflect on Elizabeth Povinelli’s, 2016 book, Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism. Contributions come from both junior and senior scholars across a ra... Read More about Geontographies: On Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism.

At the Limits of Species Being: Sensing the Anthropocene (2017)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R. (2017). At the Limits of Species Being: Sensing the Anthropocene. South Atlantic Quarterly, 116(2), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3829401

Autonomous Marxism has generated a lexicon for responding to transformations in human labor, particularly around the role of technological development. Autonomists have mapped how the conditions of post-Fordism have put elements of the mind, sociabil... Read More about At the Limits of Species Being: Sensing the Anthropocene.

Reconsidering Mimesis: Freedom and Acquiescence in the Anthropocene (2016)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R. (2016). Reconsidering Mimesis: Freedom and Acquiescence in the Anthropocene. South Atlantic Quarterly, 115(2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3488409

In 1993 Michael Taussig's Mimesis and Alterity revitalized the power of the mimetic faculty to craft a vision of nature that was neither the alienated subject of modern science nor the passively malleable medium of late twentieth-century social const... Read More about Reconsidering Mimesis: Freedom and Acquiescence in the Anthropocene.

Of Lobsters, Laboratories, and War: Animal Studies and the Temporality of More-Than-Human Encounters (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R. (2015). Of Lobsters, Laboratories, and War: Animal Studies and the Temporality of More-Than-Human Encounters. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.1068/d23512

For over two decades, geographers concerned with undoing what Judith Butler has referred to as ‘the conceit of anthropocentrism’ have brought animals in from the margins of thought. Geography's contributions to animal studies have been diverse, but a... Read More about Of Lobsters, Laboratories, and War: Animal Studies and the Temporality of More-Than-Human Encounters.

Biomimetic Futures: Life, Death, and the Enclosure of a More-Than-Human Intellect (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R., & Goldstein, J. (2015). Biomimetic Futures: Life, Death, and the Enclosure of a More-Than-Human Intellect. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(2), 387-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.985625

The growing field of biomimicry promises to supplant modern industry's energy-intensive models of engineering with a mode of production more sensitively attuned to nonhuman life and matter. This article considers the revolutionary potentials created... Read More about Biomimetic Futures: Life, Death, and the Enclosure of a More-Than-Human Intellect.

Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures (2014)
Journal Article
Goldstein, J., & Johnson, E. (2015). Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414551032

Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and comi... Read More about Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures.

Time and the University (2011)
Journal Article
Meyerhoff, E., Johnson, E., & Braun, B. (2011). Time and the University. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 10(3), 483-507

Over the past twenty years, university administrators in North America, Europe and elsewhere have used the apparent ‘crisis’ in higher education as an opportunity to roll out neoliberal policies. For many working in the academy, the effect has been f... Read More about Time and the University.

Reinventing biological life, reinventing 'the human' (2010)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. R. (2010). Reinventing biological life, reinventing 'the human'. Ephemera, 10(2), 177-193

The techno-scientific framework known as biomimicry ‘reverse-engineers’ animal life to develop technologies and tactics that solve social and environmental problems. Its advocates have promised that it will spark a technological, environmental, and e... Read More about Reinventing biological life, reinventing 'the human'.