CHAMA Anthropology Collective promotes Seminar: "Forest of Knowledge and Mystery: An ethnography of computational modeling of vegetation in the AmazonFACE Program"

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LISA. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

What kind of Amazon emerges from the contemporary effort of computational modeling to try to predict the effects that climate change will have on the forest? In his research that will be presented this Friday, May 9, Felipe Mammoli, PhD in Science and Technology Policy - DPCT/Unicamp, starts from the Anthropology of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) to discuss how computational and ecological issues mix in the practices of knowledge production about the future of the Amazon rainforest. Based on an ethnography at the Computational Modeling Laboratory of the international research program on the Amazon, AmazônFACE, Mammoli proposes that there is a new Amazon rainforest taking shape, one that is not made up of living and non-living beings and is not located in South America, but rather a disaggregated forest, composed of digital data and distributed globally in several global environmental data systems. The event will take place at the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA).