Associate Professor Dr. Ingmar Lippert

Sociologist of science, technology and the environment, visiting senior research fellow at Humanities of Nature and collaboration within its STS group and the Bureau for troubles.

As Associate Professor at the Technologies in Practice Research Group at the IT University of Copenhagen, and at the Chair of Technoscience Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology, and as a fellow at the Museum für Naturkunde I conduct research on

• Data natures, with Prof. Tahani Nadim, focusing on data infrastructures within natural history collections and environmental monitoring and the human and nonhuman agents involved;
• autochthonous agents and (informational) politics of coal – coal as an effect of the carbonisation of plant materials.

The key concern in my research asks how the digital and society meet and are woven into each other. I explore the situated politics at the heart of the "digital society" and of projects of "digitalising nature". This pushes me to analyse the structures and nitty-gritty contingencies of power, knowledge, technology and science.

Publications

Edited work

• Ethnographic data generation in STS collaboration, Science & Technology Studies (forthcoming)
• Numbering, Numbers and After Numbers, Science & Technology Studies (2018)
• Environmental Management as Situated Practice, Geoforum (2015)
• Limits to Managing the Environment, Springer (2011)

Selected articles/chapters

• "Umwelt – 'Version 2b': Das Programmieren ökologischer Fehlentscheidungen und Grundlagen für eine neue Umweltpolitik" Leviathan (2016)
• "Environment as Datascape: Enacting Emission Realities in Corporate Carbon Accounting" Geoforum (2015)
• "Environmental Management as Situated Practice" Geoforum special issue, edited with Franz Krause and Niklas Hartmann (2015)
• "Latour’s Gaia – Not down to Earth?: Social Studies of Environmental Management for Grounded Understandings of the Politics of Human-Nature Relationships", in: Yearbook 2012 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (2014)
• "Extended Carbon Cognition as a Machine" Computational Culture (2011)