'Living Cities' Lecture Series: 'Perfectibility and Low Earth Orbit' by Victor Buchli (UCL)
This talk is part of the ‘Living Cities’ Lecture Series and supported by the Research programme “Ville Métabolisme”

Discussant: Martine Drozdz (MFO)

Victor Buchli will examine how anthropology has considered material perfectibility and its intellectual origins within the discipline. This will form the basis with which to consider new forms of material perfectibility as they emerge unfettered by the effects of Earth’s gravity in Low Earth Orbit. The talk will discuss recent ethnographic field work focused on material perfectibility emerging on the International Space Station and its role in producing a ‘multi-planetary’ society.
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Noham Road OX26SE
Speaker: Victor Buchli (UCL)
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Part of: Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-francaise-doxford/perfectibility-and-low-earth-orbit-by-victor-buchli-ucl/2025-03-11/16:00/t-moxdlkp
Audience: Public
Editor: Anne-Sophie Gabillas