{"73098":{"#nid":"73098","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Fixing the Sky","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe speaker, James Fleming, author of \u003Cem\u003EFixing the Sky\u003C\/em\u003E (Columbia University Press, 2010), has been chosen as the winner of this year\u0027s Sally Hacker Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. The Sally Hacker Prize is awarded to recognize the best book in the history of technology directed to a broad audience of readers, including students and the interested public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith geoengineers proposing to \u201cfix\u201d the climate system to reduce global warming, the number of wild proposals in this field has been proliferating. Shade the planet by launching a solar shield into orbit. Shoot sulfates into the upper atmosphere, turning the blue sky milky white. Fertilize the oceans, turning the blue seas soupy green. Some proposals are idealistic, perhaps hopelessly so, while others are quite humorous; many that use military equipment are quite ominous, but are any really feasible?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this presentation, I examine the history of geoengineering since the late nineteenth century and its role in public policy. \u0026nbsp;In addition to fixes proposed and actually attempted, I pay special attention to visual semiotics of imaginaries\u2014William Gibson\u2019s phantasmagoric \u0022fragments of the mass dream\u0022\u2014as mediated today through the not-so-rosy lenses of climate angst and apprehension.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by Public Policy, Economics and HTS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFixing the Sky: Rube Goldberg meets Dr. Strangelove by Guest Speaker James Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Colby College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by History, Technology, and Society Department, School of Public Policy, and the School of Economics\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fixing the Sky: Rube Goldberg meets Dr. Strangelove by Guest Speaker James Fleming"}],"uid":"27228","created_gmt":"2011-11-29 10:33:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:45","author":"LaDonna Bowen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-26T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-26T18:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-26T18:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-26 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-26 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-26 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10889","name":"HTS Graduate Forum Speaker Series"},{"id":"4903","name":"HTS Monday Seminar Speaker Series"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; LaDonna Bowen\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; School of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 404-894-3198\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}