Adam Wickberg

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Environmental Humanities Laboratory – Division of History of Science Technology and Environment,, Faculty Member

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Computation, data and AI in Anthropocene history

History and technology, Apr 8, 2024

The mediated planet: Datafication and the environmental SDGs

Environmental Science & Policy

Environing Media

Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2022

Ocean environing media

Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2022

Contingency and Causality

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 9, 2020

This article analyses specific acts of handwriting on paper in relation to digitization. It frame... more This article analyses specific acts of handwriting on paper in relation to digitization. It frames the artifact of the digital image of the handwritten note as a post-digital object, which is defined by the inseparability of analogue and digital and also highlights a relation to the digital in which internal opposition is a part of it. The article discusses the media function of post-digital contingency through two particular cases of handwriting on paper that circulates online. Firstly, it analyses post-digital handwriting in the political sphere using the example of the social media posting and sharing of Donald Trump"s signature after he took presidential office. Secondly, it elaborates post-digital handwriting as an aesthetic phenomenon by discussing the Instagram account of renowned Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist who has posted nearly 4,500 handwritten notes to 320,000 followers over eight years. Finally, it places these discussions into the context of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger to arrive at a better understanding of how the ontological difference of post-digital handwriting is produced.

format_quoteTrump's viral handwritten signature exemplifies post-digital handwriting, merging political practice with digital imagery and enhancing its symbolic significance.format_quote

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”Klimatfrågan handlar om fakta, inte åsikter”

SVT, 2018

Environing empires and colonial media

Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2022

Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain

Critical Inquiry, Jun 1, 2022

Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming

International Journal of Cultural Studies

This article presents the new theoretical concept of environing media, which is developed to offe... more This article presents the new theoretical concept of environing media, which is developed to offer critical insight into how processes of mediation affect how we perceive of, manage and use the environment. Building on the insight that the environment has been in a continuous slow process of change that is now escalating due to human impacts, the article sketches a history of how environmental change and mediation are intertwined. Taking the history of agriculture as a case for the theoretical development, it shows how the current digitization of farming and implementation of AI systems in precision agriculture is the last of a long series in which environmental mediation come to play a crucial role in the forging of human–Earth relations. The article thereby shows the complex interplay between knowing and changing the environment as media technologies produce new epistemologies that in turn produce new interventions.

Därför behövs en mer hållbar artificiell intelligens

QC 20210811</p

Recension: Martin Gregersen & Tobias Skiveren, Den Materielle Drejning. Natur, teknologi og krop i (nyere) dansk litteratur

QC 20190627</p

Environing Media and the Production of Landscapes

Shaping Landscapes: Histories of Nature and Environments, University of Lisbon Centre for History, Nov. 20-22, 2019., 2019

For geometric Lorenz attractors (including the classical Lorenz attractor) we obtain a greatly si... more For geometric Lorenz attractors (including the classical Lorenz attractor) we obtain a greatly simplified proof of the central limit theorem which applies also to the more general class of codimension two singular hyperbolic attractors. We also obtain the functional central limit theorem and moment estimates, as well as iterated versions of these results. A consequence is deterministic homogenisation (convergence to a stochastic differential equation) for fast-slow dynamical systems whenever the fast dynamics is singularly hyperbolic of codimension two.

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New Materialism and the Intimacy of Post-digital Handwriting

Trace: Journal of Writing, Media, Ecology, 2020

This essay analyzes three cases of the changing ontology and epistemic conditions of the practice... more This essay analyzes three cases of the changing ontology and epistemic conditions of the practice of handwriting after digitization. It does so by developing a theory of post-digital handwriting, that is, writing on paper by hand which is then digitized as image and disseminated online. The theory draws on scholarship in media theory on the post-digital as well as insights from new materialism. The cases discussed are penmanship porn, bullet journaling, and the political signature, all phenomena which highlight the intimacy and singularity of handwriting as a physical and sensory practice reminiscent of the modern understanding of love letters.

Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II

Plus ultra : Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II

Early-Career Environmental Historians for a Sustainable Academia

Environment and History, 2020

Exile writing and the medium of the book : Julio Cortázar's Rayuela

La poesía manuscrita de don Luis de Góngora: inscripción, almacenaje y copia de la palabra

Klimatet är fakta, inte åsikter, public service

Estimasi sangat perpengaruh besar terhadap sebuah perencanaan baik itu perencanaan membangun ruma... more Estimasi sangat perpengaruh besar terhadap sebuah perencanaan baik itu perencanaan membangun rumah, gedung, jalan raya, sampai perencanaan pembuatan suatu perangkat lunak (software). Estimasi biaya dan usaha proyek merupakan suatu kegiatan pengaturan sumber daya dalam mencapai tujuan dan sasaran dari proyek, sehingga proyek dapat berjalan sesuai dengan tahapan dan target yang dikehendaki. Estimasi biaya proyek merupakan perkiraan waktu, biaya serta jumlah pegawai yang mengerjakan proyek. Estimasi biaya pada penelitian ini menggunakan metode COCOMO II. Metode COCOMO II dan metode analogi sebagai pembanding. Kedua metode tersebut menyediakan sebuah teknik estimasi biaya yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui berapa lamanya proses pengembangan perangkat lunak serta berapa jumlah pegawai yang dibutuhkan untuk menyelesaikan proyek perangkat lunak tersebut. Untuk menggambarkan karakteristik proyek, metode COCOMO II menggunakan kuesioner Scale Driver dan Effort Multipliers yang di bagikan kepada seluruh tim proyek. Untuk menggambarkan kompleksitas sistem yang akan dikerjakan, menggunakan nilai Unadjusted Function Point di setiap proses penggunaan aplikasi pada PT. Fan Integrasi Teknologi. Sedangkan Metode Analogi menggunakan nilai Unadjusted Function Point untuk diubah kedalam function point yang nanti nya akan dihitung untuk menghasilkan perhitungan waktu, tenaga kerja dan biaya proyek.

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Pellucid Paper: Poetry and Bureaucratic Media in Early Modern Spain

Adam Wickberg's Pellucid Paper is an interdisciplinary study of the materiality of Early Mode... more Adam Wickberg's Pellucid Paper is an interdisciplinary study of the materiality of Early Modern poetry and its relation to political power, memory and subject constitution. The book explores the broad media history in which some of the most canonical Spanish Golden Age poetry was produced. It departs from the intersection of media theory, historiography and materiality of Early Modern culture in a radical rethinking of the nature of the relationship between the imaginary and the real using the concept of cultural techniques. Working with the operative sequences of the material and the symbolic of epistemological configurations of art, literature and power relations, it demonstrates how media and materiality were a crucial part of both the political and the aesthetic already in Early Modernity. It studies these operations in Early Modern Spain in the reign from Philip II to Philip IV. The development of a paper based bureaucracy as a means of sustaining large-scale power relations bridging distances in space and time forms the locus of the book. Pellucid Paper is informed by German Media theory and specifically the more recent developments of Cultural Techniques, which enables a fresh and imaginative take on Early Modern culture. The book offers a radical account of the dynamic relationship between the death oriented aesthetics of vanitas, techniques and media of storage and a form of mediated presence that permeates the inseparable spheres of the political and the aesthetic.QC 20181206</p

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