TY - GEN A1 - Lippert, Ingmar T1 - Extended Carbon Cognition as a Machine T2 - Computational Culture N2 - Carbon matters. And it is computed. In a culture. Underlying calculations are configured; and they could be configured otherwise. To open a space for conceptual discussion about carbon, this article attempts to reconstruct the extended and distributed practices of knowing carbon emissions with the help of scholarship from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) on heterogeneity and qualculation. To that end, the following pages serve to characterise the machinic quality of a specific technology, one which is often construed as a means for reconciling capitalism with “Nature”: the corporate social construction and accounting of carbon dioxide emissions. This allows us to problematise and contextualise the distributed and heterogeneous intelligence assembled by human and non-humans to make intelligible their corporation’s carbon footprint. Politically, engagement with this kind of intelligence is key to a critical understanding of the limits to managing the environment. By engaging empirically with carbon accounting, this article offers a contribution to the analysis of the hegemonic to dealing with environmental issues (ecological modernisation) and illustrates the generative quality of conceptual work on heterogeneous assemblages. KW - carbon emissions KW - modernization KW - enterprise KW - knowledge KW - nature KW - environmental sociology KW - ecology KW - actor-network theory (ANT) KW - corporate environmental management KW - ethnography Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-60504-9 SN - 2047-2390 VL - 1 IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lippert, Ingmar ED - Schmidt, Michael ED - Onyango, Vincent ED - Palekhov, Dmitry T1 - Limits to Managing the Environment T2 - Implementing Environmental and Resource Management N2 - This part investigates some of the limits and contradictions of management of the environment and its resources, through detailed discussions of key dimensions of applied environmental management. This part introduces studies of 1) resource management (rivers as well as recycling), 2) specific techniques drawn on in corporate and public environmental management (suggestion schemes, and respectively, visualisation techniques), and finally, 3) policy discourses (Clean Development Mechanism). The studies presented here are linked by a common thread which recognises that the historicity of environmental management as a social practice requires us to scrutinise its specificity as a practical, social, cultural as well as political achievement. The ascension of science and modernity gave rise to a qualitative change in cultural conceptualisations of the human-nature relationship: nature became an object to be ‘managed’ by so-called experts. By now, however, environmental management has come under critique in that what it proposes as solutions may simultaneously comprise the causes of environmental problems. First, the means used by environmental management can be identified as instances of modernism, industrialism as well as capitalism. Second, scholars of environmental problems criticise the ‘instruments’ of environmental ‘management’ for reproducing the problems, rather than solving them. To examine how environmental problems ought to be approached a critical stance is now seen as essential. Necessarily then, do issues of ideology, epistemology and theory crop up. KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental sociology KW - Environmental anthropology Y1 - 2011 UR - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm:978-3-540-77568-3/3/1.pdf SN - 978-3-540-77568-3 SP - 209 EP - 210 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER -