Staying with the Planet: The University That Tried to Reckon with Ecological Reality, Challenged Excessive Data Infrastructures, and Nurtured a Few Al (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837678192)

Stefan Laser (Author)
Stefan Laser is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He has published widely on high-tech infrastructures, socio-ecological transitions, waste, and energy, and contributes to economic sociology, science and technology studies, valuation studies and discard studies. His research focuses on data centres and their planetary entanglement, from local siting to global value chains, in particular researching Asia-Pacific with a focus on the emerging chip industry in Vietnam.

Estrid Sørensen (Author)
Estrid Sørensen is a professor of cultural psychology and anthropology of knowledge at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She conducts research on the intersection of technology and knowledge production from a Science & Technology Studies perspective, and is the head of the RUSTlab, the Ruhr-University Science & Technology Studies Lab. Her ethnographic research addresses data infrastructures, particularly data centres. She inquires into university data centres as mediators between knowledge and the planet, and researches how they contribute to making knowledge (in)visible as planetary.

Sandra Abels (Author)
Sandra Abels studies social sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is a research student at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds. She is interested in science and technology studies, ethnographic research, and research at the boundaries between science and art. For her master's thesis, she is researching the restructuring of a museum's digital data base and the respective data infrastructure.