Franziska von Verschuer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6500904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska von Verschuer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | von Verschuer |
| SIGNATURE | VON VERSCHUER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6293-8254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anthropocene
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Making Post/Anthropocentric Futures in Agrobiodiversity Conservation
Since the mid-twentieth century global modernization of agriculture, seed banking has become a core technoscientific strategy to counteract agrobiodiversity loss and ensure future food security. This article develops a post-anthropocentric reading of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a nodal point of global ex situ conservation efforts. Based on qualitative expert interviews, I explore the rationality of crisis and salvation that underlies these …
Freezing lives, preserving humanism
Cryonics denotes research into and the practice of deep-freezing dead bodies for resuscitation in a technologically advanced future. This article discusses the technoscientific practice and rationality of cryonics, focusing on two aspects in particular: the ways in which conceptions of life and death and their relation are being reconfigured, and the cryonic understanding of personality and its relation to the body. It complements the range of to…
Die Anderen der Reproduktionsmedizin. Feministische Perspektiven auf Arbeit, Familie und Rassismus«
Freezing lives, preserving humanism
Cryonics denotes research into and the practice of deep-freezing dead bodies for resuscitation in a technologically advanced future. This article discusses the technoscientific practice and rationality of cryonics, focusing on two aspects in particular: the ways in which conceptions of life and death and their relation are being reconfigured, and the cryonic understanding of personality and its relation to the body. It complements the range of to…
Die Anderen der Reproduktionsmedizin. Feministische Perspektiven auf Arbeit, Familie und Rassismus«
Freezing lives, preserving humanism
Cryonics denotes research into and the practice of deep-freezing dead bodies for resuscitation in a technologically advanced future. This article discusses the technoscientific practice and rationality of cryonics, focusing on two aspects in particular: the ways in which conceptions of life and death and their relation are being reconfigured, and the cryonic understanding of personality and its relation to the body. It complements the range of to…
Making Post/Anthropocentric Futures in Agrobiodiversity Conservation
Since the mid-twentieth century global modernization of agriculture, seed banking has become a core technoscientific strategy to counteract agrobiodiversity loss and ensure future food security. This article develops a post-anthropocentric reading of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a nodal point of global ex situ conservation efforts. Based on qualitative expert interviews, I explore the rationality of crisis and salvation that underlies these …
Anthropocene
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Anthropocene (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agricultural biodiversity (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Anthropocentrism (1 work)