Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2’s Contested Ecologies
An article that examines the Biosphere 2 project’s origins and afterlives as a way to consider contested theories of ecology, crisis, and response.
“Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2’s Contested Ecologies” by Erik Carver and Janette Kim has been published in Volume 20: Storytelling, and in Urban China bootlegged by C-Lab for Volume. We examine the Biosphere 2 project’s origins and afterlives as a way to consider contested theories of ecology, crisis, and response– as well as ideologies of self-sufficiency in contemporary urbanism.
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