Mikkel Krause Frantzen
@frantzen_mikkel
Associate professor in environmental aesthetics at Cph Uni, Humboldt fellow, literary critic (Politiken), author of 'Going Nowhere, Slow' and 'Klodens Fald' etc
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27-06-2018 19:21:59
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“What if utopia is not doomed to fail, but is the remedy to doom?” Lara Monticelli and Mikkel Krause Frantzen @CVScph on the importance of imagination, speculative fiction and utopianism in dystopian times. Out now #OnlineFirst in the journal. buff.ly/3LSR3WN
Magnus Barsøe's klimadebatbog 'Det grønne pengetræ' rummer en utopi befolket af teknokrater, iværksættere og teknisk uddannede arbejdere, som via en grøn energirevolution har formået at løse klimakrisen og forøge velstanden. Håbet absolut lysegrønt. eftertrykket.dk/2024/08/13/soc…
One stat I haven't been able to stop thinking about since hearing Hannah Daly's presentation earlier this week: Data centres consumed 21% of all electricity in Ireland last year - a huge jump on 2022. So pretty much all growth in renewables has been gobbled up by data centres!