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<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><b class=""><font face="Corbel" size="4" class="">A Hybrid Lecture</font></b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><b class=""><font face="Corbel" size="4" class="">Both in Person at MIT BuildingE51- 095<br class="">
(Click <a href="https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=b0818cf0-e8ae-4168-b116-40b33a055502" class="">here </a>to register for Tim Tickets if non-MIT*)<br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><b class=""><font face="Corbel" class=""><font size="5" class="">Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia</font><br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><b class=""><font face="Corbel" size="4" class="">Victor Seow, Assistant Professor at Harvard University</font></b></div>
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</font></b><font face="Corbel" size="4" class=""><b class="">The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit, once the largest in East Asia. Early in the twentieth century, Japanese technocrats started excavating this cavity
with the goal of accessing the purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources that lay underfoot. Today, amid our unfolding climate crisis, it stands as a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized
to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In this talk, I will present an overview of my new book </b></font></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/carbon_technocracy" class=""><font face="Corbel" size="4" class="">Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia</font></a><font face="Corbel" size="4" class=""><b class=""> (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2022).</b></font></div>
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