Cultures of the Cryosphere: Charting Emergent Geographies and Historiographies of our Relations with Cold

The ability to artificially cool environments and living entities has driven a powerful set of human imaginaries, all informed by tropes of control: new found abilities to stop and start life at will, to secure and store foods that would otherwise be geographically unavailable, to occupy spaces normally unsympathetic to human life, and to generate forms of knowledge that can now be successfully archived in artificial brains that sit outside conventional bodily housings.

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