#  Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 27, 2026** 

 12:15PM - 02:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, S354**  

 [1730 Cambridge Street  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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## Disposing Fossil Modernity: The Technopolitics of Carbon Removal

### Speaker

- Andreas Folkers, Marie Curie Fellow, Columbia University.

### Chair

- Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy, Committee on Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

### Contact

**Henry Austin**  
<henryaustin@hks.harvard.edu>

### Abstract

The talk investigates carbon removal and climate remediation as technologies of climate emergency governance beyond the catastrophe threshold. It will illuminate the role of Negative Emission Technologies (NETs) in climate politics and contrast two framings of removal: a tool to guarantee climate mitigation efficiency and a technology of climate repair in an unfolding emergency. I argue that climate repair is part of a broader set of environmental technologies that act in the aftermath of emergencies like restoration, rewilding, and remediation and systematically differ from anticipatory techniques like precaution, preemption, and preparedness.

### Bio

Andreas Folkers is a Marie Curie Fellow at Columbia University, New York and member of the research council of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt. His work brings together Science and Technology Studies and critical theories to analyze topics such as bio- and technopolitics, capital, and climate. During the fellowship, Andreas will work on a project on the technopolitics of carbon removal. His second book *Fossil Modernity. A natural history of the present* (forthcoming with Suhrkamp Verlag, 2026, German; Zone/Princeton University Press 2027, English) provides a critical reappraisal of modernity theory by analyzing the rise, fall, and afterlife of fossil fuels.



 

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