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ariane.tanner@yahoo.com
Ariane Tanner is an independent researcher and writer. She studied history and philosophy at the University of Zurich; for her PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich she specialized in the history of science. Currently she works as a lecturer and is preparing a book about the history of plankton research and the concept of biomass. In (online) journals she publishes media critiques and writes about ecological issues. She is involved in performance art.
RCC Research Project: Plankton: An Environmental History of Oceanic Biomass, 1850–2020
Lunchtime Colloquium Video - Imaginations of the Perfect Human-Ocean Relation
Selected Publications:
- “Imaginary Worlds: The Human-Ocean-Relation in Fantastic Futures of Affluence and Formidable Visions of Unsettledness.” In A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age, 1920–2000+, edited by Franziska Torma. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2020 (forthcoming).
- “Thinking with Energy: Holism and the History of Energetics.” Environmental History 24 (Forum: The Environmental History of Energy Transitions, edited by Paul Warde and Ian Miller): no. 3 (2019).
- Die Mathematisierung des Lebens. Alfred James Lotka und der energetische Holismus im 20. Jahrhundert (Historische Wissensforschung 8), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
- “Utopien aus Biomasse. Plankton als wissenschaftliches und gesellschaftspolitisches Projektionsobjekt.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 40 (special issue: Lebensraum Meer, edited by Christian Kehrt and Franziska Torma), no. 3 (2014): 323–353.
- “Publish and Perish. Alfred James Lotka und die Anspannung in der Wissenschaft.” NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 21, no. 2 (2013): 143–170.