This symposium, organised by Utrecht University, questions how tech corporations shape climate futures. What visions for the future are emerging, and what are the material and immaterial consequences of the ways in which these futures are advertised and realized? How is the energy landscape changing globally, nationally and locally? Where is resistance developing?
Giving changing geopolitical relations, the symposium aims to discuss the sovereignty of European’s technological and energy infrastructures and consider these in tandem with EU’s climate goals: to what extent are we narrowing the window of potential climate futures through the dependency on Big Tech, and what different futures could be imagined, and realized?