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The development of open access resources is a core component of Cultures of the Cryosphere. Over the next years, an archive, atlas and new tool for analyzing big data text databases will appear here.

Latest Publications

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Friedrich, Alexander; Anwar, Saba; Biemann, Chris Digital Hermeneutics in the History of Concepts. The Tool Sense Clustering over Time (SCoT): Application, Workflow, and Methodological Questions

In: Möbus, D., Nawroth, C., Leh, A., Störl, U., Hemmje, M. (eds): Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, and Curation. DH 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol 14566. Springer, Cham 2026, pp. 114–142 doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08697-6_6
Friedrich, Alexander; Höhne, Stefan Frischeregime – Biopolitik im Zeitalter der kryogenen Kultur

In: Beregow, E. et al. (eds.): Critical Temperature Studies: Konturen eines Forschungsprogramms. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York (2024), pp. 227–262 doi.org/10.12907/978-3-593-45707-9
Alpsancar, Suzana, et al. “Explanation Needs and Ethical Demands: Unpacking the Instrumental Value of XAI”.

AI and Ethics, Springer, 2024, doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00622-3

Resources

Fact Sheet

Our fact sheet in German and English offers a brief overview of the project as well as 12 theses on refrigerated life in the 21st century.

Fact Sheet in English (PDF)Fact Sheet in German (PDF)

More resources are coming soon. These will include:

Cryogenic Cultures Archive

The Cryogenic Cultures Archive will be opened in 2027 showcasing alternative uses of artificial cold, forgotten technologies, obscure objects of the cryosphere, and potential solutions to the upcoming cooling crunch.

A planetary Atlas of Cold

A CryoMap will produce the first atlas of artificial cold, mapping the emergence and growth of the cryosphere, its hubs, nodes, divergences, and spread.