Laura Op de Beke

University of Oslo

Laura op de Beke is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. In her doctoral project she looks at Anthropocene temporalities in videogames, which manifest as temporal affects: for instance anxiety over the future, petro-melancholia, a preoccupation with death, failure and extinction, as well as technofuturistic hope.

Laura’s other interests include science fiction, green media studies, veganism, LARP, and the environmental humanities more broadly. She is also the founder and co-convenor of the online environmental humanities reading group un-earthed.

www.un-earthed.group.com | www.lauraopdebeke.com

 
 

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All Sessions by Laura Op de Beke

  • 4. Thu

    Games & Climate

  • 14:35  - 14:55
    In Richard Powers’ celebrated ecological novel The Overstory a brilliant programmer develops a videogame called Mastery that takes the world by storm. It is wildly popular and earns him millions of dollars. But the programmer is a chasing a more elusive goal than profit. He wants challenge his players: “to learn what the world will bear,” by incorporating planetary ecological limitations and feedback loops.

    Moving from fiction to fact, in this presentation Laura op de Beke explores how contemporary videogames have started doing the same. Laura is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo where she hopes to defend her dissertation “Anthropocene Temporalities: The Anthropocene as a Structure of Feeling in Popular Gameplay” this winter.
    Where
    Room 211 & via zoom

  • 15:50  - 16:20
    Roundtable with summit speakers.
    Where
    Room 211




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