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John Tresch

John Tresch is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon (2012) and The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science (forthcoming). In 2018 he will take up the Mellon Chair in History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute at the University of London. icon

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We Have Never Known Mother Earth

By John Tresch

In Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime, Bruno Latour aims to reintroduce us to our own planet. The Earth emerges as a bizarre and ...

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