{"id":1319,"date":"2025-04-25T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/decoupling\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:27:55","slug":"steffen-dalsgaard-speaks-on-carbon-at-columbia-universitys-ecology-and-culture-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/decoupling\/steffen-dalsgaard-speaks-on-carbon-at-columbia-universitys-ecology-and-culture-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Steffen Dalsgaard speaks on “Carbon” at Columbia University’s Ecology and Culture seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On April 10th<\/sup>, 2025, Steffen Dalsgaard, Professor at the IT-University of Copenhagen and Principal Investigator for the Decoupling IT project, spoke on the subject of Carbon, Its Economic, Environmental, and Social Impacts at Columbia University in New York City.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Carbon” is arguably one of the most ambiguous commodities of late neoliberal capitalism. The creation of a commodity form focused on carbon is meant to avert climate change by calculating and putting a value on the climate impact of human actions. Yet, this creation both assigns carbon a transformative role in changing individual and collective practices of production and consumption, and at the same time a conservative role by being part of market designs that try to preserve and protect the contemporary capitalist system from itself. This book argues that the ambiguity stems from carbon\u2019s sociomaterial \u201cbeing\u201d as much more than a commodity. Carbon is a chemical element of nature, and as such it is both material and constant, yet fluid in its movement through a diversity of states and bodies \u2013 social as much as material. Most importantly, carbon thus figures in a long range of relationships to other bodies: natural and environmental, economic and political, social and cultural. Yet, even as a commodity carbon is often regarded as intangible and ephemeral \u2013 most importantly as data and information within markets and practices of offsetting, where the credits that are traded have often been accused of being \u201chot air\u201d. The book, in this way, argues that carbon \u2013 as discourse, standard, or sociocultural norm \u2013 values \u201ceverything\u201d, but when priced as a commodity it has to deal with the claim that it refers to \u201cnothing\u201d. In this capacity carbon provides an interesting anthropological and sociological lens for discussing how late neoliberal capitalism deals not only with the contemporary climate crisis, but with value more generally.<\/p>\n

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