Lukas H. Seidler

I am a PhD candidate exploring how horticulture and harvesting is being automated.

My research interests lie in-between political ecology, anthropology, and critical theory. I am a part of the Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS) research programme and the Critical Technoscience Platform.

I research the political ecologies of harvest automation by doing an object biography of a harvesting robot. My research examines how its development relates to, breaks with, and augments an economy of spectacles by looking at the robot's varying performances, audiences, socio-material conditions, and forms of exposition (narrative and horticultural), in particular the 2012 Floriade.

I have also written about coloniality and sea-level rise, and (re)thinking some means for living amidst planetary rupture.