About

Réka Gál is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto, and currently holds scholarly appointments as a Graduate Fellow at the Centre for Culture and Technology and at the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative. She has completed her master’s in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her work unites feminist media theory, decolonial technoscience, and environmental history to explore how technological tools and scientific methods are employed to purportedly solve socio-political problems. She is the co-editor of Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene, published by meson press. In her DAAD-funded master’s thesis ‘Cosmic Colonial Fantasies,’ she explored the historical stages through which outer space colonial imaginaries evolved, from ancient Greece until the 18th century. She is extending this research during her PhD to map the genealogies of technological maintenance and care labors on space stations, focusing on the implications of human-machine interdependence in outer space as it relates to issues of environmental and labour justice.

Contact:

reka.gal@mail.utoronto.ca