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Adrien de Sutter

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Cosmological ethnographer

Adrien de Sutter is a trans-disciplinary researcher, specializing in physics, technology and the sociology and ethnography of science. Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, his work explores processes of cosmos-making in and beyond modern cosmology.

De Sutter is critical of the idea that scientific cosmology provides the only viable description of the cosmos, or that there could ever be a single, final theory of the universe as a whole. Instead, he argues, the universe is a more diverse place than physics could ever hope to describe by itself. Indigenous and other non-Western cosmologies, he argues, must stand alongside scientific cosmology to enable us to be what Ursula Le Guin called "realists of a larger reality."

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Adrien de Sutter is a trans-disciplinary researcher, specializing in physics, technology and the sociology and ethnography of science. Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, his work explores processes of cosmos-making in and beyond modern cosmology.

De Sutter is critical of the idea that scientific cosmology provides the only viable description of the cosmos, or that there could ever be a single, final theory of the universe as a whole. Instead, he argues, the universe is a more diverse place than physics could ever hope to describe by itself. Indigenous and other non-Western cosmologies, he argues, must stand alongside scientific cosmology to enable us to be what Ursula Le Guin called "realists of a larger reality."