Portrait of Thomas Keating

Technology and Social Change · Cultural Geography · Deep Time

I am an Assistant Professor working across cultural geography, technology studies, speculative thinking, and the politics of long-duration futures.

My work examines how technologies, infrastructures, and institutions organise social life, and how questions of responsibility, memory, and governance endure across deep time.

I am particularly interested in nuclear futures, technological abstraction, and the conceptual tools needed to think social change otherwise. Across research and teaching, I focus on how social and technical worlds are made imaginable and governable, especially where infrastructures exceed ordinary political timescales.

This website gathers current research themes, selected publications, teaching activity, and contact information.