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Evelyn Brister1, Andrea R Gammon2, Paul B Thompson3
1ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA.
Abstract:
This article explores how time-related metaphors frame advanced cryopreservation technologies in environmental conservation. Cryopreservation "stops" or "freezes" biological time and "buys time" desperately needed to preserve species and ecosystems. We advance a framing of these technologies as logistical, highlighting how they create opportunities to shift materials, knowledge, and decision-making power through space and time. As logistical technologies, advanced cryopreservation techniques require active planning in the present rather than deferring responsibility and accountability to the future.
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