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Lee Nelson teaches Science and Technology Studies and the Nature of Time I & II in the History of Science and Technology Department at University of King’s College, Halifax. He is an editor for the journals //e-flux// and //Theory, Culture & Society,//and helped create the Student Directed Seminars Program, a democratized education program which enables undergraduate students create their own student and/or faculty run classes for the following year which the university has to facilitate/provide. His first book, //Retrofitting// //Time Production: Obsolescence, Broken World Thinking, and// //Response////-able-ity//, argued for a new metaphysics of time from which the connection between ontology and ethics becomes clear. His second book,//Technological Decay and Obsolete Bodies//, focused on the struggles and resilience of the Refugee Waste and Recycling Labor Group in England’s refugee labor camps, formed in the wake of the Brexit labor shortage crisis and ‘Mass War and Environmental Migration’.He is also author of “Fixing the ‘fix’ in ‘technofix’,” a paper urging for a plural understanding of what it means to, or provide a, ‘fix’. He also founded HeatLess, Inc., in 2020, a not-for-profit company that sells one-time-purchase passive solar heating units for home and apartment complexes, which seeks to decrease overall home and community winter heating cost and carbon emissions.