Projecting the Anthropocene
The Earth system has become increasingly destabilized, with growing
evidence that human activities are the primary cause. However, our
current financial, economic, social, political, and industrial systems are
not evolving fast enough to address the pace and scale of planetary
change. The concept of the Anthropocene (인류세, 人類世) has
provided a novel framework for debating scientific methods of sensing
these transformations, discussing more-than-human ways of inhabiting
together, and exploring arti (...)
Anthropocene Labs
“Anthropocene Labs” is a collaboration with Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), in Daejeon, South Korea. (...)
Evidence Ensembles Publication
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Geology of the Present Publication
The transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene is turning geology into a social science. Researchers and artists grapple with stratigraphic materials and the challenges of in planetary knowledge production. (...)
Press Material GSSP Candidate Site Announcement
Press material on the AWG, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG. (...)
TAR Special Issue
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Anthropocene Commons, 2022 –
Emerging from the Anthropocene Curriculum (2013–22), the Anthropocene Commons is an open network of activists, artists, educators, researchers, and scientists who create shared spaces to imagine and explore transformative pedagogies and research practices for collective action. (...)
Anthropocene Working Group 2009 –
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary geoscience research group dedicated to the investigation of the chronostratigraphic reality of the Anthropocene. The AWG was established in 2009 by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), a component body of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the committee that oversees the standards and requirements for the ongoing review and further completion of the geologic time scale. (...)
KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm 2012–
Understanding the changing human-Earth relation of the Anthropocene by combining research on technology, media, and political ecology with activism and front-line environmentalism. (...)
Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for Environmental SDGs
A research project run by the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment from 2021-2025 exploring the global environment as emerging through environmental data. (...)
SPHERE. Study of the Planetary Human-Environment Relationship
The historical research project SPHERE focuses on one of the most comprehensive and complex governance issues in the contemporary world: humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and constraints. (...)
Chapter 1: Through the Vast Machine
How does planetarity and its composition shift under conditions of planetary change? (...)
Chapter 2: The Book of the Machine
What happens to our visions of the planetary when everyone has to stay at home, in their little boxes, speaking to other people in little boxes? (...)
Chapter 3: The Committee of the Machine
At what point does the planetary scale outweigh its own usefulness as a tool for apprehension, discernment, and interpretation? (...)
Chapter 4: Developments in the Machine
How do the ways in which planetary thinkers do their work affect how the “planetary” emerges as a concept, and the planet itself (re)emerges as an entity? (...)
Chapter 5: The Machine Did Stop
How can experiences of planetary ethics, politics and aesthetic be shared, explored and learned from, together? (...)
Epilogue
What would it mean to let go of our planet, such that it might come back to us? (...)
Introduction
Changes in global conditions create changes in the practices of global science. Do we have a means of tracing these interrelations? (...)
