Mud, Microfossils, and the Anthropocene
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Philosophy of Nature Is Yet To Come!
Researcher Michael Marker gives the first keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference. (...)
The Art of Climate Emergency
For the third keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference, art historian and cultural critic TJ Demos reflects on the art of climate emergency. (...)
We are All Connected: the State of Nature and What We Are Doing to Ourselves
Poet and author Ruth Padel delivers the second keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference. (...)
Venice: City of the Anthropocene
Pietro Daniel Omodeo looks at the water city as a symbol for human-environment relations in the Anthropocene. (...)
Born a Minim
Imagining the satirical intersection between two disparate worlds—field biology research on army ants and working for a machine learning startup. (...)
If a tree falls, and no data is around…
Environmental historian Johan Gärdebo explores the complex history of the relationship between data and the environment. (...)
Notes Toward a Karachi Ecopedagogy
What does it mean to sense, to know, to witness? Artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani propose an “ecopedagogy” that awakens us to a network of relationality. (...)
A Mirage Mirror
Artist Felipe Castelblanco and researcher Nishant Shah propose that communication must be freed from its desire for intelligibility and claims to knowledge. (...)
Rewriting Climate Politics
How are the relationships between state, market, natural environments, and citizens understood? And how does this create or foreclose political and ethical agency? (...)
Consensus Building: The Clash between Governance and Everyday Life
From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters? (...)
Radio Free Three
What imaginative role can radio have in movement building today? Radio Free Three expands the boundaries of solidarity building within the Stop Line 3 movement. (...)
Shifting Sands or Set in Stone?
Simon Turner reflects on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as both a continual work in progress and a product of centuries of scientific consensus-building. (...)
Evidence & Experiment, Berlin 2022
Through a close reading and contextualization of material evidence of planetary upheaval, the yearlong program Evidence & Experiment gathers material testimonies of the Anthropocene stratum. (...)
Evidence & Experiment, Berlin 2022
Through a close reading and contextualization of material evidence of planetary upheaval, the yearlong program Evidence & Experiment gathers material testimonies of the Anthropocene stratum. (...)
Active Archives
Catherine Russell invites us into the University of Leicester geology archive and proposes that archives are teeming with potential for new understandings. (...)
An Archival Epoch?
How can archival production be a catalyst for urgently needed action? Researchers Jason Ludwig and Tim Schütz reflect on networks of solidarity via the Formosa Plastics Archive. (...)
Archival Phase Shifts
What might an “Anthropocene archive” look like? Media anthropologist Shannon Mattern proposes that it should embrace its ever evolving content, structure and context. (...)