Domesticating the Anthropocene
The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land. (...)
Significant and Insignificant Mounds
Significant and Insignificant Mounds looks to read two landscapes across one another in order to complicate our understandings of authenticity, meaning, and form. (...)
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene. (...)
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin. (...)
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory. (...)
Over the Levee, Under the Plow: An experiential curriculum
What does it mean to become a responsible guest? This set of field guides and accompanying exercises offer an adaptable tool for the uninvited traveler. (...)
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations. (...)
A Great Green Desert
Ryan Griffis’ pamphlet in the Deep Time Chicago series traces the networks, economies, and monochrome landscapes of US agribusiness. (...)
The Fight for Alaska's Arctic Has Just Begun
Activist and artist Subhankar Banerjee and engineer Lois Epstein depict the threatening environmental impact of an extractivist technosphere. (...)
Vladimir Vernadsky and the Co-evolution of the Biosphere, the Noosphere, and the Technosphere
How does the current notion of “spheres” infiltrate thinking about the bio-techno-sphere, which today seems the best descriptive model for our own habitat? (...)
Citizenship and Technologies of Bordering
Political scientist Kim Rygiel investigates the difficult values that underlie the enforcement of who belongs in a political structure and who does not. (...)
Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia 2017
A collaborative campus hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, from Oct 22–26, 2017. (...)
Molecular Colonialism
Life cannot be coded. With unexpected genetic deviations, matter bites back at the colonizing hand of man. (...)
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways-of-Making of the Dancehall Sound System
Julian Henriques looks at the Jamaican reggae dancehall sound system to explore how this street technology has found creolizing ways to prevail in the neocolonial power struggle between popular culture and Jamaica’s ruling elite. (...)
Resilience as Infrastructure
In the current design of large-scale infrastructural projects, the planetary future hinges on a new norm: perpetual prototyping and demoing. (...)
Risk As Immaterial Raw Material
In this artistic formulation, Florian Goldmann makes popular risk indexes fungible, specifically their conflation of natural disaster with financial disaster. (...)
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Artist and photographer Axel Braun collects case studies on contentious infrastructure projects in order to trace humanity’s development as a geological force. (...)
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago’ pamphlets delve into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem. (...)