Anthropocene Adjustments
If the technosphere is a condition of the Anthropocene, we ought to acknowledge the dangers of making technology seem “natural.” Critical discard studies can help us make visible the violence that has gone into making the technosphere. (...)
Axiomatic Earth: Cases
Measuring and calculating the twenty-first century. A collection of incidents. (...)
KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application
An algorithmic intermediation between the next mega-earthquake and you: instructions for turning risk into facing up to your danger. (...)
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life. (...)
Seminar: Governing the Technosphere
How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference. (...)
A Scattered World View: Anthropogenic Visions Developed by Participants’ Assignments
A series of case studies on anthropogenic landscapes (...)
Anthropos in the Lakes
How can we ge beyond a Romantic ideal of nature? A visual narration on representations of nature. (...)
Deconstructing the We
Using the Maldives as our (anthropo)scene, we explore how a monolithic and simplistic “We” can be questioned and reframed. Picture Lake Chad as an island of water in the desert and the Maldives surrounded by the rising “blue.” (...)
Freshkills, New York City
How did the former Freshkills landfill in New York City, USA, transform into the wild, yet highly engineered landscape of the landfill mounds? (...)
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources: Applications
Alongside the handbook, a pair of practical applications has been conceived to substantiate the “Valuing Nature” issue. (...)
Gas Flares in the Bakken Oil Fields, Williston, North Dakota, 2013
A reflection on how drilling and fracking technologies have transformed much of North Dakota and Montana. (...)
Hurricane Katrina
Do extreme climate events affect people in equal measure? And how do environmental changes intertwine with pre-existing social inequalities? (...)
Images of the Anthropocene
What images do we get if we try to go beyond aiming to depict the Anthropocene as a general phenomenon? How can we and our everyday practice be visualized? (...)
Imagine the Anthropocene with a Little Help from the Monster in You...
How can monstrous occurances help us to sense and imagine the sublime? (...)
La Arboleda
A case study on the consequences of the mining industry in one of the former biggest mining enclaves in southern Europe: the town Trapagaran in the Basque country, Spain. (...)
Mikado Sol, 2014
A geological map of Paris, layering the “human” with the “natural”. (...)
Nordic Fauna Seen in Nature
Why do botanical collections and collecting spaces come from, and how have they played (an ever changing) part in shaping the world and our shifting understandings of it? (...)
Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway
The phenomenon of Arctic amplification enhances the effects of climate change in the northern latitudes, making the region a “barometer” for future environmental impacts elsewhere. A case study on the scientific community of Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway. (...)
Plastic and Surrogacy
Plastic is one of the most ubiquitous materials of the contemporary moment. How do we deal with its effects on the health of both humans and animals? (...)
Plastics and (In)Fertility
Plastic is a broad and rather deceptive name for a group of synthetic polymers that have become one of the most ubiquitous materials of the contem- porary moment. Composed of long chains of molecules, and derived from oil and natural gas, plastics are incredibly durable. They do not decompose and are predicted to last well beyond human biological time. (...)