Interview: Exhaustion and Imagination
How could the exhausted landscapes and ways of living of the Mississippi Delta be approached by learning to trust in sources of collective imagination? (...)
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River short film
A short film about the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project, including interviews and footage shot down the journey down the length of the Mississippi River. (...)
#6 Intro to Season 2: Migration - Perspectives on Discplacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north. (...)
Lands, Legitimacy, and Lines of Trust
How lines of trust—and their ruptures—shape the affective and physical dimensions of both land and territory. (...)
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice. (...)
#5 Cooperation Jackson & the struggle for the waterways (live in Jackson, MS)
Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership. Listen to episode 5 now! (...)
Faith, Family, Farming
Tracing the role folklore has played—and continues to play—in the quantification and gridification of American landscapes, and the harvesting of worth of all kinds (...)
Myths and Realities of the Kudzu Plant: On re-patterning, pigment, and entanglement
Reflecting on a workshop where participants engaged in a sensorial manner with the invasive kudzu plant—creating watercolor paints from its blossoms and leaves. (...)
Lost Crops Conversation
A conversation on the evolution of agriculture and foodways, and how that has affected representations of landscape, cuisine—and a cracker box. (...)
Moraine/Terminal
Moraine/Terminal is a portable gathering, exhibition, and conversational space traveling alongside the mobile seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow. (...)
#3 Perils of Privatization in NOLA
Jared Richardson and Dr. Justin Hosbey grapple with neoliberalism’s effects on Black communities within New Orleans. Listen to episode 3 now! (...)
#4 Black Ecologies: Historicization & Futures
On the spatial politics of plantation economies and the connection between faith and environmentalism. Episode 4 available now! (...)
#2 Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now! (...)
Edible Matters along the Mississippi
How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River. (...)
In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes? (...)
Taking on the Technosphere: A Kitchen Debate
Science and technology historians Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards ask whether the concept of the technosphere is a truly useful tool, simple silverware, or merely a barren gadget for understanding the current and future condition of planet Earth. (...)
Anthropocene in the Cell
What does it take for the life sciences to reflect on themselves and their conceptual models in the era of the technosphere? (...)
The Chemist and the Breacher
More than a metaphor describing the technosphere, addiction in fact characterizes it. Artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann collage a series of interviews and research vignettes on methamphetamine in the US. (...)