Anthropocene India 2018–
With a regional focus on India, this initiative seeks to dissolve the boundaries between knowledge practices and create cross-disciplinary exchange. (...)
State of Nature in India: An Essay
Artist, environmentalist and curator Ravi Agarwal provides a background and introduction to the State of Nature India in 2018. (...)
On the Operation of Border Regimes
In a filmed conversation, activist Isabelle Saint-Saëns and migration scholar Bernd Kasparek discuss the multiform regimes of border-making and the types of social order being implemented in Europe and internationally. (...)
The Material Order
Do cultural ideas order our material worlds and technologies, or is it the other way around? (...)
Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Climate risk researcher Eberhard Faust and disaster historian Scott Knowles discuss calculating the costs of climate-change-related events. (...)
Jakarta: A Colonial Water-Management Fantasy Park
Philosopher Etienne Turpin sketches the root problematics faced by the city of Jakarta as exemplified by its land and sea interfaces. (...)
Memories of the Yagán: The Chilean Automobile for the People
The story of the Yagán, a low-cost utility vehicle, is one of local craft, misdirected politics, and design on-the-fly. (...)
When the Sea Begins to Dominate the Land
What happens to the baselines under the international law of the sea when coastlines are no longer stable? (...)
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. (...)
Time (and time again)
How does the concept of the Anthropocene help to re-evaluate human and non-human agency across sub-disciplines of history? (...)
Deep Time Chicago 2016–
Deep Time Chicago explores the idea of humanity as a geological agency, capable of disrupting the Earth system and inscribing present modes of existence into deep time. (...)
Anthropotechnics for the Anthropocene
Historian John Tresch looks at the history of modern science from the angle of spiritual athleticism, ascetic practices and epistemic virtues. (...)
continent. inter-view: Bronislaw Szerszynski on the Technosphere
What is the technosphere? This excerpt taken from one of fifteen inter-views by continent., held during The Technosphere Now event, engages speakers in a semi-improvised discussion about their interests and trajectories. (...)
On Anthropotechnics and Physical Practice
How does the human body fit into technospheric conceptualizations of performance, efficiency, and optimization? (...)
Technosphere and Technoecology
In his coining of the term “technosphere,” geoscientist Peter Haff attempts to describe the physical properties of a human-technological system that takes on a role equivalent to the biosphere or hydrosphere. (...)
The Tower. A Concrete Utopia
Urban planning and architecture carry a form of utopian optimism for a livable city with them. Yet, all too often infrastructural dreams turn into nightmares and the skyward ideals of a towered cityscape turns into the symbolism of degraded holes. (...)
Underworlds
MIT’s Sensible City Lab project Underworlds attempts to provide better sensory capacities for understanding bacterial and viral activities in sewer systems to better serve the cities that rely on them. (...)