Timeslips
On the difference between a river and a boundary. Impressions from the levee and speculations on a view from afar. (...)
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. (...)
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States. (...)
Field Stations
Five Field Stations along the Mississippi River explore novel ways of reading the dynamic Mississippi landscape. (...)
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. (...)
Sacrifice Zones and Portable Climate
How has the extraction of coal throughout Illinois changed the local landscapes and living conditions? A field trip to the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River examined both the intentional as well as unintended, or “feral,” consequences and responses to the practice of coal mining. (...)
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018–19
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy. (...)
Living Arctic Infrastructures
How do Arctic infrastructures “live”? And how does their extractive and appropriative logic do service to a rapidly changing world to come? (...)
Sever. Pre-emptive Strategy for an Open Arctic
In a speculative provocation, researchers Francesco Sebregondi, Alexey Platonov, Inna Pokazanyeva, and Ildar Iakubov ask whether a full-scale, decentralized model of territorial development could be our best option to reckon with an open Arctic Ocean. (...)
Anthropocene Lecture - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
How do we find new forms of coexistence in the landscapes of the Anthropocene? (...)
Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia 2017
A collaborative campus hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, from Oct 22–26, 2017. (...)
Grinders
Photographer Hannes Wiedemann depicts the bodyhacking subculture in California, capturing its adherents in their garages and makeshift laboratories. (...)
Technosphere Verticality
Environmental historian Johan Gärdebo introduces us to the outermost layer of the technosphere, where satellites and their debris now orbit the planet. (...)
Art, Air, and Ideas in the Anthropocene
What does it mean to become aerosolar? Field notes from Berlin (...)
Shadowing the Anthropocene
Erasing the boundaries between the natural and the artificial world with the help of Peter Schlemihl. (...)
Driving the Golden Spike—The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space
This micro-publication looks at the city of Chicago as a site of origin for materials, particles, and social relations that define the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. (...)