Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction. (...)
Sensing the Spree
Exploring technically mediated practices of sensing as used in conservation, as well as nonhuman sensing, where plants themselves become the sensors. (...)
Parallax Soundscape Campus
Exploring sonic culture beyond the limits of theoretical discussion, while acknowledging sound as a vital part of daily experience and scientific research. (...)
Re-Patterning with Kudzu
Through encounters with kudzu (Pueraria montana), the notorious “vine that ate the South,” Ellie Irons tries to re-pattern the settler-colonial environmental imaginary. (...)
(un)mutable channels
Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings. (...)
Changes Flowing from a Heart of America
Riots emerge from voices unheard—reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum guide us to sites of uprising and industrial toxicity on Turtle Island, a.k.a. North America. (...)
Fabled Headwaters of the Mee-zee-see-bee
Voices from the Mississippi Headwaters and Twin Cities share reflections on canoeing, protest and a 100-year history of the region. (...)
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest. (...)
Superfunds and Community Funds
Audio reflections on the river that flows south toward Natchez and New Orleans, stirring up relations between chemistry and commodity, labor and industry, plantation and plantationocene. (...)
Scales of an Anthropocene City
Explorations of suburbia and its “newly urgent legibility” within US political geography blend into personal reflections on modes of living in the St. Louis region and beyond. (...)
Coordinating Practice
The Anthropocene has a coordination problem. This discussion highlights the many challenges of coordinating projects at different scales, both spatially and temporally. (...)
From a Living Exhibition to the DMZ
Space for studying Anthropocene-related changes can occur intentionally, through institutions and other projects, but it can just as easily occur by accident. (...)
A River Semester
Reporting live from the Mississippi River, travelers question how transforming the act of sensing might remake social, political and environmental relations? (...)
Anthropocene Campus Venice
Taking Venice as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics in the water city and beyond. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta short film
Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019. (...)
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River? (...)
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
Check My Pulse
Brian Holmes contemplates how our natural surroundings are suffused with the aftermath of colonial trauma and racial exploitation. (...)
