“Planting a Seed is a Revolutionary Act"
How a “blues epistemology” can establish the critical historical consciousness crucial for determining more just futures in the Anthropocene. (...)
Layers of Violence
From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction. (...)
Driving the Limits of Time
How acknowledging and engaging with complex temporal clashes can generate coherent responses to the seemingly totalizing notion of the Anthropocene. (...)
Rogue Elements of the Upper Mississippi
A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey. (...)
A Suspended Archive
Field work undertaken on the Mississippi River dissolves the distinction between field and archive, evidencing not just attempts to alter the river’s flow, but similarly shifting cultural and political dynamics. (...)
Data Flow
On data provenance: what does it mean to think about data through maize and to think about maize through data? (...)
Deep Time Walking
A reflection on the collision of human and geological time at the site of Ferne Clyff State Park, Illinois. (...)
A Singularity of Time and Place
A contemplation on time and space by Claire Pentecost. (...)
Landscapes of Confluence
Taking a bus tour through the landscapes of the Confluence territory. (...)
Oysters, Selective Pressures, and Antibiotic Resistance in the Mississippi Delta
In addition to its position as a pillar of New Orleans cuisine, the humble oyster has also taken on another, more troubling role—serving as an indicator of water contamination in the Mississippi River Delta and the Lousiana Gulf. (...)
Amongst Relatives
We are permeable beings and perpetually affected by our changing ecosystems. This field guide and accompanying exercises guide us into an embodied present. (...)
Beyond Property
Exploring the evolution of the “ownership model” of property as a technology of the colonial Anthropocene and considering alternative possibilities. (...)
Meskonsing-Kansan
Considering Indigenous land and the (colonial) Anthropocene in the territory between the Wisconsin and Kansas rivers and glaciations. (...)
Shaped by Rivers
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between people, rivers, and the landscape, focusing on the unique setting of the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi region. (...)
Enter Anthropocene: Searching for signal in New Orleans
Despite this quest to identify a formally recognized boundary, perhaps uncertainty is the most effective means of furthering societal recognition of the complexities of human impact. (...)
Seminar Film: Clashing Temporalities
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Clashing Temporalities,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Seminar Film: Commodity Flows
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Commodity Flows,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Seminar Film: Exhaustion and Imagination
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Exhaustion and Imagination,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)