“What on Earth”: Confluences in the planetary metabolism
Field Station 4 contributor Andrew Yang elucidates on the reasons for taking its title, “Confluence Ecologies,” as a lens through which to apprehend the Anthropocene (...)
Defensive Ecologies: Extracting Asian Carp from the Illinois River
A welcome service laborer turned invasive pest in the Mississippi River, Asian Carp are subject to a variety of efforts to exert control upon their spread and attempts to extract them from the Illinois River. (...)
The Possibility of All Species in an “All Species Parade”
The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is. (...)
Femininity, Fecundity, Flow
Jamie Allen’s “river reflection” on the intimate forces, unflappable momentums, and generous flows that accompanied the launch of a river journey. (...)
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. (...)
Hydraulic Houston
Anthropologist Dominic Boyer and sociologist Mark Vardy describe the amphibious futurism that needs to prevail if Houston is to survive the twenty-first century. (...)
Lands, Legitimacy, and Lines of Trust
How lines of trust—and their ruptures—shape the affective and physical dimensions of both land and territory. (...)
Pictured Journeys, Experiences of Descriptions: Tracing ways down the Mississippi
On the privilege of the storyteller and making visible the various contradictions inherent within efforts to bridge gaps and communicate “what happened” during the Anthropocene River Journey. (...)
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. (...)
Immersion from the Observation Deck
Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape. (...)
Moraine/Terminal
Moraine/Terminal is a portable gathering, exhibition, and conversational space traveling alongside the mobile seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow. (...)
Mississippi Region Nitrogen Dioxide Distribution Map
An ongoing series of satellite maps produced by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, charting nitrogen distribution in the Mississippi region. (...)
Katharine Ordway, Fall 2018
Katharine Ordway, Fall 2018 represents a stationary gesture amid the distanced movements comprising the Listening to the Mississippi project. (...)
Unlearning a territory
Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again. (...)
Postnatural Landscapes
Ancient agricultural practices in the American Bottom were significant in the shaping of the landscapes and foodscapes that exist today. (...)
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? (...)
Mapping the Distribution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the Mississippi Region
What do the spatial patterns of the distribution of nitrogen dioxide reveal about human-environment relations? And how do pollution levels along the Mississippi compare globally? (...)