The American Bottom
Introduction to the work of the landscape curation project The American Bottom by Matthew Fluharty. (...)
Ancient Bison Herds of the American Midwest and the Domestication of the Lost Crops
How did the ancestors of early agricultural crops spread across space? A research project on the influence of animals on human farming practices. (...)
Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi
What was the impact of the domestication of horses on the natural and cultural landscapes of the Mississippi? This research project takes a closer look at the interconnected relationship between horses and humans. (...)
Listening to the Mississippi, 2019
There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers. (...)
Environmental Geochemistry of River Sediments
What do the layers of river sedimentation reveal about the human impact on the Mississippi river system? (...)
Plant Domestication and Dispersal
How did the agricultural practices of prehistoric civilizations contribute to the environmental conditions of the Anthropocene? (...)
Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations. (...)
Anthropocene River Journey
What travel routes, forms of travel, and narratives are suitable for the new planetary realities? (...)
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises. (...)
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region. (...)
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition. (...)
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. (...)
Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax 2020
The Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax (ACL: Parallax), is an event organised by the Portuguese research center CIUHCT and its project Anthropolands taking place at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, between 6 and 11 January 2020. (...)
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations. (...)
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. (...)
A Great Green Desert
Ryan Griffis’ pamphlet in the Deep Time Chicago series traces the networks, economies, and monochrome landscapes of US agribusiness. (...)