Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives. (...)
Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem
Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment. (...)
Uncalculated Risk
A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change. (...)
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows. (...)
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice. (...)
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? (...)
Lounging Through the Flood
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Reshaping the Shape
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Contesting the De-industrial Futures of the Upper Mississippi
A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature. (...)
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. (...)
Project Launch Minneapolis
At the opening event of Mississippi. An Anthropocene River collaborators gathered for a public symposium, workshops and field excursions to discuss how the Anthropocene concept can activate novels ways of engaging with global change. (...)
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene. (...)
This Is Not About Survival
This project documents an embodied inhabitation of the Southern Illinois canebrake habitat that is quickly disappearing from the landscape. (...)
How the Technosphere Can Make the Earth More Active
Could it be said that with the development of the technosphere, the Earth is currently undergoing a shift to a state of greater activity? (...)
Taking on the Technosphere: A Kitchen Debate
Science and technology historians Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards ask whether the concept of the technosphere is a truly useful tool, simple silverware, or merely a barren gadget for understanding the current and future condition of planet Earth. (...)
Toxic Sexes: Perverting Pollution and Queering Hormone Disruption
Gender studies scholars Malin Ah-King and Eva Hayward question the essentialist and heteronormative assumptions that frame discourses on endocrine disruptors. (...)
Field Trips
How can we know about the Anthropocene? In a series of field trips and workshops, the ACM18 took the concept into the field. (...)
The Risk Equipment Deserves More Credit: Modeling, Epistemic Opacity, and Immersion
Through examining the way hydraulic engineers employ and tinker with computational models for managing water-related risks, science and technology scholar Matthijs Kouw argues for a more reflected stand against such modeling practice. (...)
