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. (...)
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. (...)
Pockets: Reflections on the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne
How can we perceive the Anthropocene? A contemplation on the ACM’s explorations through the lens of “atmospheric attunements.” (...)
Imagination of the Terra
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Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 2017–
Conceptual, material, and immaterial cultural forms through which environmental knowledge has been recognized, organized, activated, and transmitted in Japan. (...)
Anthropotechnics for the Anthropocene
Historian John Tresch looks at the history of modern science from the angle of spiritual athleticism, ascetic practices and epistemic virtues. (...)
Dancing (the) Technosphere
Tokyo University researchers demonstrate the explicit interfaces between the human somatic niche and the technosphere. (...)
Infrastructure and Affect
Media scholar Lisa Parks describes her phenomenological method of understanding what is at stake when we speak about and imagine media infrastructures. (...)
Larp as Technology
What does it mean to share or feel another’s embodied experience? (...)
On Anthropotechnics and Physical Practice
How does the human body fit into technospheric conceptualizations of performance, efficiency, and optimization? (...)
Potency and Partial Knowledge. An Exercise
While the vast macro and micro scales of the technosphere can be difficult to grapple with, so too is the complexity of its many interactions. The artists Andrew Yang and Jeremy Bolen propose a modest attunement exercise to counter this inaccessibility. (...)
Sensing Air and Generating Worlds of Data
As environments increasingly become computational so does computation become environmental. Jennifer Gabrys shows how the instrumentation of the planet with sensor devices produces specific forms of concretizations that have a life of their own and contour the earthly space anew. (...)
The Virtual Field
Historian of science Etienne Benson describes how the increasingly complex infrastructure of sensing is altering the experience of fieldwork, the persona of the scientist, and the nature of the knowledge that is produced. (...)
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life. (...)
Seminar: Sensing the Insensible
With a critical eye to what aesthetics in/of/through the Anthropocene might mean, we will engage with ways that established forms of perceiving might be transformed in the broadest sense—toward new sensitivities of the long now, and the emergent technosphere that conditions our understanding of it. (...)
Sensing/Knowing
How can we move out of our habitual mode of engaging with space? A field guide for taking a walk through out senses. (...)
Survivalism
Hurry, there are limited seats! Exploring social stratification and the limits of cooperation with the help of peanuts and musical chairs. (...)
Imagine the Anthropocene with a Little Help from the Monster in You...
How can monstrous occurances help us to sense and imagine the sublime? (...)