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. (...)
Sitting On Top of the World: Meridional Media, Arctic Condescension, and Northern Techniques
Jamie Allen’s writings map the relations, tensions, and collusions between material and knowledge infrastructures and actual and modelled ecologies, and Merle Ibach prepares images to accompany these. (...)
Conversations on the Elemental
How can the concept of “the Elemental” inform the ways in which we speak about the Anthropocene? (...)
Sever. Pre-emptive Strategy for an Open Arctic
In a speculative provocation, researchers Francesco Sebregondi, Alexey Platonov, Inna Pokazanyeva, and Ildar Iakubov ask whether a full-scale, decentralized model of territorial development could be our best option to reckon with an open Arctic Ocean. (...)
The Arctic Upside Down
Literary scholar Karen Pinkus puts current polar geoengineering scenarios and their uncertain consequences into context. (...)
To See a World in a Grain of Rice: Temporalities of a Flowering Grass and the Great Acceleration
Artist and environmental humanities scholar Elaine Gan tells the story of two different grains of rice. To engineer the ecology and growth cycles of these grains is to change river flows and the multiple rhythms of life and death. (...)
Grinders
Photographer Hannes Wiedemann depicts the bodyhacking subculture in California, capturing its adherents in their garages and makeshift laboratories. (...)
Kish, an Island Indecisive by Design
The Iranian island of Kish exemplifies how territorial separation can lead to political and economic hubris in the form of a globalized free-trade zone. (...)
Bound with Bright Beautiful Things
A consideration of human exceptionalism that draws inspiration from Panchatantra, the famous collection of animal fables. (...)
Contra Diction. Speech Against Itself
What techniques do we use when we navigate between the human voice, governmental law and the concept of justice in the technosphere? (...)
Deserts. The Geopolitics of Geology
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the growing dependency of national food supplies on fertilizer has turned phosphorus into a critical resource within geopolitical conflicts. (...)
Sound and Pain
One cardinal source of the trauma induced by the technosphere is sonic: the ubiquity of anthropophonic vibrations passing through our environments. (...)
The Tower. A Concrete Utopia
Urban planning and architecture carry a form of utopian optimism for a livable city with them. Yet, all too often infrastructural dreams turn into nightmares and the skyward ideals of a towered cityscape turns into the symbolism of degraded holes. (...)
Whistler
In his artistic narration, Nile Koetting cycles through a series of inquiries about free and ubiquitous energy and the spectacle that results. (...)
Worshipping Along the Routes of Migration
Gerda Heck demonstrates how Pentecostal churches have become powerful infrastructural actors that hold together mobile communities between Africa and Europe. (...)
Résonance Végétale
Music creation by Xu Yi, for the Cucurbital Orchestra, video and electronic device spatialized in multi-tracks. (...)
Meet the Technosphere
How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective. (...)
Romancing the Anthropocene
Adventures between Technofauna and Mauerite: A personal narrative of travels in the Anthropozöic region of Berlin Moabit in the year 2016. (...)