Seminar: Commodity Flows
The relations between extraction, synthesis, and exploitation, and the effects of commodity dependencies across scales are explored in this seminar, by mapping commodity flows and energy cycles in the Mississippi basin. (...)
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene. (...)
Seminar: Risk/Equity
The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences. (...)
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar. (...)
Anthropocene River School
The Anthropocene River School integrates the work of the Anthropocene River Field Stations and transforms the research into an ongoing, collaborative teaching enterprise. (...)
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge. (...)
Kick-off Anthropocene River Journey
The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering. (...)
Midway Meeting St. Louis
At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis. (...)
New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus
The New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus investigates site-specific processes of environmental change and injustice and develops tactics for interdisciplinary engagement with the Anthropocene. (...)
Open Seminars
Free, online courses which connect people across the globe in an effort to collaboratively produce Anthropocene knowledge. (...)
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. (...)
St. Louis Anthropocene Field Campus
How has the Mississippi River region been documented, analyzed, and described thus far, and how have these practices set the stage for further research? (...)
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. (...)
The Growth and Differentiation of Metabolism: Extended Evolutionary Dynamics in the Technosphere
By going through the transitions in cell evolution and energy regimes, evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler explains the dynamics behind the formation of the metabolic activity and complexity of our planet. (...)
In Search of Freedom in the Anthropocene
The arrival of the Anthropocene coincides with the era of political demands for “universal freedom,” as defined by Western philosophers. But whose freedom is this? (...)
The Abolition of Market Dependency
In this lecture, political scientist Nick Srnicek contends that to relieve humans of their dependency on markets, commodity labor needs to be transformed, if not abolished outright. (...)
Tokens: A Rorschach Test
Blockchain technologies have become the prism through which ideas about trust and social relationships are technologically negotiated. Sociologist and design theorist Benjamin Bratton explores both the potentials and pitfalls of this technical architecture. (...)
The Terrestrial Is Not the Globe
Sociologist and epistemologist Bruno Latour interprets the disorienting situation we currently face along new lines of representation. Using the shift in cosmological perspective from the globe to the Earth brought about by the two concepts of Gaia and the Critical Zone, Latour reflects on the emergence of a new political subject: the “terrestrial.” (...)