Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair. (...)
Louisiana: A Planetary Reactor
A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate. (...)
“Planting a Seed is a Revolutionary Act"
How a “blues epistemology” can establish the critical historical consciousness crucial for determining more just futures in the Anthropocene. (...)
Layers of Violence
From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction. (...)
Lost Voices
On the shared experiences of those who live along the Mississippi in New Orleans and the Yamuna in Delhi, reciprocal relationships with nature, and the importance of listening in the Anthropocene. (...)
Driving the Limits of Time
How acknowledging and engaging with complex temporal clashes can generate coherent responses to the seemingly totalizing notion of the Anthropocene. (...)
Technosphere Magazine
Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future. (...)
Time Out Of Mind
Jeremy Bolen traces the various human interventions that have shaped Cache River Valley in Southern Illinois, asking what can be learned from this landscape. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: Opening Plenary
A collection of statements from the Opening Plenary of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: Report Plenary I
Critical insights into the plenary on the work of the seminars “Clashing Temporalities”, “Risk/Equity” and “Exhaustion and Imagination” of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Of Forests, of Rivers, and of Meals
How can we think through concerns around food, sustainability and recuperative ecology on a localized level? (...)
Imagining an Economy Based on Care
Andrew Yang and Sarah Lewison urge us to consider the possibilities of moving beyond an economics of extraction. (...)
Acknowledging Indigenous Land and a Performance of "Idle No More"
A bonus episode on centering Indigenous presence on the Mississippi Landscape. (...)
Maa Wákąčąk: Sacred Earth in the Anthropocene
Sarah Kanouse recounts Maa Wákąčąk’s histories of conservation and conquest are anything but “past,” and continue to overlap and exert anthropocenic influence on this sacred earth. (...)
Ecological Inhabitations: A view from the ground—Discussion
Ravi Agarwal and Ashok Sukumaran wrangle with how we might better understand the complexities of anthropogenic processes. (...)
Ecological Inhabitations: A view from the ground—Lecture
Ravi Agarwal brings his interdisciplinary lens to the topics explored at the State of Nature in India 2019 conference. (...)
#6 Intro to Season 2: Migration - Perspectives on Discplacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north. (...)
Lands, Legitimacy, and Lines of Trust
How lines of trust—and their ruptures—shape the affective and physical dimensions of both land and territory. (...)