Fieldwork Matters
Clémence Hallé ruminates on the extractive tendencies of knowledge production, which can only be countered through mutual reciprocity. (...)
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. (...)
Blackhawk Park Is Indigenous Land (Beyond Acknowledgment)
How does the legacy of settler colonialism affect and seep into the present? A reflection at Blackhawk Park. (...)
A Singularity of Time and Place
A contemplation on time and space by Claire Pentecost. (...)
Confluence Ecologies Exhibition
What does aesthetic regionalism disclose about local effects of the Anthropocene? (...)
Imagining an Economy Based on Care
Andrew Yang and Sarah Lewison urge us to consider the possibilities of moving beyond an economics of extraction. (...)
Landscapes of Confluence
Taking a bus tour through the landscapes of the Confluence territory. (...)
After the Industrial River: Essay Collection
An essay collection exploring the past and future infrastructural interventions into the Mississippi River. (...)
An Anthropocene Challenge: Creating models for landscape-scale change
How can we develop landscapes in response to the Anthropocene? A reflection on the defunct Upper Harbor Terminal complex. (...)
Fort Snelling's Deep Time Stories
How can we reach a deeper understanding of the human and non-human histories of the landscapes we are familiar with? A deep time reading of Fort Snelling, Minnesota. (...)
One Place, Many Names
What are the ideological underpinnings of common notions of “restoration”? Patrick Nunally explores this question on the site of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, St. Paul, Minnesota. (...)
Riverine
What does it mean to be “riverine”? A collage by artist, writer, and activist Shanai Matteson (...)
The Mississippi River is the Opposite of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a loaded term. In this essay, artist Andrea Carlson reflects on the ideological blindspots of the concept. (...)
Meeker Dam
Bruce Braun turns to the underwater ruins of Meeker Dam to look into the histories and continuities of settler colonialism. (...)
Real Estate River
Extractive processes have historically shaped the human-environment relations along the Mississippi. In this piece, Morgan Adamson calls for a radical new imagining for the river’s future. (...)
In Search of Lost Crops Where the Buffalo Roam
A reflection by archaeologist and ethnobotanist Natalie G. Mueller on how sharing meal of long lost plants transformed her research perspective. (...)
Acquiring and Optimizing Sustainable Relationships for Good Solid Cash Flow Streams. Or, Speaking with Plants.
On the connections between language and landscape, as well the disconnections that can occur when the former is used to frame intentions towards the latter. (...)
Enter Anthropocene: Searching for signal in New Orleans
Despite this quest to identify a formally recognized boundary, perhaps uncertainty is the most effective means of furthering societal recognition of the complexities of human impact. (...)