Sitopia: The Power of Thinking Through Food
Architect and food thinker Carolyn Steel provides a powerful prompt for us to move beyond the perils of the modern industrial food complex. (...)
Soil’s Metabolic Rift: Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium
What can we learn about care and processing emotions from soil cultivation? (...)
Castes of Environment: Dalit & Green Politics
Award-winning journalist Mukul Sharma underlines the relationship between caste and nature in the context of Indian environmental politics. (...)
Addiction, a Technology Mediating China and Europe
Looking at opium at a historical intersection between Western European culture and Chinese tradition, philosopher Paul Boshears examines how addiction has come to define human relations and intelligence. (...)
The Chemist and the Breacher
More than a metaphor describing the technosphere, addiction in fact characterizes it. Artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann collage a series of interviews and research vignettes on methamphetamine in the US. (...)
A Great Green Desert
Ryan Griffis’ pamphlet in the Deep Time Chicago series traces the networks, economies, and monochrome landscapes of US agribusiness. (...)
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? (...)
Recapitulations
“The Elemental” served as the analytical focal point of the ACM18. But how does the ACM18’s commitment to questions of matter shape and affect processes of knowledge production and reproduction? (...)
Couture Cosmetique
By rejecting the normative concepts we project onto technology, Terre Thaemlitz points toward what other visions of the human might be freed up in the process. (...)
Rainbow Family
Composer, musicologist, and improviser George Lewis explores the issues that arise in encounters between machine listeners and their biological counterparts. (...)
WaveNet: On Machine and Machinic Listening
Guest curator Stefan Maier introduces WaveNet, Google’s recently released speech synthesizer that is capable of both remarkable realism and abjection through applied machine listening. (...)
Anthropocene Campus Melbourne 2018: A Report
This report reflects on the ACM18’s guiding theme of “the Elemental” and traces how the concept of the Anthropocene relates to problems of materiality. (...)
Performing the Anthropocene
An examination of the multifaceted endeavor of making sense of the Anthropocene (...)
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.” (...)
The Lena Is Worthy of Baikal: Defining Remoteness Across the North and the East
Inspired by the Lena River Delta in northern Siberia, Ksenia Tatarchenko reflects on filmic dramatizations of far-off and inaccessible places, capturing the role Soviet modernity had in establishing interconnection in isolation. (...)
Anthropocene India 2018–
With a regional focus on India, this initiative seeks to dissolve the boundaries between knowledge practices and create cross-disciplinary exchange. (...)
Biopolitics of Trust in the Technosphere
Who is trusted to take care of others? Feminist science and technology studies scholar Kalindi Vora investigates the relationships between surrogates and commissioning parents. (...)
The Byzantine Generalization Problem: Subtle Strategy in the Context of Blockchain Governance
Researcher Kei Kreutler analyzes the decentralized, consensus-driven decision processes implemented in blockchain technologies. (...)