Container Love, and Fear
How has the universal standardization of materials, sizes and processes enabled the technosphere to scale to its present scope? (...)
continent. inter-view: Arno Rosemarin on disconcerting technical systems
Experimental collective continent. lead a semi-improvised discussion that hints at the links between the individual and their passions for research. (...)
FlatWorld - A document of real/virtual trauma in the Technosphere
What should we make of the “fire walls” between the real and the virtual? Anthropologist Lucy Suchman attends critically to the imaginaries that are realized in the the figuration of places and bodies simulations. (...)
Islands. Colonialism and Geopolitics
Understanding Australia’s phosphate mining history on Banaba puts into context its current controversial relationship with Nauru and Christmas Island. (...)
Larp as Technology
What does it mean to share or feel another’s embodied experience? (...)
Rifts, Cycles, and Recycles
The human body produces five hundred liters of urine and fifty liters of feces per year, which is equivalent to about half a kilogram of phosphorus. One day’s urine from an adult is sufficient to fertilize a square meter of cropped area for each cropping period. (...)
Sleeping in Public, Working Like Babies
Sleep is a state where we disengage from the world around us both physically and sensuously. But how does this disconnection play a role in our relations to capital, the pharmaceutical industry and our cognitive plasticity? (...)
The Alien Hand of the Technosphere
Philosopher Matteo Pasquinelli investigates the curious history of the phantom limb syndrome and how it chronicles the confluence of war trauma research, neurology, cybernetics and the philosophy of mind. (...)
The Criticality of Phosphorus. Data, Peaks & Politics
The criticality of an element is defined by the relevance of its most important economic applications and the risks, both current and future, to its supply and the sustainability of its extraction and use. (...)
Traumasphere, Thinking through Commodity Violence
Ethnographer S. Løchlann Jain poetically examines how commodities and violence sustain one another in the technosphere. (...)
Ve Vm Vt. The Ideal Cosmic Messengers
Sasha Engelmann and Jol Thomson guide us into the depths of Antarctica’s ancient ice, where ghost-like neutrinos cast electromagnetic showers, or cascades, as they chance to interact with the Earth. (...)
Whistler
In his artistic narration, Nile Koetting cycles through a series of inquiries about free and ubiquitous energy and the spectacle that results. (...)
Anthropocene Adjustments
If the technosphere is a condition of the Anthropocene, we ought to acknowledge the dangers of making technology seem “natural.” Critical discard studies can help us make visible the violence that has gone into making the technosphere. (...)
Bastar Diary
A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community. (...)
Decolonize With
How can we decolonize the disembodied truth-claims of picture making? Instructions for analyzing images using five senses and more. (...)
Economic Framing: Environmental Governance and Teaching Pluralist Economics
What are future decision-makers learning at college today? And how will it effect the direction the Anthropocene is taking? Making the case for a change in the teaching of economics. (...)
Entanglement
In order to rearrange our mental landscapes, we must learn not to pull on one end of the thread, but to engage the knot as a whole. Instructions for a complex relationship role-play. (...)
Feral Technologies: Seminar Report
From David Lynch’s Blue Velvet to Berlin’s ruderal ecology: a video report. (...)