Knowing (in) the Anthropocene
Enlarging the potentiality of the technosphere. Renzo Taddei recatures the seminar’s discussions and endeavors. (...)
Meet the Technosphere
How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective. (...)
Perspectives and Politics
A look into the emergence of the technosphere concept and its implications for environmental governance. (...)
Seminar Reflection: Knowing (in) the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene presents us with a unique set of epistemological challenges. From this vantage point, convener Bronislaw Szerszynski reflects on the discussions and activities of this seminar. (...)
Seminar Reflections: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
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Seminar: Whose? Reading the Anthropocene and the Technosphere from Africa
Pluralization is a step towards a democracy of operative language allowing different markers of time, thought, tools, realities, scales, causalities, effects, and categories to coexist and participate in shaping global vocabularies. (...)
Shadow Speculakon
How can we envision future life-forms? With the help of an overhead projector and paper cutouts we enter the anthropocenic version of Plato’s cave. (...)
Suboptimalism
Biology is resilient because it is suboptimal at all scales. The technosphere, however, seems to take the route of increased optimization. Are we doomed? (...)
The Aesthetic Origins of the Anthropocene
Given the importance of the “start” for the entire Anthropocene narrative, we should consider an aesthetic approach to the question. (...)
The Reed, Slime Mold, and Sprout
From being to becoming: a historical perspective on the dynamics of change. (...)
Driving the Golden Spike—The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space
This micro-publication looks at the city of Chicago as a site of origin for materials, particles, and social relations that define the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. (...)
a n t h r o p o z i n e # 0
“Are we in the Anthropocene?” This publication documents a series of interviews with participants from the Anthropocene Campus in 2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). (...)
Mobile Hedges
The Mobile Hedges (2011) was a public space urban art intervention, designed to create temporary spaces for people to socialize on the famous city square designed by Oscar Niemeyer. (...)
Seminar Report: Geo-Politics
A reflection on the educational experiments and epistemological perspectives of the seminar on geo-politics. (...)
A Visual Montage as Proxy
In his essay on the Anthropocene, Peter Sloterdijk contemplated whether we should be surprised by the ease with which this relatively recent discourse on the geological impact of humanity—which he provocatively called a “synthetic-semantic virus”—has “escaped” beyond the doors of geophysical scholarship into the realm of cultural production. (...)
Alternatives to Global Challenges
A reflection on the Anthropocene thesis as a concept for curatorial ways to address nature–culture relations. (...)
Comics and Graphic Novels
This reflection addresses the realities and politics of “slow media,” using comics to explore how ideals of “slowness” interface with class privilege, consumerism, forms of attention, and counter-culture. (...)
Disciplinarities: Seminar Report
A reflection on the epistemological experiments and contributions that emerged out of the seminar on Disciplinarities. (...)