Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives. (...)
Water Language: A Conversation with Shanai Matteson and Oscar Tuazon
From the Iron Range in Minnesota’s Northern reaches to industrial farming in the South, to the strength and vibrancy of its Native reservations, it’s impossible to write about rural Minnesota as a singular place. While urban areas concentrate complexity, rural Minnesota exhibits it over expansive distances. Many of the issues that have made the Twin Cities the recent focus of national attention are echoed in the state's rural struggles. These include explosive fights over social and racial justi (...)
Edible Encounters
Edible Encounters gave us an opportunity to observe the contrast between the wild bursts of biodiversity in the marginal areas along the river and the widespread control of nature exemplified by the endless cornfields in this region. These series of edible encounters and territorial mash-ups offered interpretations of foods that have bioregional origins or are part of long-standing Indigenous traditions or both. It was an opportunity to look to Indigenous knowledge, tradition, and creativity to (...)
Navigating the Anthropocene River
A traveler’s guide to the (dis)comforts of being at home-in-the-world. (...)
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows. (...)
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. (...)
“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. (...)
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. (...)
Speculative Life, Montreal 2017
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In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes? (...)
Questioning Quotidian Anthropocenes
The Open Seminar will direct collaborative attention to the many scales and types of systems that interlace and synergize to produce anthropocenics on the ground in particular locales and vernanculars. (...)
Tactics for Quotidian Anthropocenes: A Field Campus Documentary
How can the Anthropocene be analyzed in its site-specific manifestations? And how can such knowledge be produced collaboratively? A documentary on the knowledge strategies of the first Anthropocene Field Campus. (...)
Anthropocene and the Media
In the context of the seminar “Anthropocene and the Media,” students of new media theorist John Kim have developed diverse approaches and perspectives of examining the Mississippi River in relation to the Anthropocene. (...)
River Semester
Over the course of eighty days, this canoe expedition offers an immersive research program on and along the Mississippi River. (...)
Tactics for Quotidian Anthropocenes: A Field Campus Report
The St. Louis Field Campus aimed at creating situated, place-based perspectives of the Anthropocene, while building new modes of collective knowledge-production and action. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans. (...)
