Slow Disaster
What is revealed through the politics of pace during disasters? What are the dynamics and political illegibility of slow disaster? (...)
Voice and Representation
How have ideas of equity, security and inclusion become central to scholarship of the Anthropocene? (...)
Financial Markets and the Technospheres They Constitute
In this enlightening lecture, sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina elaborates on three developmental stages in technology that enable the global financial market, and the foreign exchange market in particular. (...)
The Alternative Futures Approach – Modelling the Unthinkable
The technosphere is running in scenario mode. In this introductory lecture, media theorist Sebastian Vehlken picks five exemplary historical scenes to explain how scenario modeling has become a basic function in mediating future crisis. (...)
The Microwave Tower of the NYSE and the Physicality of Finance
Looking at the cables and antennae that bring the networked data between different trading floors into correspondence, Donald MacKenzie depicts the time-critical infrastructure of automated finance. (...)
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. (...)
Petrosens-i-a-bility
Petroleum is a dark, thick distillation of mosses, bones, bodies, and beings condensed over time together. What was it anticipating? Did it expect to be discovered and extracted in such a relative instant? (...)
Resolution
If you need to close your eyes, you may. If you need to leave the room, you may. If you have to leave the exercise, you may. An Exercise in not doing doing. (...)
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life. (...)
Seminar: Governing the Technosphere
How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference. (...)
Seminar: Sensing the Insensible
With a critical eye to what aesthetics in/of/through the Anthropocene might mean, we will engage with ways that established forms of perceiving might be transformed in the broadest sense—toward new sensitivities of the long now, and the emergent technosphere that conditions our understanding of it. (...)
Seminar: Techno-Metabolism
In the course of its productive and consumptive functions, the technosphere transforms energy, materials, and information. It uses energy in part to transform information, while information guides the metabolism of energy. (...)
Survivalism
Hurry, there are limited seats! Exploring social stratification and the limits of cooperation with the help of peanuts and musical chairs. (...)
A Curriculum for the Anthropocene
Scale, metabolism, sensing, agency—this publication introduces some of the concepts essential to the interdisciplinary debate around the Anthropocene. (...)
Seminar Report: Geo-Politics
A reflection on the educational experiments and epistemological perspectives of the seminar on geo-politics. (...)
A Slobjects Exercise: What’s in Our Pockets?
An exercise designed to facilitate a more direct, personalized understanding of the ways in which individual humans, nonhumans, and their attendant objects are connected to the large, often abstract concept of the Anthropocene. (...)
Mapping: An Exercise in Cartography
A cartographic exercise that broaches a conceptual framework for thinking about possibilities of inclusion under the umbrella of Slow Media. (...)
Seminar: Co-evolution of the Technosphere
The biosphere has budded off a second global “sphere,” the technosphere, a technology-based system on which humans now depend—and which they find hard to control. Which tools are needed to ensure human survival in the technosphere? (...)