In our library you will find Nature in the Global South, whose own imagined Museum of Human Welfare inspires our own, and the works of Borges, whose story “La biblioteca de Babel” gives rise to such imagined institutions—institutions that, like Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, remain small even as they materialize in bricks, or, for us, the meeting of a collective.

Like the seminars of the Anthropocene Campus, the books of our library are less likely to be organized by subject or author than by problem of concern and potential for cross-fertilization and collaboration. We invite you to settle in at our standing desks and read a book. How would you design a library for the Museum of the Anthropocene?

• Bashford, Alison, “The Anthropocene is Modern History: Reflections on climate and Australian deep time,” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (2013): pp. 341–9.
• Brand, Stewart, Clock of the Long Now: Time and responsibility. London: Phoenix, 1999.
• Cameron, Fiona and Brett Nielson, Climate Change and Museum Futures. London: Routledge, 2015.
• Christensen, Miyase et al., “Climate Change Show and Tell,” Le Monde diplomatique (posted November 2014), online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• Crutzen, Paul J., “Geology of Mankind,” Nature, vol. 415 (2002): p. 23.
• Crutzen, Paul J., “The ‘Anthropocene’,” Journal de Physique IV, vol. 12 (2002): p. 447.
• Crutzen, Paul J. and Will Steffen, “Editorial Comment: How long have we been in the Anthropocene era?,” Climatic Change, vol. 61, no. 3 (2003): pp. 251–5.
• Crutzen, Paul J. and Eugene F. Stoermer, “The ‘Anthropocene’,” International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Global Change Newsletter, vol. 41 (2000): pp. 17–18.
• Eno, Brian, “The Big Here and the Long Now,” The Long Now Foundation, online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• Hamann, Alexandra et al. (eds), Anthropozän: 30 Meilensteine auf dem Weg in ein neues Erdzeitalter. Eine Comic-Anthologie. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2014.
• McCalman, Iain, “The Eidophusikon: A modern simulation of an eighteenth-century moving picture show,” online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• McCalman, Iain, “Magic, Spectacle, and the Art of de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon,” in: Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough’s Cottage Door. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 180–97.
• Möllers, Nina and Luke Keogh, “Pushing the Boundaries: Curating the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum,” in: Fiona Cameron and Brett Neilson (eds), Climate Change, Museum Futures: The roles and agencies of museums and science centers. London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 78–89.
• Möllers, Nina et al. (eds), Willkommen im Anthropozän. Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2014.
• Möllers, Nina et al. (eds), Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in our hands. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2015.
• Monastersky, Richard, “Anthropocene: The human era,” Nature News and Comments (posted 11 March 2015), online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• Morgan, Ruth A., “Histories for an Uncertain Future: Environmental history and climate change,” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (2013): pp. 350–60.
• Newell, Jennifer, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner, Curating the Future: Museums, communities and climate change. Honolulu and Melbourne: University of Hawaii Press and CSIRO Publishing, forthcoming.
• Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
• Norgaard, Richard, “Finding Hope in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,” Conservation Biology, vol. 22, no. 4 (2008): pp. 862–9.
• Robin, Libby, “Dead Museum Animals: Natural order or cultural chaos?,” reCollections, vol. 4, no. 2 (2009), online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• Robin, Libby, “The Love–Hate Relationship with Land in Australia: Presenting ‘exploitation and sustainability’ in museums,” Nova Acta Leopoldina Neue Folge (Interdisciplinary Journal of the German Academy of Sciences), vol. 114, no. 390 (2013): pp. 47–63.
• Robin, Libby, “Histories for Changing Times: Entering the Anthropocene?,” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (2013): pp. 329–40.
• Robin, Libby et al. (eds), The Future of Nature: Documents of global change. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
• Robin, Libby et al., “Three Galleries of the Anthropocene,” The Anthropocene Review, vol. 1, no. 3 (2014): pp. 207–24.
• Ruddiman, William F., “The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago,” Climatic Change, vol. 61, no. 3 (2003): pp. 261–93.
• Scherer, Bernd. et al., The Anthropocene Project. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2014.
• Schwägerl, Christian, The Anthropocene: The human era and how it shapes the planet. Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2014.
• Snaebjörnsdottír, Bryndís and Mark Wilson, Nanoq: Flat out and bluesome: a cultural life of polar bears. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2006.
• Trischler, Helmuth, The Anthropocene in Perspective. Munich: Rachel Carson Center, 2013.
• Wells, H. G., Julian Huxley and G.P. Wells, The Science of Life. London: Cassell, 1931.

Shelf of alternative manufacturing processes

• Biolace by Carole Collet
  An exploration of how synthetic biology could lead to a future manufacturing process for textiles and food. The project tackles ideas such as manufacturing rhythms, collaboration/co-creation with nature, and collaboration between scientists and designers.
• Alive/En vie by Carole Collet
  Collet also curated a show two years ago in Paris which looked at alternative manufacturing processes and our evolving relationship with nature. Many interesting projects were condensed in this show.

Shelf of experiences

• Nelly Ben Hayoun
  Ben Hayoun designs extreme experiences relating to the field of science and aims to make science more accessible. Recently, she developed the “Disaster Playground” project, where she investigates and reveals the emergency procedures for disasters such as Earth-bound rogue asteroids. She is interesting to cite for her design process, in which experience is core.

Shelf of material storytelling

• The Materiality of a Natural Disaster by Hilda Hellström (vimeo)
  Hellström created a collection of vessels with radioactive soil from the Fukushima region, after the nuclear catastrophe. The vessels are useless because of their radioactivity. The event is physically “contained” in the material of the object.
• Craft in the Anthropocene: The future of geology
  With a speculative scope, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo explores how materials can invite an audience of experts as well as non-experts to engage in and provide knowledge around the Anthropocene. She manufactures the fossils of the future with the most prevalent materials we produce and use, calling these speculative rocks “material tales.” This questions the value and perception of materials. It also investigates how the future materials born from human activity will affect craftsmanship.

• Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1994.
• Boone, Elizabeth Hill and Walter Mignolo (eds), Writing without Words: Alternative literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
• Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and slow time in the information age. London: Pluto Press, 2001.
• Fabian, Johannes, Time and the Other: How anthropology makes its object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
• Gell, Alfred, The Anthropology of Time: Cultural constructions of temporal maps and images. Oxford: Berg, 1992.
• Kittler, Friedrich A., Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
• Norgaard, Richard, “Finding Hope in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,” Conservation Biology, vol. 22, no. 4 (2008): pp. 862–69.
• Norton, Quinn, “Against productivity,” Medium.com, 2014; online.
• Postman, Neil, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public discourse in the age of show business. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
• Stengers, Isabelle, “The Cosmopolitical Proposal,” in: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 994–1003.

• Basso, Keith H., Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
• Cruikshank, Julie, Do Glaciers Listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.
• DiNovelli-Lang, Danielle, “The Return of the Animal: Posthumanism, indigeneity, and anthropology,” Environment and Society: Advances in Research, vol. 4, no. 1 (2013): pp. 137–56.
• Haraway, Donna, When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Hayward, Eva, “FingeryEyes: Impressions of cup corals,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 25, no. 4 (2010): pp. 577–99.
• Hutto, Joe, Illumination in the Flatwoods: A season living among the wild turkeys. Guilford, CT: Lyons and Buford, 1995.
• Ingold, Tim, Being Alive: Essays on movement, knowledge and description. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
• Kirksey, S. and Stefan Helmreich, “The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 25, no. 4 (2010): pp. 545–76.
• Kohn, Eduardo, How Forests Think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
• Ogden, Laura A., Swamplife: People, gators, and mangroves entangled in the Everglades. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
• Ray, Janisse, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.
• Rose, Deborah Bird, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for decolonisation. UNSW Press, 2004.
• Tsing, Anna, “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as companion species,” Environmental Humanities, vol. 1 (2012): pp. 141–54.
• Vitebsky, Piers, The Reindeer People: Living with animals and spirits in Siberia. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.

• Aarseth, Espen J., Cybertext: Perspectives on ergodic literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
• Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacros e Simulação. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água, 2002.
• Baudrillard, Jean, The Conspiracy of Art. New York: Semiotext(e), 2005.
• Beaty, Bart, “The Recession and the American Comic Book Industry: From inelastic cultural good to economic integration,” Popular Communication, vol. 8, no. 3 (2010): pp. 203–7.
• Bulmer, Sandy and Margot Buchanan-Oliver, “Visual Rhetoric and Global Advertising Imagery,” Journal of Marketing Communications, vol. 12, no. 1 (2006): pp. 49–61.
• Castaing-Taylor, Lucien and Véréna Paravel, Leviathan, documentary film, 2012.
• Ciment, Gilles, “La bande dessinée, pratique culturelle,” in: É. Maigret and M. Stefanelli (eds), La bande dessinée: une médiaculture. Paris: Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 117–29.
• David, Sabria, et al., “The Slow Media Manifesto,” Slow Media (posted 2010), online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• David, Sabria, et al., “Slow: The open alternative to platform capitalism,” Slow Media (posted 2015), online (accessed 12/07/2015).
• Demson, Michael and Heather Brown, “‘Aint I de Maine Guy in dis paRade?’: Towards a radical history of comic strips and their audience since Peterloo,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011): pp. 151–67.
• Ewen, Stuart, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the social roots of the consumer culture, 25th anniversary edition. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
• Fisher, Mark, Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? Winchester: Zero Books, 2009.
• Gan, Elaine, “Rice Child (Stirrings),” exhibit. Santa Cruz: University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Digital Arts Research Center, 2011.
• Greenberg, Clement, “Steig’s Cartoons: Review of All Embarrassed by William Steig,” in: J. Heer and K. Worcester (eds), Arguing Comics: Literary masters on a popular medium. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004, p. 40.
• Groensteen, Thierry, “Why Are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization?,” in: J. Heer and K. Worcester (eds), A Comics Studies Reader. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 3–11.
• Hampton, Darlene Rose., “Bound Princes and Monogamy Warnings: Harry Potter, slash, and queer performance in LiveJournal communities,” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 18 (2015).
• Hatfield, Charles, Alternative Comics: An emerging literature. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
• Hayles, N. Katherine, How We Think: Digital media and contemporary technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• Kirksey, Eben (ed.), The Multispecies Salon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Klein, Naomi, No Logo. London: Fourth Estate, 2010.
• Kress, Gunther, “‘Partnerships in Research’: Multimodality and ethnography,” Qualitative Research, vol. 11, no. 3 (2011): pp. 239–60.
• Liu, Yvonne Yen, Good Food + Good Jobs for All: Challenges and opportunities to advance racial and economic equity in the food system. New York: Applied Research Center for Racial Justice Through Media Research and Activism, 2012.
• Louro de Silva, Ivo Miguel, As dimensões ambientais da publicidade. Estudo de caso: ACV de uma campanha publicitária no formato MUPI. Lisboa: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2013.
• Madsen, Michael, Into Eternity, film. Magic Hours Films, 2010.
• Maigret, Éric, “Bande dessinée et postlégitimité,” in: É. Maigret and M. Stefanelli (eds), La bande dessinée: une médiaculture. Paris: Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 130–47.
• Martínez-Alier, Joan, et al., “Sustainable De-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm,” Ecological Economics, vol. 69, no. 9 (2010): pp. 1741–7.
• McMillan, Tracie, quoted in Rebecca Burns (ed.), “Food Fight: Feminists and femivores—Is slow food about politics, privilege, or oppression?,” in These Times (posted 2013), online (accessed 12/08/2015).
• Mendick, Heather, “Social Class, Gender and the Pace of Academic Life: What kind of solution is slow?,” Forum for Qualitative Social Research, vol. 15, no. 3 (2014).
• Nagle, John Copeland, “Cell Phone Towers as Visual Pollution,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, vol. 23 (2009): pp. 537–68.
• Osbaldistan, Nick, Culture of the Slow: Social deceleration in an accelerated world. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Portella, Adriana, Visual Pollution: Advertising, signage and environmental quality. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
• Pustz, Matthew, Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and true believers. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
• Sacks, Shelley, Exchange Values. Achberg: FIU-Verlag, 2007.
• Scott, Suzanne, “Fangirls in Refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture,” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 13 (2013).
• Smithson, Robert, Robert Smithson, the collected writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
• Tinker, Emma, “Manuscript in Print: The materiality of alternative comics,” Literature Compass, vol. 4, no. 4 (2007): pp. 1169–82.
• Warhol, Andy, Empire, film. Rarovideo, 2002 [1964].
• Woo, Benjamin, “The Android’s Dungeon: Comic-bookstores, cultural spaces, and the social practices of audiences,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011): pp. 125–36.

Definition:

• “fence, n.,” OED Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2014 (accessed online 12/05/2014).
• Finney, Carolyn, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the relationship of African Americans to the great outdoors. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
• Kosek, Jake, Understories: The political life of forests in northern New Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
• Netz, Reviel, Barbed Wire: An ecology of modernity. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009 [2004].

Other:

• Barbed wire (accessed 03/16/2015).
• Jail/USA flag (accessed 03/16/2015).
• “Utah Seeks to Annex Federal Lands,” GeoCurrents (posted 06/17/2012), (accessed 03/16/2015).