Keyword: Agency
- contributionCarlina Rossée, John Kim, Aleksandra Kaye
Mining Conversations
Mining Conversations invites you to join its initial online session The Futurepasts of … Copper. It will be the start of a monthly online series to critically reflect and discuss extraction and energy landscapes, across geographies and temporalities—up to this moment in which resource regimes more than ever shape economic, societal and environmental realities planetarily and locally in very unequal ways.
Mining, Extraction, Agency, Critical materials
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TALK: Plantationocene with Maan Barua
What might it mean to articulate environmental transformations as outcomes of a Plantationocene?
Agriculture, Capitalism, Anthropos, Agency, Extraction
- contributionRavi Agarwal
It's Not So Bad to be Wild, Wilful and Peaceful
Conservation biologist and author Neha Sinha addresses animal sentience, arguing that understanding the wilful animal is a means of understanding our own place in the world.
Reflection, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations, Human-animal relations, Agency
- projectRavi Agarwal
Literature and Conversations: State of Nature 2022
Curator of literature Ranjit Hoskote conceptualised a program of conversations with prominent writers, poets, and essayists for State of Nature: New Natures, 2022.
Communicating, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Scale, Knowledge production, Biodiversity, Agency, Human-animal relations
- projectBuhm Soon Park, Myung Ae Choi, Seul-gi Lee
Centre for Anthropocene Studies, South Korea 2018–
Provoking a paradigm shift in academic research, public policy, and social engagement through collaborations with scientists and artists.
Sensing, Teaching, Engagement, Conversation, History, Disaster, Species, Biodiversity, Agency
- contributionRebecca Freeth, Jeremias Herberg
Relational Repair
A conversation about repair, drawing on experiences from East Germany and South Africa.
Conversation, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Care, Complexity, Ethics, Race, Policy
- contributionHuiying Ng, Noah Tanigawa, Maria Kazvan
Incarnate Witnesses
A reflection on the contemporary conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine, offering three perspectives on the trauma of war and possibilities for repair.
Conversation, Engagement, Film, Reflection, Agency, Care, Embodiment, Ethics, Violence, Affect
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A Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene
Where is the Planetary? curatorial statement
Engagement, Communicating, Experiment, Storytelling, Scale, Agency
- contributionJamie Allen, Irka Hajdas
Exchange On Deep Time And Deep Responseability
How do the geochronologists and geohistorians understand their response-ability to material signals from the past?
Conversation, Reflection, Stratigraphy, Time, Deep time, Agency
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Unearthing the Present
What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Conversation, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Agency, Anthropos, Biosphere, Carbon, Climate change, Data, Deep time, Extraction, Ocean, Radioactivity, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy
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What if the Dam was removed?
What could a single major infrastructural decision tell us about the situational contexts of bringing about lasting change?
Case Study, Conversation, Infrastructure, Governance, Landscape, Agency, Water
- contributionXandra van der Eijk
Visualizing the Vibrant Materiality of Place
What insights can artistic research data produce in the scientific analysis of the natural archive? Xandra van der Eijk addresses the value of artmaking with, through, and between the materiality of place in the sediment samples of Sydney Harbour.
Case Study, Sensing, Agency, Complexity, Critical materials, Hybrid, Aesthetics, Pollution, Degradation, Toxicity
- contributionXavier Roqué
Small Agency in the Nuclear Anthropocene
Through the case of the nuclear accident at Palomares, Spain, historian of science Xavier Roqué shows the importance of local actants and scarce resources in registering and understanding Anthropocene-scale phenomena.
Case Study, Agency, Consensus, Disaster, Engagement, Local knowledge, Radioactivity
- contributionFranz Mauelshagen
Historical Assessment of the “Anthropogenic” Factor
Starting from a review of the Orbis Spike hypothesis, this essay by the Anthropocene historian Franz Mauelshagen compares the early modern “Agrarian Acceleration” during the Little Ice Age with the material world of the twentieth century.
Modeling, Reflection, Agriculture, Agency, Human-environment relations, Metabolism, Model, History, Holocene
- contributionSimon Turner, Adania Shibli
Interview: Consensus Building
Seminar moderators Adania Shibli and Simon Turner reflect on the meaning of consensus building in the Anthropocene and ask, what enables consensus to occur?
Consensus Building, Agency, Consensus, Knowledge production, Engagement
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The Shape of a Practice: Online Project Environment
A dynamic virtual landscape served as a venue for The Shape of a Practice.
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Topology, Agency, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Platform
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Case Studies and Seminars: The Shape of a Practice
The week-long The Shape of a Practice event, which took place in October 2020, was a product of a diverse collection of case studies.
Sensing, Reflection, Conversation, Case Study, Consensus Building, Archiving, Communicating, Agency, Network, Complexity, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Topology
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The Shape of a Practice 2020
The Shape of a Practice constituted an experiment in negotiating the particularities of context, purpose, and method.
Engagement, Experiment, Case Study, Conversation, Sensing, Reflection, Agency, Consensus, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Topology
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Myung Ae Choi
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Film, Reflection, Sensing, Affect, Agency, Care, Climate change, Carbon, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Extraction, Pollution, Race, Local knowledge
- contributionFritz Habekuß
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?
Field Study, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Agriculture, Anthropos, Commodities, Environmental Justice, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Toxicity
- contributionAdam Crosson, Monique Verdin, Monica Moses Haller
Specifics of Vulnerability
What can be learned from attuning to the specifics of vulnerability when artificial realities are interrogated?
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Agency, Care, Ethics, Education, Infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Imaginary
- contributionSarah Lewison
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.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Field Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Architecture, Commodities, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Extraction, History, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Race, Slavery
- contributionJoe Underhill
Navigating the Anthropocene River
On immersive, field-based education and an exploration of the (dis)comforts of an approach Anthropocene River Travelers describe as “being at home-in-the-world.”
Teaching, Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Sensing, Education, Agency, Habits, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Water, Wisdom
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Technosphere Magazine
Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future.
Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Film, Modeling, Reflection, Storytelling, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Anthropology, Big data, Capitalism, Complexity, Critical materials, Economy, Extraction, Governance, Infrastructure, System, Human-environment relations
- contributionNicholas Brown, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis
Blackhawk Park Is Indigenous Land (Beyond Acknowledgment)
How does the legacy of settler colonialism affect and seep into the present? A reflection at Blackhawk Park.
Reflection, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Violence, Agency
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
Acknowledging Indigenous Land and a Performance of "Idle No More"
A bonus episode on centering Indigenous presence on the Mississippi Landscape.
Engagement, Storytelling, Local knowledge, Agency, Representation, Naturecultures
- contributionSarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown
Chi-Nations Youth Council
In this short film, Adrian Pochel, one of the lead organizers of the Chi-Nations Youth Council talks through the group’s work promoting Indigenous rights in the city of Chicago.
Film, Case Study, Reflection, Indigenous Rights, Agency, Care, Engagement, Equality, History, Inequality, Life, Network
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New Aurora, Louisiana, USA
Agency, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Perception, Representation
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Reflection, Conversation, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Capitalism, Consensus, Contingency, Epistemology, Ethics, Representation, Sharing economy, Extraction
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Adaptation, Agency, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Future, Knowledge transformation, Landscape, Perception, Flooding, 2019
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Conversation, Agency, Care, Deep time, Evolution, Life, Resilience, Race, Environmental Justice, Cosmologies, Women, Maternal deep time
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Autonomy, Embodiment, Engagement, History, Imaginary, Resilience, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Memory, Sugar Cane, Women
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Anthropocene River: Public Opening Anthropocene River Campus
A public program from November 10–16th, 2019, with presentations and discussions by the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project partners and the Anthropocene Working Group.
Conversation, Reflection, Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Field Work, Aesthetics, Agency, Architecture, Care, Habits, Imaginary, Life, Local knowledge
- projectSadie Luetmer
Unlearning a territory
Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again.
Reflection, Field Work, Mapping, Topography, Agency, Education, Equality, Ecology
- contributionPeter K. Haff
The Technosphere and the Mississippi River
How has the technosphere come to shape the Mississippi in its current formation? An excurse by geologist Peter K. Haff
Infrastructure, Technosphere, Network, Human-environment relations, Agency
- contributionBrian Holmes
The Watershed in Your Head
Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved.
Mapping, Monitoring, Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Water, Education, Ecology, Pollution, Participatory governance, Colonialism
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.
Experiment, Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Technoscience, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Equality, Agency, Architecture, Big data, Data, Computation, Network, Urbanism, Transportation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future
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Field Station 2 | Toward Ecological Sovereignty
The seminar concludes in Saukenuk. The environmental transformations wrought by settlement have not exterminated Indigenous political and ecological practices, which have persisted and adapted to what Kyle Powys White calls the “post-apocalyptic conditions of the present.”
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Agency, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectMorgan Adamson, Ravi Agarwal, Bruce Braun, Shana M. griffin, Sarah Lewison, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, Grace Treffinger, Geneva Lebouf
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Agency, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Commodities, Capitalism, Violence, Race, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice
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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.
Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
- projectDerek Hoeferlin
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Mapping, Experiment, Case Study, Governance, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Agency, Scale, Speculative
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Field Station 2 | Walking and Learning the Land
The third day of the seminar heads outdoors to explore the landscape on foot and to consider the ways of knowing that such embodied inquiry allows.
Case Study, Storytelling, Deep time, History, Equality, Agency, Landscape, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge infrastructure, Care
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Field Station 2 | Unsettling Anthropocene Landscapes
Opening day of the traveling seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow, which situates the escalating environmental crisis of the Anthropocene Midwest within settler colonial histories and narratives.
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Landscape, Violence, Agriculture, Agency, Climate change, Care, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- projectIvo Louro, Iñigo Sanchez, Daniel Paiva, Margarida Mendes, Brandon Labelle
Seminar: The Sonic Ecology of the Tourist City
This seminar invites participants to reflect on what it means to listen to the Anthropocene by way of a situated case: the touristification of Lisbon.
Sound, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Agency, Tourism
- projectDavide Scarso, Elizabeth Johnson, Rita Natálio
Seminar: Repoliticizing the Anthropocene
Exploring the tensions between the need for “politicizing nature” and the always-impending risk of “naturalizing politics.”
Agency, Environmental Justice, Engagement, Governance
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Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax 2020
The Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax (ACL: Parallax), is an event organised by the Portuguese research center CIUHCT and its project Anthropolands taking place at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, between 6 and 11 January 2020.
Field Work, Sound, Human-environment relations, Agency, Governance
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- contributionGeorge Lewis
Rainbow Family
Composer, musicologist, and improviser George Lewis explores the issues that arise in encounters between machine listeners and their biological counterparts.
Reflection, Sound, Agency, Technosphere
- contributionElizabeth Lara
Interspecies Accomplices: Cultivating Conspiracy at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
What does the practice of gardening enclose about human-plant relations? A field report on the imperial history of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Agency, History
- contributionPatricia Piccinni, Claudia Vickers
Panel talk beween Patricia Piccinini and Claudia Vickers
Artist Patricia Piccinini and synthetic biologist Claudia Vickers discuss novel forms of life and science’s role in shaping conceptions and imaginations of the world.
Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Agency
- contributionBernd M. Scherer, Akeel Bilgrami
Closing Discussion with Akeel Bilgrami and Bernd Scherer
In this closing discussion, Akeel Bilgrami and Bernd Scherer debate their mutual arguments and, together with the audience, weigh in on the presented lectures.
Disciplinarity, Agency, Complexity, Anthropos
- contributionBernd M. Scherer
The Naturalization of Humans in the Anthropocene
Bernd Scherer discusses how technology shapes human society, calling attention to how algorithmic software modifies our view of the world.
Agency, Knowledge transformation, Disciplinarity
- contributionKei Kreutler
The Byzantine Generalization Problem: Subtle Strategy in the Context of Blockchain Governance
Researcher Kei Kreutler analyzes the decentralized, consensus-driven decision processes implemented in blockchain technologies.
Reflection, Capitalism, Agency, Technosphere
- contributionKaren Litfin
Anthropocene Lecture - Karen Litfin
Rather than viewing issues such as climate change and mass extinction as happening “out there,” what happens when we experience them emotionally and somatically as also happening “in here?”
Anthropos, Human-environment relations, Agency
- projectOrit Halpern, Anna Echterhölter, Sophia Roosth, Gerald Nestler, Johnny Golding, Alexander R. Galloway, Julian Oliver, Morehshin Allahyari, Sarah Sharma, Thomas Feuerstein, Marie-Luise Angerer, Elie Ayache, Felix Stalder, Ubermorgen
Switches
The unleashing of the technosphere is, above all, the result of activating and operating numerous tiny switches. With the unfolding of information theory, cybernetics, and the microscopic power of the point-contact transistor, the year 1948 represents the material and theoretical starting point for a universal language of 0s and 1s. Contributions from theory and art oscillate between diagnostic and speculative accounts of the bit’s role in our present.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Big data, Computation, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Model, Network, Cybernetics, Technosphere, Technoscience, System
- contributionLawrence Abu Hamdan
Contra Diction. Speech Against Itself
What techniques do we use when we navigate between the human voice, governmental law and the concept of justice in the technosphere?
Storytelling, Sound, Technosphere, Agency, Governance, Policy, Imaginary
- projectClapperton C. Mavhunga, Shadreck Chirikure, Gabrielle Hecht, D. A. Masolo, Chaz Maviyane-Davies
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.
Reflection, Storytelling, Agency, Representation, Language, Colonialism
- projectJeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang, Emily Eliza Scott, Heather Davis
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.
Teaching, Engagement, Sensing, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Epistemology, Embodiment
- contributionChristoph Eggersglüß, Ryan Griffis, Lisa Gutermuth, Jesse Peterson, Daniel Wolter, Eva Castringius
Decolonize With
How can we decolonize the disembodied truth-claims of picture making? Instructions for analyzing images using five senses and more.
Reflection, Teaching, Aesthetics, Agency, glossary, Colonialism
- contributionKarin Knorr-Cetina
Financial Markets and the Technospheres they constitute
When the ticker was replaced by the monitor. A lecture on the information architecture of the global financial market.
Case Study, Reflection, Economy, Agency, System, Data, Epistemology
- projectBrian Holmes, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Claire Pentecost, Ryan Griffis
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.
Teaching, Conversation, Case Study, Governance, Urbanism, Human-environment relations, System, Technosphere, Economy, Agency, Capitalism
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The Technosphere, Now
How did we end up in this world of technological vertigo? This dilemma was the main theme of The Technosphere, Now, a showcase held on October 2, 2015.
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, Reflection, Agency, Agriculture, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Critical materials, Embodiment, Extraction, Future, Technosphere, History, Imaginary
- contributionElla Ziegler, Jol Thomson
Terraforming
Is the Anthropocene an issue of agency rather than representation? How do we create devices for thinking through direct engagement with materials that indicate the challenges which require our participation?
Agency, Representation, Knowledge production
- contributionIsadora Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
The Rights of Nature
2008 is the year the Rights of Nature were ratified in the Ecuadorian Constitution. In a seminar room at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, a group debates about resource extraction, activism, and the role of indigenous systems of knowledge in the Anthropocene.
Film, Naturecultures, Agency
- contributionMasahiro Terada, Olivier Hamant, Gregor Lax, Dariya Manova, Anna Lillie Svensson
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.
Teaching, Knowledge transformation, Agency, Time
