Keyword: Ocean
- contributionSusan Schuppli, Liz Thomas
Exchange on Melting Narrations
How can we mediate and embed scientific findings into new narrations? And what contingency, what order, will these narrations have?
Conversation, Engagement, Climate change, Deep time, Water, Ocean
- contributionKristine L. DeLong, Mark Williams, Jens Zinke, Neal Cantin, Sophia Roosth
Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction.
Field Work, Conversation, Consensus Building, Engagement, Extraction, Climate change, Ocean
- contributionKat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022.
Teaching, Biosphere, Commodities, Critical materials, Degradation, Education, Future, Human-environment relations, Ocean, Pollution, Sedimentation
- project
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
- event
Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
During Unearthing the Present, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will present the conclusive stratigraphic findings from twelve sites that hold the potential to become a GSSP for the formal demarcation of the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Consensus Building, Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Deep time, Landscape, Ocean, Data, Sedimentation
- contributionJulian Charrière, Nadim Samman
As We Used to Float
Julian Charrière and Nadim Samman take us on a dive into Bikini Atoll to tell the story of the post-atomic ghostlands and the never-to-end heritage of contamination in the blasted reefs.
Field Work, Affect, Degradation, Disaster, Indigenous Rights, Ocean, Radioactivity
- contributionKillian Quigley
Reading the Anthropocene Ocean
How do tropes and images of a changing ocean operate in a larger system of cultural sensemaking? Killian Quigley collects a range of threads to map the disfiguration and deformation of an anthropocenic biosphere that swells below the sea’s surface.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Ecology, Epistemology, Human-environment relations, Adaptation, Ocean, Future, Representation, Water
- contributionKarolina Sobecka, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler
Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks
The following essay and mapping exercise on whales reflects on the natural-cultural history of these creatures whose non-human bodies allow for thinking across different aesthetic and epistemic registers.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Carbon, Capitalism, Embodiment, Violence, Energy, Ocean
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Autonomy, Energy, Evolution, Ocean, Sedimentation
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Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Ocean, Risk
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Engagement, Commodities, Ocean, Scale, Embodied research
- event
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
- project
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
- contributionBriohny Doyle
Dramatizing the Future
How can speculative fiction offer imaginary, narrative, and aesthetic approaches to the Anthropocene? A reflection on this issue.
Scenario, Perception, Ocean
- contributionDavor Vidas
When the Sea Begins to Dominate the Land
What happens to the baselines under the international law of the sea when coastlines are no longer stable?
Conversation, Ocean, Climate change, Infrastructure
- contributionRichard Hindle
Rivers, Coasts, and the Geographical Dimensions of Patent Innovation
Levees and dams form the fluvial geography of the technosphere. Landscape architect Richard Hindle shows how patents have historically catalyzed the establishment of these formations.
Mapping, Ocean, Technosphere, Geo-engineering
- contributionCarola Hein
Port Cities: Nodes in the Global Petroleumscape between Sea and Land
Historian of architecture and urbanism Carola Hein investigates the establishment, transformation, and future of the global petroleumscape.
Mapping, Architecture, Urbanism, Ocean
- contributionJames P. M. Syvitski
Changes in Fluvial Systems, River Sediments and Deltas
Geologist and oceanographer James Syvitski maps how human modification of the world’s hydrological system continues to accelerate, how deltas are starved of sediment due to dam building, and how wetlands are lost and coasts retreat.
Mapping, Metabolism, Ocean, Water
- contributionBirgit Schneider
Telecommunications. A micro history
Media scholar Birgit Schneider takes us into the history of early submarine telegraphy cables, moving through their material construction and the subsequent organic and inorganic entanglements that connect them.
Communicating, Infrastructure, Ocean
- contributionEiko Honda, Toshiaki Hicosaka
Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves
A look into the history of the globalization of knowledge.
Conversation, Knowledge transformation, Aesthetics, Ocean, Water, Language
