How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?

A reflection on the contemporary conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine, offering three perspectives on the trauma of war and possibilities for repair.

Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present.

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.

How can one negotiate between extraction, decontextualization, and the outright exploitation that could cause unequal flows of knowledge?

How a “blues epistemology” can establish the critical historical consciousness crucial for determining more just futures in the Anthropocene.

From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction.

How does the legacy of settler colonialism affect and seep into the present? A reflection at Blackhawk Park.

What does it mean to be “riverine”? A collage by artist, writer, and activist Shanai Matteson

Acknowledging the historical legacy of violence and the ongoing struggle resulting from colonialism is essential before research work begins in the Mississippi River region.

Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.

The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences.

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.

Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.

The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.

The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.

A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.

What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.

Ethnographer S. Løchlann Jain poetically examines how commodities and violence sustain one another in the technosphere.

Data, evidence, truth—these grades of the factual form an intricate reference system in which current social and juridical knowledge is established and maintained. How is factual knowledge constituted within and through the technosphere? The evening examines how the concept of legal truth and truth finding is bound to the technical production of certainty.

Within the technosphere, earth becomes energy, people become populations and space becomes sphere. But how to make visible this network of flows coursing through our bodies?

Political and military conflict and their environmental conditions seem to occupy opposite ends of the epistemic spectrum. We need to develop operative concepts able to work across this divide, establishing “field causalities,” a framework that allows us to connect individuals, environments, and artifices.

The Anthropocene compels us to re-think our modes of knowledge production. A statement on the necessity for radically interdisciplinary modes of research.

2009 was the year the United Nations COP15 took place in Copenhagen, infamous for the secret agreement drafted among the G20, the so-called “Danish Text.” In response, the Ambassador and spokesperson for the G77, Lumumba Di-Aping, called a press conference and addressed the plenary accusing the G20 of genocide. With Paul N. Edwards, Adrian Lahoud, and Alejandra Torres Camprubí.