Method: Intervention
- projectChristoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, Anna Echterhölter, Nigel Clark, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Karolina Sobecka, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler, Kat Austen, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke, Victor Galaz, Simon Turner, Susan Schuppli, Liz Thomas, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Evidence Ensembles Publication
Conversation, Archiving, Sensing, Intervention, Consensus, Critical materials, Deep time, Knowledge infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Complexity
- projectDavide Scarso
Anthropocene Forum 2021
Held in June in Foz Côa, June 2021, with the purpose of discussing the need for an EU-inclusive agenda to address the challenges of a rapidly changing planet
Teaching, Consensus Building, Engagement, Intervention, Disaster, Sustainability, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Scale
- projectDavide Scarso
Observatory for the Anthropocene
An initiative that explores the entangled histories of a multiplicity of Anthropocene narratives.
Storytelling, Intervention, Engagement, Experiment, History, Scale, Topography, Economy, Policy, Local knowledge
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Anthropocene Campus Latin America
Taking place in 2024, Anthropocene Campus Latin America event will create an experiential space for collective change, learning, and creation.
Experiment, Storytelling, Engagement, Intervention, Network, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Local knowledge
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives.
Engagement, Communicating, Teaching, Sensing, Intervention, Cosmologies, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- projectRavi Agarwal
Dialogues: State of Nature 2022
A three-day conference bringing together perspectives and frameworks representative of current contemporary thought in ecopoetics, habitat conservation, and social justice.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Climate change, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity
- project
Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground
This travelling exhibition, co-produced by the ZKM, Karlsruhe and Goethe-Institut Mumbai, invites visitors to engage with the critical situation of our planet.
Engagement, Intervention, Experiment, Conversation, Climate change, Local knowledge, Species
- projectRavi Agarwal
Anthropocene Mumbai 2018–
Since 2018, the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, has focused on the key questions surrounding ecology.
Storytelling, Intervention, Engagement, Modeling, Conversation, Climate change, Ecology, Policy, Environmental Justice, Species, Human-environment relations
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CARBON—Science Gallery Bengaluru
Science Gallery Bengaluru’s next exhibition-season will critically explore carbon in its diverse forms and tackle the challenges of the Anthropocene head-on.
Engagement, Conversation, Experiment, Intervention, Field Study, Carbon
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Onboarding & Exchange—Anthropocene Commons
Join us online for an exchange on projects, upcoming events, and ways to engage with the Anthropocene Commons network.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Network, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Complexity, Scale, Future
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
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“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- projectArmin Linke, Giulia Bruno, Linda van Deursen
Earth Indices
A project by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Field Work, Conversation, Data, Holocene, Media, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Landscape
- event
CARBON Summer School, Science Gallery Bengaluru
Science Gallery Bengaluru is hosting a residential summer school exploring the role of carbon in the Anthropocene.
Teaching, Field Study, Experiment, Intervention, Carbon, Urbanism
- event
Earth Indices
An exhibition by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Archiving, Intervention, Field Work, Data, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Holocene, Sedimentation
- contributionJulian Charrière
Weight of Shadows
The artist Julian Charrière artificially remodels a biogeochemical cycle and casts it into a performance of reverse extraction: carbon molecules are captured from the air and turned into diamonds which are then “wastefully” cast into a glacier.
Intervention, Aesthetics, Carbon, Commodities, Deep time, Extraction, Technoscience
- contributionJulia Adeney Thomas
Modern Political Hopes as Immaterial Markers of the Anthropocene
Constellating three documents that mark a story of changing hopes for a better future, historian Julia Adeney Thomas advocates to recognize the immaterial power of ideas that gave birth to the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Reflection, Capitalism, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Future, Ethics, Imaginary, Modernity, History
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Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation
Book launch of a new publication edited by Benek Çinçik and Tiago Torres-Campos that explores how discursive and material conditions around the Anthropocene might transform the way we think about representation.
Storytelling, Intervention, Representation
- contributionRavi Agarwal
The Art of Climate Emergency
For the third keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference, art historian and cultural critic TJ Demos reflects on the art of climate emergency.
Reflection, Intervention, Engagement, Extraction, Race, Climate change, Migration, Environmental Justice, Capitalism
- contributionThe Mont Pelerin Rewrite
Rewriting Climate Politics
How are the relationships between state, market, natural environments, and citizens understood? And how does this create or foreclose political and ethical agency?
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Case Study, Intervention, Modeling, Governance, Participatory governance, History, Policy, Future, Climate change, Economy
- contributionAstrida Neimanis
How to Talk About the Weather
Astrida Neimanis describes how building, maintaining and repairing social infrastructures are essential aspects of climate change mitigation.Communicating, Conversation, Intervention, Reflection, Affect, Care, Climate change
- contributionMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem
Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment.
Intervention, Sensing, Ecology, Local knowledge, Biodiversity
- contributionJeffrey Treffinger, John Koeferl
Uncalculated Risk
A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Water, Engineering, Environmental Justice, Risk, Local knowledge, Disaster
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows.
Engagement, Intervention, Field Work, Teaching, Extraction, Commodities, Complexity, Slavery, Capitalism, Habits, History, Infrastructure
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Intervention, Aesthetics, Colonialism
- Field Notebsteininger
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Affect, Capitalism, Carbon, Disaster, Education, Ethics, Habits, Slavery, Colonialism, Toxics, Whiteness, undead
- Field Notebsteininger
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Teaching, Intervention, Commodities, Economy, Perception, Industrialization, Ritual, Archives
- Field Notes.kanouse
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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
- Field Noteayse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Teaching, Intervention, Conversation, Anthropology, Anthropos, Capitalism, Commodities, Complexity, Deep time, Energy, Mining, Scale, Extraction, Oil, 2019, Geo-ecologies, Time
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Film, Agriculture, Autonomy, Embodiment, Equality, History, Landscape, Life, Scenario, Race, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Extraction
- Field Noteunderhil
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Engagement, Carbon, Commodities, Complexity, Energy, River journey, Embodied research, refinery, Catalysis
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
- contributionTemporary continent., Aaron Richmond
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice.
Conversation, Case Study, Intervention, Plantation, Slavery, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Inequality
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Mapping, Intervention, Conversation, Settler Colonialism
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Biodiversity, Contingency, Human-environment relations, Cement, Fieldstation
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Field Station 3 | River Blessing
A ceremony with the Native Women’s Care Circle celebrating the connectivity and life of the river.
Intervention
- contribution
In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes?
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Study, Field Work, Teaching, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Sensing
- contributionSarah Lewison, Andrew Yang
Reshaping the Shape
Intervention, Storytelling, Economy, Landscape, Human-animal relations, Water, Aesthetics
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Jenny Kendler
Lounging Through the Flood
Intervention, Experiment, Water, Flood, Aesthetics, Imaginary
- projectJoe Underhill, Roopali Phadke, Bruce Braun, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Lewison, Matthew Fluharty, Andrew Yang, Alya Ansari
Project Launch Minneapolis
Field Study, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Water, Infrastructure, Engineering, Human-environment relations, Ecology, Climate change, Local knowledge, History, Biodiversity
- projectJared Richardson, Abbéy Odunlami, Maya Kóvskaya, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Montana Torrey, Hannah Schaedler, Ellie Irons
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
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.
Field Study, Field Work, Intervention, Storytelling, Commodities, Capitalism, Spatial, History, Economy, Embodiment, Knowledge infrastructure, Race, Violence, Plantation, Environmental Justice
- projectMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
This Is Not About Survival
This project documents an embodied inhabitation of the Southern Illinois canebrake habitat that is quickly disappearing from the landscape.
Intervention, Local knowledge, Ecology, Biodiversity
- project
Reshaping the Shape
Public enemy or mascot of a global commons? Tracing the postnatural expansion of the Asian Carp.
Storytelling, Intervention, Human-animal relations, Economy, History, Commodities
- projectJeremy Bolen, Jenny Kendler
Lounging through the Flood
A sculptural comment on our apathetic frivolity in the face of climate catastrophe.
Intervention, Experiment, Flood, History, Disaster, Epistemology, Migration, Imaginary
- 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
- projectMorgan Adamson, Bruce Braun, Roopali Phadke
Contesting the De-industrial Futures of the Upper Mississippi
A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature.
Case Study, Intervention, Field Study, Urbanism, Water, Engineering, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Industrialization
- contributionPaul N. Edwards, Gabrielle Hecht
Taking on the Technosphere: A Kitchen Debate
Science and technology historians Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards ask whether the concept of the technosphere is a truly useful tool, simple silverware, or merely a barren gadget for understanding the current and future condition of planet Earth.
Conversation, Intervention, Technosphere
- contributionAxel Kleidon
How the Technosphere Can Make the Earth More Active
Could it be said that with the development of the technosphere, the Earth is currently undergoing a shift to a state of greater activity?
Engagement, Intervention, Technosphere, Energy
- contributionMalin Ah-King, Eva Hayward
Toxic Sexes: Perverting Pollution and Queering Hormone Disruption
Gender studies scholars Malin Ah-King and Eva Hayward question the essentialist and heteronormative assumptions that frame discourses on endocrine disruptors.
Intervention, Toxicity, Evolution
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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
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Field Trips
How can we know about the Anthropocene? In a series of field trips and workshops, the ACM18 took the concept into the field.
Intervention, Field Work, Knowledge transformation, Education
- projectYoneda Lemma, Josh Berson, Benjamin Bratton, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Orit Halpern, Giuseppe Longo, Inigo Wilkins, Seth Bullock, Helena Shomar, Elena Esposito, Luis Campos, Alexander R. Galloway, Sascha Pohflepp
Chance
Human culture has been a culture of chance all along. Around 1948, a new configuration of chance practices becomes operative, and high-quality (pseudo-)random numbers have become indispensable for simulating the design of nuclear weapons, calculating the future of human populations, and modeling the climate. How do we recognize the differences or similarities of these two forms of employing chance tools for making predictions?
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Contingency, Disaster, Games, Knowledge transformation, Resilience, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technosphere
- projectAnna Echterhölter, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Benjamin Bratton, Vera Tollmann, Gerald Nestler, Patricia Reed, Boaz Levin, Victoria Ivanova
Tokens
With the establishment of universal standards around 1948, the world is transformed into a technocratic space of transactions. Theoretical and artistic contributions contour the technical standards of an infinitely circulating present.
Conversation, Engagement, Storytelling, Intervention, Calculation, Commodities, Data, Economy, Infrastructure, Model, Network, Policy, Technosphere
- projectJens Soentgen, Alexander Ilichevsky, Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger, Dieter Hiller, Oxana Timofeeva, Stephanie LeMenager
Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons plunges into the complexities and contradictions of the oil era and thereby into the molecular basis of the technosphere. Interweaving film scenes with a variety of visual and research materials, as well as the “sounds of oil,” the session explores the speculative cultural genre termed “petro noir,” examining the geopolitical-industrial complex that drives petrochemistry and, by consequence, mobility, consumption, waste and adventure.
Conversation, Engagement, Film, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Sound, Carbon, Commodities, Critical materials, Energy, Extraction, Metabolism, Technosphere, Thermodynamics, Transportation, Waste, Scenario
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- 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
- contributionMatthijs Kouw
The Risk Equipment Deserves More Credit: Modeling, Epistemic Opacity, and Immersion
Through examining the way hydraulic engineers employ and tinker with computational models for managing water-related risks, science and technology scholar Matthijs Kouw argues for a more reflected stand against such modeling practice.
Reflection, Intervention, Risk, Model
- contributionEle Carpenter, Hanna Husberg, Laura McLean, Ayesha Hameed
The Free Sea
Four artists and scholars confront the catastrophe of global warming as the rising sea literally dissolves the Maldives, and the lives that are lived upon them.
Film, Intervention, Water, Climate change
- contributionSvenja Schüffler
KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application
An algorithmic intermediation between the next mega-earthquake and you: instructions for turning risk into facing up to your danger.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Computation, Complexity, System, Disaster, Big data, Care, Seismic
- projectcontinent., Adania Shibli, Bernard Geoghegan, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Alice Cannava, Lionel Ruffel
Knowledge × Sharing
Communicating, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Consensus, Education, Equality, Knowledge transformation, Wisdom, Adaptation, Care, Aesthetics
- projectJohn Tresch, Jeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang, Sasha Engelmann, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Alex Martinis Roe, Melanie Sehgal, Roman Brinzanik, Deborah Haaksman, Rebekka Ladewig, Hendrik Weber
Wisdom Techniques
The interlacing between knowledge and the technosphere has a very subtle yet decisive dimension: the collectively ingrained practices and routines that are the preconditions for adequately responding to the non-human dynamics of a world in transition. What are the regimes of sense training, ascetic modes of inquiry, and techniques of mental cultivation that let us learn and understand something? What might be needed to reshape and modify these in light of the predicament of the Anthropocene?
Communicating, Conversation, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Aerocene, Adaptation, Anthropos, Care, Consensus, Cosmologies, Disciplinarity, Embodiment, Habits, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Scale, Scenario, Wisdom
- projectLawrence Abu Hamdan, Keith Breckenridge, Brian Holmes, Susan Schuppli, Melanie Gilligan
Truth Measures
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.
Conversation, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Complexity, Computation, Ethics, Governance, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Representation, Model, Scale, Environmental Justice, Waste, Violence
- projectRana Dasgupta, S. Løchlann Jain, Clapperton C. Mavhunga, Matteo Pasquinelli, Lucy Suchman
Trauma: The Language of the Technosphere
How is the technosphere inscribed into individual human bodies? How are they restructured along a complex machinery of instruments, techniques, simulations?
Communicating, Engagement, Intervention, Monitoring, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Care, Anthropos, Anthropology, Cosmologies, Deep time, Embodiment, Education, Calculation, Future, Imaginary, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Technosphere
- projectLino Camprubí, Zachary Caple, Gregory T. Cushman, Heather Davis, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Arno Rosemarin, Frank Uekötter, Katrina Schwartz
Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere
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?
Communicating, Intervention, Conversation, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Anthropos, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Complexity, Commodities, Embodiment, Energy, Landscape, Mining, Waste, Violence, Technosphere
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jürgen Renn, Erich Hörl, Birgit Schneider
Triggers: Introducing the Technosphere
What triggered the technosphere? This lightning-round presents a visual and aural panorama of events that catalyzed the rise of our contemporary technical worlds.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, History, Technosphere, Anthropos, Carbon, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Critical materials, Cybernetics, Data, Settler Colonialism, Disaster, Contingency, Extraction, Pollution, Network
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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
