Seminar: Geo-Politics
With respect to human rights work, political and military conflict and its 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.
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Prologue
Is there still something by which to measure what remains untouched by humans? How is the ambiguity of calculus being mobilized in different conflicts by different actors? What roles do complexity and scale play? Adrian Lahoud and Nabil Ahmed scrutinize the shift of global frontiers. What sort of new alliances are required in the Anthropocene?
Résumé
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Seminar Report: Geo-Politics
A reflection on the educational experiments and epistemological perspectives of the seminar on geo-politics.
Reflection, Teaching, Experiment
- contributionOwen Gaffney, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Emily Klancher Merchant
Anthropocene Reinsurance Corporation (ANTHRO:RE*)
Anthropocene Reinsurance Corporation Investors’ Prospectus: Monetizing tomorrow’s risks ‒ today
Storytelling, Scale, Economy, Water, Climate change, Calculation, Speculative
- contributionIsadora Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
Sharing Surveillance Data
1964 is the year the first geostationary satellite was launched into Earth’s orbit. A conversation about the life, history, and politics of geostationary satellites and the sharing of surveillance data, with Anna Åberg and Johan Gärdebo.
Film, Sensing, Data
- contributionJohan Gärdebo, Agata Marzecova, Hanna Vikström
Orbital Geopolitics
A conceptualization of the human‒nature‒technology nexus needs to examine the uneven geographies and power geometries of the Anthropocene epoch. Satellites are a case in point.
Sensing, Complexity, Evolution, History, Scale, Waste, Speculative
- contributionIsadora Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
The Danish Text
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.
Film, Equality, Ethics, Violence, Climate change, Governance
- 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
Contributors
Participants
Anna Åberg
Maria Jose De Abreu
Hugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida
Ravi Baghel
Meghan Bailey
Stephan Barthel
Shagufta Bhangu
Chirag Dhara
Maria Paula Diogo
Melissa Dubbin
Sasha Engelmann
Tom Fox
Owen Gaffney
Gyorgyi Galik
Fran Gallardo
Florian Goldmann
Johan Gärdebo
Kathrin Keil
Jens Kirstein
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Roberto Lalli
Agata Marzecova
Emily Klancher Merchant
Sara Nelson
Matteo Pasquinelli
Andrea Pavoni
Prajal Pradhan
Hugo Reinert
Melanie Sehgal
Ashkan Sepahvand
Ana Simões
Max Stocklosa
Jol Thomson
Daniel Wolter
