The leading results seemed to lack historical and cultural nuance, political, sociological, and anthropological depth and intellectual creativity, and even the scientific images tended to be iconographic cartoons of complexities rather than images of a new age of connectedness, intersection, and coevolution rooted in the present and its histories. The most astounding feature of the search, however, was the far-reaching absence of the originator and receiver her- and himself: Anthropos.

In light of this, the intention of the seminar was to produce—along the lines of four guiding themes: “Terra Forming,” ”Anthropos,” “The Nonhuman,” and “Times: Before and After”—a bundle of new imaginations of the Anthropocene that address its dimensions more convincingly and provide critical reflexivity on existing interpretations. This required that our investigations strive for a particular punctum that can pique interest and hold attention in the realm of digital memes and viral transmissions. We hoped, along with accompanying short texts, to open up the deeper foundations of the Anthropocene and to release more creativity about potential alternative futures than were found in our real-world case study.