- Jeremy Bolen
- Lorraine Daston
- Evan Graham
- Ryan Griffis
- Brian Holmes
- Jenny Magnus
- Caroline Picard
- Oliver Sann
- Julia Sharpe
- Shawn Michelle Smith
- Ellie Tse
- Guanyu Xu
- Andrew Yang
- Viviana de la Rosa
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago publishes occasional pamphlets delving into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem. Written or coordinated by group members and affiliates, each pamphlet stands alone as a singular and situated investigation of earth-system conditions, as they are experienced in the here and now. Who are we? Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? The great cosmic questions are also local, urban, rural, personal, political, and artistic. The pamphlets draw upon the insights of our close collaborators, the support of the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the inspiration of the Anthropocene Curriculum network.
Walkaboutit: BP Whiting Refinery. Video still courtesy Ryan Griffis
- contributionKatrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol
A Curriculum for the Anthropocene
Scale, metabolism, sensing, agency—this publication introduces some of the concepts essential to the interdisciplinary debate around the Anthropocene.
Teaching, Deep time, glossary
- contributionAndrew Yang
Time (and time again)
How does the concept of the Anthropocene help to re-evaluate human and non-human agency across sub-disciplines of history?
Conversation, Deep time, History, Time
- contributionCaroline Picard
Bound with Bright Beautiful Things
A consideration of human exceptionalism that draws inspiration from Panchatantra, the famous collection of animal fables.
Storytelling, Deep time, Human-animal relations, Cosmologies, Wisdom
- contributionBrian Holmes
Driving the Golden Spike—The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space
This micro-publication looks at the city of Chicago as a site of origin for materials, particles, and social relations that define the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene.
Field Study, Reflection, Deep time, Spatial, Aesthetics, Technosphere, Metabolism, Urban
- contributionEvan Graham, Jenny Magnus, Oliver Sann, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, Guanyu Xu, Viviana de la Rosa
In Search of Freedom in the Anthropocene
The arrival of the Anthropocene coincides with the era of political demands for “universal freedom,” as defined by Western philosophers. But whose freedom is this?
Conversation, Teaching, Reflection, Deep time, Modernity, Environmental Justice
- contributionRyan Griffis
A Great Green Desert
Ryan Griffis’ pamphlet in the Deep Time Chicago series traces the networks, economies, and monochrome landscapes of US agribusiness.
Case Study, Field Work, Reflection, Deep time, Agriculture, Plantation
