Seminar: Knowing (in) the Anthropocene
Is a different kind of technosphere possible? What forms of knowledge might a different technosphere require and engender? In order to explore such questions, we will take as our point of departure the Aerocene: a nascent, collaborative, speculative vision of the future.
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Prologue
“We see the Anthropocene as a starting point from which one can set off into various exploratory directions instead of a problem that needs to be pinned down and solved.”
Bronislaw Szerszynski on why floating aerosolar sculptures at dawn might help the seminar to imagine exotechnospheres that do not depend on the exploitation of fossil fuels.
- contributionBronislaw Szerszynski
Seminar Reflection: Knowing (in) the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene presents us with a unique set of epistemological challenges. From this vantage point, convener Bronislaw Szerszynski reflects on the discussions and activities of this seminar.
Reflection, Knowledge transformation, Human-environment relations, Epistemology
- contributionSamuel Hertz, Caroline Picard
A Generative Perception of Space
On turning your ear into a transducer and living in the clouds. A talk with composer Samuel Hertz about porous bodies.
Conversation, Perception, Ecology, Aesthetics, Sound
- contributionSamuel Hertz
The Floating Ear
How might sound be used to translate nonhuman intelligences and systems into understandable forms? Speculative visions and imaginative states for the extension of the sonic arts into them realm of the Aerocene.
Sound, Experiment, Perception, Aerocene, Sound
- contributionMasahiro Terada
Floating and Anthropos
When I close my eyes, I do not feel gravity, and hence I am in the world without gravity. If I am in the world without gravity, what I am doing must be floating. One basis for the new ethics in the Anthropocene.
Reflection, Speculative, Anthropos, Aerocene, Aesthetics
- contributionRenzo Taddei
Knowing (in) the Anthropocene
Enlarging the potentiality of the technosphere. Renzo Taddei recatures the seminar’s discussions and endeavors.
Reflection, Aerocene, Speculative
- contributionJonathan Cohrs, Samuel Hertz, Jenni Nurmenniemi, Angela Rawlings, Pablo Suarez, Justin Westgate
Exploring Space
Becoming an embodied researcher requires training.
Experiment, Aerocene, Epistemology, Speculative, Embodied research
- contributionFrancois Bucher
On the Use of the Word Code by the Kogi Translator
For the Kogi in northern Colombia, talk of the Anthropocene and the technosphere it not news. For centuries, they have been living in a hyperdimensional ecology that needs constant maintenance to avoid apocalypse for the entire planet.
Naturecultures, Epistemology, Local knowledge, Ritual
- contributionMax Symuleski
Sensing/Knowing
How can we move out of our habitual mode of engaging with space? A field guide for taking a walk through out senses.
Sensing, Field Work, Naturecultures, Engagement
- contributionNavjot Altaf Mohamedi
Bastar Diary
A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.
Reflection, Mining, Local knowledge, Naturecultures, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Indigenous Rights
