- ABGCCABGCC
Anthrobiogeochemical Cycles
Ian Fairchild, Alejandro Cearreta, Colin Summerhayes, Agnieszka Gałuszka, Michael Wagreich
The Anthropocene Signal Amidst the Noise
Christoph Rosol
A Mid-Twentieth Century Start Date for Anthropocene Geology
Giulia Rispoli
The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene
Maximilian Lau, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Sybille Neumeyer
Troubling Sedimentations
Julian Charrière
Weight of Shadows
Benjamin Johnson
Closed Chemical Cycles
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Biotic Change
Mark Williams, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jens Zinke, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kristine L. DeLong
Biological and Paleontological Signatures of the Anthropocene
Mark Williams, Allison Stegner, Matthew C. Wilson, Stephen Himson
Mud, Microfossils, and the Anthropocene
Luke Keogh
Ephemeral Biosphere
Kat Austen, Nigel Clark, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke
Conversations Beyond the Human
Killian Quigley
Reading the Anthropocene Ocean
Nina Canell and Robin Watkins
Silurian Harvest
Matthew C. Wilson
Some Recovered Taxonomic Fragments
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Combustion
Yongming Han, J.R. McNeill, Neil L. Rose, Simon Turner
Combustion Products as Markers for the Anthropocene
Matthew C. Wilson
Geological Evidences
Nigel Clark
Anthropogenic Fire as the Hinge between Earth System and Strata
Riddhima Puri
The Breathable Materiality of Combustion
Benjamin Steininger
Molecular Mobilization
Karolina Sobecka, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler
Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks
- CECE
Critical Environments
Agnieszka Gałuszka, Neil L. Rose, Andy Cundy, Michael Wagreich, Yongming Han, Simon Turner, William Shotyk
Anthropogenic Threats to Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
Simon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
Xandra van der Eijk
Visualizing the Vibrant Materiality of Place
Brian Holmes, Jeremy Bolen
Hourglass River
Sebastián Ureta
Tailings and the Onset of a Chilean Anthropocene
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Sebastiano Trevisani
The Critical Environment of the Venice Lagoon
Eva Horn
The Case of Air
Susan Schuppli, Liz Thomas
Exchange on Melting Narrations
- NM&TFNM&TF
Novel Materials and Technofossils
Jan Zalasiewicz, Peter K. Haff, Matt Edgeworth, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Daniel Richter
The Technofossil Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet
Kat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
Franz Mauelshagen
Historical Assessment of the “Anthropogenic” Factor
Anna Echterhölter
Human-Mineral Classification
Cristián Simonetti, Matt Edgeworth
Concrete: A Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene
Katrin Hornek, Kira Lappé
Latent Soils
Andrea Westermann
Against the Aestheticization of Technofossils
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Nuclear Anthropocene
Andy Cundy, Colin Waters, Irka Hajdas, Yoshiki Saito
Radioactive Fallout as a Marker for the Anthropocene
Andy Cundy, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Irka Hajdas, Susan Schuppli, Colin Waters
Fingerprints of the Nuclear Age
Angela N. H. Creager
The Radioactive Footprint of the Anthropocene
Néstor Herran
Monitoring the Nuclear Anthropocene
Xavier Roqué
Small Agency in the Nuclear Anthropocene
Kate Brown
The Skeletal Remains of the Nuclear Anthropocene
Andy Cundy, Brian Holmes
Exchange on the Half Life of the Nuclear Age
Julian Charrière, Nadim Samman
As We Used to Float
Maria Rentetzi
The Japanese Art of Bowing and the Nuclear Anthropocene
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Strata, Signals, Symptoms
Jürgen Renn, Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson
Traces and Symptoms
Marcia Bjornerud
Ironies of the Anthropocene
Lesley J. F. Green, Francine M.G. McCarthy
Exchange on Geo-Inheritance
Adam Bobbette
A Javanese Anthropocene?
Julia Adeney Thomas
Modern Political Hopes as Immaterial Markers of the Anthropocene
Adam Wickberg
Anthropogenic Markers as Environing Media
Christoph Rosol
When the Signal Disappears in the Noise
Oliver Sann, Beate Geissler
Fragments from the White Angst Cli-Fi Read-Along
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