The concept of the technosphere is the basis of the Anthropocene Campus. Yet, have we interrogated this concept enough in order to make it a foundation for a new pedagogical curriculum? To offer one productive critique, we decided, as part of the techno-metabolisms seminar, to map the “knowledge metabolism” that went into producing this paper. That is, we have taken Peter Haff’s academic paper entitled “Technology as a Geological Phenomenon: Implications for human well-being,” in which he introduces the concept of the technosphere, and we have mapped the academic references he uses to compile the paper geographically by individual and institution. We have then also mapped the citations of his paper to indicate the circulation of this concept through academic networks. We have also collected data on the gendered aspects of the individuals involved in each paper. By doing this, we wish to trouble the routes and journeys of knowledge that went into creating the idea of the technosphere—who participated in producing it, and who did not? Given that this concept came out of a predominantly global north and male knowledge production base, for whom is this valid or not valid? Who does this concept speak for and/or potentially silence?

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