Georg N. Schäfer is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) and Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. At MPI-GEA, Georg is responsible for the institute’s collaboration with the Anthropocene Working Group and is an editor of the Anthropocene Curriculum. In his doctoral research, Georg explores the regional agency of Kansas in the human-planetary production dynamics of the Anthropocene. His work reflects on the emergence of industrialized agriculture in Kansas, the worldwide exportation of this agricultural model, and the factors that lock Kansas into this anthropocenic mode of production. Prior to this, Georg was scientific coordinator of the Evidence & Experiment project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and a visiting fellow of the Anthropocene Formations research group of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He also published, together with co-author Sören E. Schuster, Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity (Routledge, 2022).