The global environmental crisis calls for increased cooperation in a time when past and present injustices have never been more visible, giving rise to often unheard voices. But how can different people with distinct concerns and from a multiplicity of locations respond in a coordinated way? Can there be a consensus on what “the Anthropocene” is? And on the procedures, mechanisms, and institutions that caused it? For this Course, Adania Shibli and Simon Turner confer between cultural studies and geology on the relevance of scientific consensus, considering the example of the chronostratigraphic scale, which has resulted from hundreds of years of scientific refinement and settling of dissent but sits within a knowledge system that has silenced other epistemologies. With insights from anthropology and artistic practice, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk trace the undercurrents of socio-territorial relations along the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, ​​where postcolonial identities navigate continued marginalization caused by land development schemes and resource extraction. Lastly, activist and new-media practitioner John Kim proposes mutual aid and solidarity as an act of resistance to the Anthropocene, outlining his experience of such practices following failures of governance along the Mississippi, and the central role consensus-based decision making has played in enacting them.