Keyword: Agriculture
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TALK: Plantationocene with Maan Barua
What might it mean to articulate environmental transformations as outcomes of a Plantationocene?
Agriculture, Capitalism, Anthropos, Agency, Extraction
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2021
Conversations on a multispecies approach to pandemics, the Anthropocene concept, and the visualization of knowledge.
Conversation, Reflection, Species, Human-animal relations, Agriculture, Anthropos, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2020
Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change.
Conversation, Reflection, Climate change, Ecology, Agriculture, Species, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- contributionFranz Mauelshagen
Historical Assessment of the “Anthropogenic” Factor
Starting from a review of the Orbis Spike hypothesis, this essay by the Anthropocene historian Franz Mauelshagen compares the early modern “Agrarian Acceleration” during the Little Ice Age with the material world of the twentieth century.
Modeling, Reflection, Agriculture, Agency, Human-environment relations, Metabolism, Model, History, Holocene
- contributionSarah Lewison, Lynn Peemoeller, Andrew Yang
Encountering Para-Human Species
Non-human species sometimes mediate societal processes of marginalization, but they can also play a role in solidarity. What might we learn from other species?
Communicating, Human-animal relations, Affect, Agriculture, Biodiversity
- contributionMarlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim
Fourteen Slices of Time
For the assisted readymade Fourteen Slices of Time (2020) fourteen custom-printed postcards—souvenirs that trigger memories of Earth—are displayed on a simple stand that fits inside of an archetypal American mailbox.
Field Work, Reflection, Space travel, Agriculture, Ecology
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Saundi McClain-Kloeckener
Seed of Knowledge
An Interview with indigenous leader Saundi McClain-Kloeckner.
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Care, Knowledge transformation
- contributionTemporary continent.
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest.
Field Work, Conversation, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Economy, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Future, Colonialism, Whiteness
- contributionEllie Irons
Re-patterning with Kudzu: Reckoning in Search of Regeneration
Artist Ellie Irons documents her travels to Natchez, Mississippi, to meet the American kudzu plant on the contested terrain it has colonized.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- contributionRavi Agarwal, Paulina Lopez, Huiying Ng, Michelle Lai
Social Witnessing
Two case studies focus on two very different landscapes, and attempt to account for the changing relationships that make them over time.
Case Study, Mapping, Film, Field Study, Ecology, Capitalism, Agriculture
- contributionGilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Denise Frazier, Rebecca Snedeker, Spółdzielnia Krzak / Krzak Collective, Jason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
Knowing Together
How can we build communities that share knowledge about climate issues, both locally and at the planetary-scale?
Case Study, Conversation, Agriculture, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Race
- contributionFritz Habekuß
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?
Field Study, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Agriculture, Anthropos, Commodities, Environmental Justice, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Toxicity
- contributionTahani Nadim
Data Flow
On data provenance: what does it mean to think about data through maize and to think about maize through data?
Storytelling, Field Work, Conversation, Agriculture, Ecology, Data, Human-environment relations
- contributionNikos Katsikis
The Mississippi Basin: An Operational Landscape
Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin.
Mapping, Case Study, Modeling, Agriculture, Commodities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Urbanism
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Edible Encounters
Exploring niches of ecological autonomy through a series of food encounters.
Field Work, Engagement, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Food
- projectCorinne Teed
Amongst Relatives
We are permeable beings and perpetually affected by our changing ecosystems. This field guide and accompanying exercises guide us into an embodied present.
Conversation, Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights
- projectHeather Parrish, Sam Muñoz
Shaped by Rivers
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between people, rivers, and the landscape, focusing on the unique setting of the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi region.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Naturecultures
- contributionPatrick Roberts, Robert N. Spengler, Ricardo Fernandes
IsoMaize and The Ancient Dispersal of Maize
How far back dates the cultivation of Maize and how did the practice of maize farming shape the sociopolitical developments in the Mississippi River region?
Human-environment relations, Agriculture, History
- contributionNatalie Mueller
In Search of Lost Crops Where the Buffalo Roam
A reflection by archaeologist and ethnobotanist Natalie G. Mueller on how sharing meal of long lost plants transformed her research perspective.
Case Study, Experiment, Reflection, Human-animal relations, Adaptation, Biodiversity, Agriculture
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Museu da Luz, Luz Mourão, Portugal
Field Study, Environmental Justice, Migration, Agriculture
- Field Noteipgray
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Arabi, Louisiana, USA
Agriculture, Commodities, Plantation, Extraction
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Film, Agriculture, Autonomy, Embodiment, Equality, History, Landscape, Life, Scenario, Race, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Extraction
- Field Notebsteininger
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Commodities, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Industrialization, Geochemistry, River journey, Catalysis, Time
- contributionHeather I. Sullivan
The Dark Green in the Anthropocene: Industrial agriculture and plant blindness along the Mississippi
Seen from above, the banks of the Mississippi appear to be flanked by rich expanses of plant life. Yet this verdant appearance is deceptive as this essay on the “dark green” explores.
Field Study, Agriculture, Human-environment relations, Species, Climate change
- contributionTemporary continent., Jamie Allen
Faith, Family, Farming
Tracing the role folklore has played—and continues to play—in the quantification and gridification of American landscapes, and the harvesting of worth of all kinds
Field Work, Storytelling, Conversation, Agriculture, Capitalism, History, System
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Bill Iseminger, Katie Englemeyer, Susan Bostwick, Jennifer McBride, Rob Connoley, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller
Lost Crops Conversation
A conversation on the evolution of agriculture and foodways, and how that has affected representations of landscape, cuisine—and a cracker box.
Conversation, Agriculture, Representation, Landscape, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Engagement, Agriculture, Capitalism, Commodities
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Storytelling, Agriculture, Degradation, Landscape, Mechanosphere, Technosphere, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Imaginary, Engagement, Agriculture
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Gayle Fritz
The Interpretive Garden at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
A project output by Postnatural Landscapes Project with an animation.
Film, Field Study, Storytelling, Aesthetics, Agriculture, Anthropology, Deep time, Engagement, Food
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Bush Landing, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Temporary Continent
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Edible Matters along the Mississippi
How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River.
Field Study, Case Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Conversation, Engagement, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Landscape
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Lower Rice Lake, Minnesota, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Rice, Headwaters
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Postnatural Landscapes
Ancient agricultural practices in the American Bottom were significant in the shaping of the landscapes and foodscapes that exist today.
Field Work, Case Study, Landscape, Deep time, History, Anthropology, Agriculture, Evolution, Food
- projectEllie Irons
Re-Patterning with Kudzu
The introduction of Kudzu into the American South has a storied history connecting rhetoric around migration and race with ecology.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- projectAxel Kleidon, Maik Renner, Annu Panwar
How did human activity alter the Mississippi Basin?
As an effect of human intervention, the former prairie of the Mississippi region has been turned into agricultural farmland. But what are the energy-based effects of land use changes?
Reflection, Case Study, Agriculture, Energy, Human-environment relations, Climate change, Metabolism
- contributionMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
This Is Not About Survival (It’s About Bringing Your Coracle)
A deep breath in deep time: a call for reinhabiting the Mississippi canebrake.
Reflection, Storytelling, Landscape, Agriculture, Water, Memory
- projectNicole Boivin, Ricardo Fernandes, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller, Patrick Roberts, Robert N. Spengler
The Early Rise of North America's Dominant Crop
How have early agricultural practices shaped and altered the environment of the Mississippi? This research project turns to the cultivation of maize to tackle this question.
Field Study, Case Study, Agriculture, Ecology, Landscape, History
- projectRobert N. Spengler, Natalie Mueller
Ancient Bison Herds of the American Midwest and the Domestication of the Lost Crops
How did the ancestors of early agricultural crops spread across space? A research project on the influence of animals on human farming practices.
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Deep time, Agriculture, Landscape, History, Biodiversity
- contributionRobert N. Spengler
Plant Domestication and Dispersal
How did the agricultural practices of prehistoric civilizations contribute to the environmental conditions of the Anthropocene?
Field Work, Agriculture, History, Urbanism
- contributionNatalie Mueller
Understanding the North American Lost Crops
Which kind of ancient crops were cultivated by prehistoric civilizations in eastern North America? Archaeologist Natalie Mueller pursues this question in her research on “lost crops”
Field Study, Agriculture, Deep time, History, Human-environment relations
- contributionMatthew Fluharty, Jennifer Colten
Monsanto Town
In what ways is the Anthropocene embodied in communities and everyday life? An introduction to the conflicting histories of Sauget, Illinois, formerly known as Monsanto Town.
Case Study, Agriculture, History, Capitalism
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- projectJason Ludwig
From Plantations to Petrochemicals
What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene?
Field Study, History, Commodities, Economy, Capitalism, Degradation, Agriculture, Energy, Pollution
- projectImani Jacqueline Brown
Before I Know You
A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.
Field Study, Storytelling, Ecology, History, Imaginary, Speculative, Water, Sedimentation, Energy, Pollution, Agriculture
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Field Station 2 | Toward Ecological Sovereignty
The seminar concludes in Saukenuk. The environmental transformations wrought by settlement have not exterminated Indigenous political and ecological practices, which have persisted and adapted to what Kyle Powys White calls the “post-apocalyptic conditions of the present.”
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Agency, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectMorgan Adamson, Ravi Agarwal, Bruce Braun, Shana M. griffin, Sarah Lewison, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, Grace Treffinger, Geneva Lebouf
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Agency, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Commodities, Capitalism, Violence, Race, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice
- projectAmy Lesen, Catherine Russell, Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Scott Wing
Seminar: Clashing Temporalities
This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.
Case Study, Teaching, Time, Deep time, Adaptation, Agriculture, Biosphere, Evolution, Metabolism, Human-environment relations, Water, Waste, History, Sedimentation, Erosion
- projectBeate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Benjamin Steininger, Thomas Turnbull, Ibrahima Seck, Nikos Katsikis, Scott Eustis
Seminar: Commodity Flows
The relations between extraction, synthesis, and exploitation, and the effects of commodity dependencies across scales are explored in this seminar, by mapping commodity flows and energy cycles in the Mississippi basin.
Case Study, Teaching, Commodities, Capitalism, Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, History, Economy, Race, Slavery, Plantation, Metabolism, Infrastructure, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Oil
- projectMaya Kóvskaya, Montana Torrey, Ellie Irons
Natchez: Etiologies of Anthropocenic Emergence
Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Violence, Economy, Agriculture, Equality, Plantation, Slavery, Race, Environmental Justice
- projectMarlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer
Timeslips
On the difference between a river and a boundary. Impressions from the levee and speculations on a view from afar.
Field Study, Geo-engineering, Infrastructure, Flood, Agriculture, Space travel
- projectMatthew Fluharty, Jennifer Colten
Monsanto Town
Corporate personhood has rearticulated how agricultural giant Monsanto operates legally on the landscape.
Case Study, Field Study, Agriculture, Governance, Policy, Landscape, Capitalism, Biodiversity, History, Ethics
- projectJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber, James McAnally, Lynn Peemoeller, Treasure Shields Redmond, Jesse Vogler, Natalie Mueller
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.
Field Study, Field Work, Storytelling, Water, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Deep time, Time, History, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Epistemology, Environmental Justice, Industrialization
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Field Station 2 | Walking and Learning the Land
The third day of the seminar heads outdoors to explore the landscape on foot and to consider the ways of knowing that such embodied inquiry allows.
Case Study, Storytelling, Deep time, History, Equality, Agency, Landscape, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge infrastructure, Care
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Field Station 2 | Unsettling Anthropocene Landscapes
Opening day of the traveling seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow, which situates the escalating environmental crisis of the Anthropocene Midwest within settler colonial histories and narratives.
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Landscape, Violence, Agriculture, Agency, Climate change, Care, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism
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Field Station 2 | Restoring the Land
Day two of Over the Levee, Under the Plow takes place at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Examining Native and non-Native practices of conservation, this full day of seminars will work through the multivalent meanings of the term “restoration”.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Resilience, Flood, Engineering, Metabolism, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Glaciation, Environmental Justice
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
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Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018–19
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy.
Experiment, Field Study, Field Work, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Commodities, Complexity, Disaster, Energy, Disciplinarity, Embodiment, Engineering, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Local knowledge, System, Transportation, Urbanism, Waste
- contributionRyan Griffis
A Great Green Desert
Ryan Griffis’ pamphlet in the Deep Time Chicago series traces the networks, economies, and monochrome landscapes of US agribusiness.
Case Study, Field Work, Reflection, Deep time, Agriculture, Plantation
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- contributionElaine Gan
To See a World in a Grain of Rice: Temporalities of a Flowering Grass and the Great Acceleration
Artist and environmental humanities scholar Elaine Gan tells the story of two different grains of rice. To engineer the ecology and growth cycles of these grains is to change river flows and the multiple rhythms of life and death.
Storytelling, Human-environment relations, Life, Ecology, Agriculture, Species
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- contributionMargarida Mendes
Molecular Colonialism
Life cannot be coded. With unexpected genetic deviations, matter bites back at the colonizing hand of man.
Case Study, Reflection, Settler Colonialism, Biosphere, Agriculture, Economy, Data, Colonialism, Monsanto
- projectBrian Holmes, Jeremy Bolen, Caroline Picard, Oliver Sann, Andrew Yang, Lorraine Daston, Ryan Griffis, Evan Graham, Jenny Magnus, Viviana de la Rosa, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, Guanyu Xu
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago’ pamphlets delve into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem.
Case Study, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Education, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, History, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
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Asia’s Transformations to Sustainability
RIHN 11th International Symposium
Sensing, Agriculture, Economy
- contributionLino Camprubí, Timothy Johnson
Deserts. The Geopolitics of Geology
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the growing dependency of national food supplies on fertilizer has turned phosphorus into a critical resource within geopolitical conflicts.
Storytelling, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, History, Commodities
- contributionZachary Caple, Arno Rosemarin, Scott Gabriel Knowles
Rifts, Cycles, and Recycles
The human body produces five hundred liters of urine and fifty liters of feces per year, which is equivalent to about half a kilogram of phosphorus. One day’s urine from an adult is sufficient to fertilize a square meter of cropped area for each cropping period.
Reflection, Engagement, Species, Ecology, Agriculture
- contributionJulie Le Gall, Olivier Hamant
AC event 2016
An interdisciplinary conference laying out the aesthetic, perceptive, agricultural, digital, and governmental dimensions of the Anthropocene.
Agriculture, Human-environment relations, Economy
- projectLino Camprubí, Zachary Caple, Gregory T. Cushman, Heather Davis, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Arno Rosemarin, Frank Uekötter, Katrina Schwartz
Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere
Within the technosphere, earth becomes energy, people become populations and space becomes sphere. But how to make visible this network of flows coursing through our bodies?
Communicating, Intervention, Conversation, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Anthropos, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Complexity, Commodities, Embodiment, Energy, Landscape, Mining, Waste, Violence, Technosphere
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jürgen Renn, Erich Hörl, Birgit Schneider
Triggers: Introducing the Technosphere
What triggered the technosphere? This lightning-round presents a visual and aural panorama of events that catalyzed the rise of our contemporary technical worlds.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, History, Technosphere, Anthropos, Carbon, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Critical materials, Cybernetics, Data, Settler Colonialism, Disaster, Contingency, Extraction, Pollution, Network
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The Technosphere, Now
How did we end up in this world of technological vertigo? This dilemma was the main theme of The Technosphere, Now, a showcase held on October 2, 2015.
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, Reflection, Agency, Agriculture, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Critical materials, Embodiment, Extraction, Future, Technosphere, History, Imaginary
- contributionIsadora Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
Agricultural Revolution vs. the Industrial Revolution
c. 10,000 BC marks the agreed date of the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution. In a seminar room during Anthropocene Campus 2014, a group debated where to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene.
Film, Agriculture, Time, Scale, Industrialization
