Keyword: Capitalism
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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
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“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- contributionStephanie Wakefield, Gean Moreno
Wars of Armageddon
What does it mean to live in a city already deemed “unsavable” and why is the contemporary art made in Miami that deals directly with climate change often so innocuous?
Case Study, Reflection, Aesthetics, Adaptation, Capitalism, Climate change, Disaster, Flood
- contributionLouise Carver
Repair Is Broken
Louise Carver examines what is broken about neoliberal capitalist modes of repair in the context of the Anthropocene.
Engagement, Field Work, Care, Carbon, Climate change, Capitalism
- contributionMacarena Gómez-Barris
An Earth Being Platform
Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present.
Reflection, Communicating, Extraction, Settler Colonialism, Care, Capitalism, Violence
- contributionJulia Adeney Thomas
Modern Political Hopes as Immaterial Markers of the Anthropocene
Constellating three documents that mark a story of changing hopes for a better future, historian Julia Adeney Thomas advocates to recognize the immaterial power of ideas that gave birth to the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Reflection, Capitalism, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Future, Ethics, Imaginary, Modernity, History
- contributionChristoph Rosol
When the Signal Disappears in the Noise
Christoph Rosol reflects on the disturbing schism between geoscientific insights and the info-capitalist modus operandi diluting these insights to mere noise. Are we ready to comprehend what the Earth has already recorded?
Reflection, Capitalism, Consensus, Epistemology, Future, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Technoscience, System
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
Geological Evidences
We live to burn and we burn to live. Artist Matthew C. Wilson pieces together the pyrogenic deep time of rifts, violent changes that also always produce new possibilities.
Field Work, Film, Carbon, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Ecology, Metabolism, Thermodynamics
- contributionKarolina Sobecka, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler
Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks
The following essay and mapping exercise on whales reflects on the natural-cultural history of these creatures whose non-human bodies allow for thinking across different aesthetic and epistemic registers.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Carbon, Capitalism, Embodiment, Violence, Energy, Ocean
- contributionRavi Agarwal
The Art of Climate Emergency
For the third keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference, art historian and cultural critic TJ Demos reflects on the art of climate emergency.
Reflection, Intervention, Engagement, Extraction, Race, Climate change, Migration, Environmental Justice, Capitalism
- contributionRavi Agarwal
We are All Connected: the State of Nature and What We Are Doing to Ourselves
Poet and author Ruth Padel delivers the second keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Extraction, Climate change, Capitalism, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Future, Species
- contributionNikiwe Solomon, Adrian Van Wyk
Consensus Building: The Clash between Governance and Everyday Life
From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Water, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Capitalism, Governance, Urbanism
- contributionShannon Mattern
Archival Phase Shifts
What might an “Anthropocene archive” look like? Media anthropologist Shannon Mattern proposes that it should embrace its ever evolving content, structure and context.
Archiving, Mapping, Water, Climate change, Time, Flood, Landscape, Knowledge infrastructure, Toxicity, Capitalism
- contributionJason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
An Archival Epoch?
How can archival production be a catalyst for urgently needed action? Researchers Jason Ludwig and Tim Schütz reflect on networks of solidarity via the Formosa Plastics Archive.
Archiving, Case Study, Capitalism, Knowledge infrastructure, Governance, Pollution, Environmental Justice
- projectBeate Geissler, Oliver Sann
Hopium Economy
From opioids to the Anthropocene: a video project on addiction as the substantial mode of our existence
Storytelling, Case Study, Field Work, Habits, Capitalism, Energy, Care, Industrialization
- 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
- contributionBabak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai, Katrin Hornek, Margarida Mendes
A Trace, a Breath
Using sensory work, artists explore how the effects of opium relate to colonialist and capitalist extraction, and convey a tale of industry and the Latvian geological landscape.
Reflection, Sound, Storytelling, Conversation, Capitalism, Settler Colonialism
- contributionJoe Underhill
A River Semester
Reporting live from the Mississippi River, travelers question how transforming the act of sensing might remake social, political and environmental relations?
Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Climate change, Race, Settler Colonialism, Species, Capitalism
- contributionBernd M. Scherer, Jeremias Herberg, John Kim, Adania Shibli
An Anthropocene in Two Parts
The most challenging aspects of doing Anthropocene research require learning how local realities may inform broader global issues.
Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Race, Ecology
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta short film
Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Storytelling, Reflection, Anthropos, Capitalism, Carbon, Commodities, Climate change, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Race, Water
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows.
Engagement, Intervention, Field Work, Teaching, Extraction, Commodities, Complexity, Slavery, Capitalism, Habits, History, Infrastructure
- contributionSarah Lewison
Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Field Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Architecture, Commodities, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Extraction, History, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Race, Slavery
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Ashley Rogers
Layers of Violence
From agricultural slavery to petroleum, the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana represent an Anthropocenic space characterized by a slow history of extraction.
Field Work, Teaching, Engagement, Reflection, Slavery, Capitalism, Violence, Equality, History, Race, Extraction
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Lost Voices
On the shared experiences of those who live along the Mississippi in New Orleans and the Yamuna in Delhi, reciprocal relationships with nature, and the importance of listening in the Anthropocene.
Engagement, Reflection, Conversation, Capitalism, Education, Human-environment relations, Naturecultures, Water
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Technosphere Magazine
Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future.
Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Film, Modeling, Reflection, Storytelling, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Anthropology, Big data, Capitalism, Complexity, Critical materials, Economy, Extraction, Governance, Infrastructure, System, Human-environment relations
- contributionMorgan Adamson
Real Estate River
Extractive processes have historically shaped the human-environment relations along the Mississippi. In this piece, Morgan Adamson calls for a radical new imagining for the river’s future.
Reflection, Urbanism, History, Capitalism, Economy
- contributionTemporary continent., Lital Khaikin
Acquiring and Optimizing Sustainable Relationships for Good Solid Cash Flow Streams. Or, Speaking with Plants.
On the connections between language and landscape, as well the disconnections that can occur when the former is used to frame intentions towards the latter.
Reflection, Conversation, Care, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Commodity Flows
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Commodity Flows,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Film, Field Work, Capitalism, Infrastructure
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
“What on Earth”: Confluences in the planetary metabolism
Field Station 4 contributor Andrew Yang elucidates on the reasons for taking its title, “Confluence Ecologies,” as a lens through which to apprehend the Anthropocene
Field Work, Storytelling, Mapping, Commodities, Extraction, History, Capitalism, Scale
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Meraux, Louisiana, USA
Capitalism, Network, Scale
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Affect, Capitalism, Carbon, Disaster, Education, Ethics, Habits, Slavery, Colonialism, Toxics, Whiteness, undead
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Reflection, Conversation, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Capitalism, Consensus, Contingency, Epistemology, Ethics, Representation, Sharing economy, Extraction
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Inequality
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Field Work, Monitoring, Capitalism, Carbon, Energy, Pollution, Race, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Slavery, Industrialization, Risk, Oil, refinery, Time, Toxics
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Garyville, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Case Study, Capitalism, History, Life, Inequality, Risk, Slavery, Plantation, Oil, Embodied research, refinery, Whiteness
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Sensing, Aesthetics, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Perception
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Teaching, Intervention, Conversation, Anthropology, Anthropos, Capitalism, Commodities, Complexity, Deep time, Energy, Mining, Scale, Extraction, Oil, 2019, Geo-ecologies, Time
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Commodities, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Industrialization, Geochemistry, River journey, Catalysis, Time
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Capitalism, Carbon, Hybrid, Landscape, Oil, Walking, refinery, Catalysis
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
- 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
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Field Study, Field Work, Capitalism, Commodities, Engineering, Cement
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Engagement, Agriculture, Capitalism, Commodities
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Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Architecture, Capitalism, Fieldstation, 2019, Morgan Adamson
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Field Station 5 | Memphis: The River City
Episode 5 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Black Ecologies: historicization & futures
Episode 4 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Perils of Privatization in NOLA
Episode 3 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Episode 2 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race, Care
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.
Experiment, Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Technoscience, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Equality, Agency, Architecture, Big data, Data, Computation, Network, Urbanism, Transportation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future
- 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
- projectMargarida Mendes
Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.
Sound, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Storytelling, Water, Violence, Toxicity, Environmental Justice, Ecology, Scale, Capitalism, Technosphere
- 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
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Michael Orr, Marylee Orr, Myung Ae Choi, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Buhm Soon Park, Wilma Subra, Louisiana Landmarks Society (LLS), Jeffrey Treffinger, Wendi Moore O'Neal, Daneeta Loretta Jackson
Seminar: Risk/Equity
The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences.
Case Study, Teaching, Disaster, Ethics, Capitalism, Care, Participatory governance, Violence, Environmental Justice, Risk, Inequality
- 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
- 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
- projectAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
Broadcasting Live from… Field Station 5
A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.
Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- projectJared Richardson, Abbéy Odunlami, Maya Kóvskaya, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Montana Torrey, Hannah Schaedler, Ellie Irons
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.
Field Study, Field Work, Intervention, Storytelling, Commodities, Capitalism, Spatial, History, Economy, Embodiment, Knowledge infrastructure, Race, Violence, Plantation, Environmental Justice
- projectGavin Kroeber
Domesticating the Anthropocene
The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.
Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Capitalism, Water, Landscape, Imaginary, Scenario, Local knowledge, Knowledge infrastructure
- 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
- projectMorgan Adamson, Bruce Braun, Roopali Phadke
Contesting the De-industrial Futures of the Upper Mississippi
A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature.
Case Study, Intervention, Field Study, Urbanism, Water, Engineering, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Industrialization
- projectKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, Marlena Novak, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Andrew Yang, Jay Alan Yim
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.
Field Work, Mapping, Engineering, Water, Habits, Capitalism, Ecology, Socio-ecological design, Human-animal relations, Energy, Radioactivity, Waste, Geo-engineering, Industrialization
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, 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
- projectAndré Pereira, Ateliermob / Working with the 99%
Seminar: Building, Dwelling, Thinking in the Anthropocene
This seminar will reflect on the challenges that mass migration, resource management, and market dynamics impose on the practitioners of architecture.
Architecture, Governance, Urbanism, Migration, Capitalism, Community
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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
- contributionNikos Katsikis
Operational Landscapes and the Planetary Thünen Town
Urbanization organizes the planetary terrain—not just through cities and agglomeration zones, but also through the totality of diffused production areas and global commodity chains.
Mapping, Urbanism, Capitalism, Commodities
- contributionAkeel Bilgrami
State of Nature: Some Philosophical Issues
How can the debate on the environmental crisis be re-politicized? Akeel Bilgrami argues in favor of anti-capitalist, radically cooperative perspectives.
Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Epistemology
- contributionBenjamin Bratton
Tokens: A Rorschach Test
Blockchain technologies have become the prism through which ideas about trust and social relationships are technologically negotiated. Sociologist and design theorist Benjamin Bratton explores both the potentials and pitfalls of this technical architecture.
Teaching, Capitalism, Commodities
- contributionMark Graham
The Rise of the Planetary Labor Market—and What It Means for the Future of Work
In what ways have networked labor environments transformed how labor is done, and by whom?
Reflection, Capitalism, Care
- contributionKei Kreutler
The Byzantine Generalization Problem: Subtle Strategy in the Context of Blockchain Governance
Researcher Kei Kreutler analyzes the decentralized, consensus-driven decision processes implemented in blockchain technologies.
Reflection, Capitalism, Agency, Technosphere
- contributionNick Srnicek
The Abolition of Market Dependency
In this lecture, political scientist Nick Srnicek contends that to relieve humans of their dependency on markets, commodity labor needs to be transformed, if not abolished outright.
Teaching, Capitalism
- contributionKaushik Sunder Rajan
Pharmocracy: Access and Care
Anthropologist Kaushik Sunder Rajan unfolds how international frameworks and economics have embroiled the care of the human body in a geopolitical drama with wide-reaching implications.
Film, Care, Capitalism
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Eberhard Faust
Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Climate risk researcher Eberhard Faust and disaster historian Scott Knowles discuss calculating the costs of climate-change-related events.
Conversation, Climate change, Capitalism
- contributionKarin Knorr-Cetina
Financial Markets and the Technospheres They Constitute
In this enlightening lecture, sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina elaborates on three developmental stages in technology that enable the global financial market, and the foreign exchange market in particular.
Teaching, Capitalism
- contributionGerald Nestler
A-Symmetry—Algorithmic Finance and the Dark Side of the Efficient Market
Starting from the Flash Crash of 2010, artist and theorist Gerald Nestler investigates the problem of information asymmetries in high-frequency trading.
Engagement, Capitalism, System
- contributionFlorian Goldmann
Risk As Immaterial Raw Material
In this artistic formulation, Florian Goldmann makes popular risk indexes fungible, specifically their conflation of natural disaster with financial disaster.
Case Study, Reflection, Risk, Technosphere, Economy, Capitalism
- contributionKeith Breckenridge
Biometric Capitalism
Keith Breckenridge recognizes a particular mode of capitalism currently developing on the African continent: population registries based on biometric identification technologies that serve as a credit risk scoring tool for financial firms.
Film, Technosphere, Capitalism, Anthropology
- contributionRana Dasgupta
Trauma of Machines That We Make Love to Machines?
Writer Rana Dasgupta follows the data paths of the technosphere from the rural crafts cultures of India into new cultures of global desire, with stops at Facebook and in Hollywood, formulating two universal machines—technology and commerce—which he sees as a global technomarket.
Film, Technoscience, Technosphere, Capitalism
- contributionAnna Zett
Sleeping in Public, Working Like Babies
Sleep is a state where we disengage from the world around us both physically and sensuously. But how does this disconnection play a role in our relations to capital, the pharmaceutical industry and our cognitive plasticity?
Reflection, Engagement, Capitalism, Care, Economy
- contributionIvo Louro, David Habets, Cameron Hu, Axel Schmidt, Stefan Schäfer
Frontier Moods
It is a chemical element already being used to regulate the mood of bipolar patients, what role will it play in balancing the volatile moods of sun and wind? A tour de force through the wonderland of Lithium.
Film, Migration, Speculative, Capitalism
- projectBrian Holmes, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Claire Pentecost, Ryan Griffis
Seminar: Governing the Technosphere
How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference.
Teaching, Conversation, Case Study, Governance, Urbanism, Human-environment relations, System, Technosphere, Economy, Agency, Capitalism
- 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
- projectIoan Negrutiu, Olivier Hamant, Julie Le Gall, Luc Merchez, Jean-Louis Weber
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources
There is no alternative to placing the economy within the limits of the biosphere. This handbook outlines a new meric for the valuation of nature.
Biosphere, Future, Economy, Capitalism
- contributionIoan Negrutiu, Olivier Hamant, Julie Le Gall, Luc Merchez, Jean-Louis Weber
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources: Handbook
A global-resources “rush” has led to chronic socio-ecosystemic deficits, thus creating the conditions for local- and global-state shifts within the biosphere and/or society, with unprecedented loss of resilience at all levels. Assessing our resources and permanently accounting for their usage and allocation are imperative to imagining and designing societies that are socio-ecosystemically resilient.
Biosphere, Future, Economy, Capitalism, Extraction
