An initiative that explores the entangled histories of a multiplicity of Anthropocene narratives.

Since 2019, Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) has conducted multiple public engagement programmes around the Anthropocene.

It’s possible that the most suitable golden spike for marking the beginning of the Anthropocene does not yet exist.

Artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins recover the deep-time aquatic past of the limestone environment that formed the island of Gotland and delineate the temporal entanglements between ancient life creation and modern-day living.

Venice’s critical environment is a paradigmatic case for comprehending socio-environmental history in dialogue with the Earth sciences.

How are the relationships between state, market, natural environments, and citizens understood? And how does this create or foreclose political and ethical agency?

Bringing the city and the environments of Venice into focus as the basis for historical and comparative studies on global geo-anthropological processes.

Audio reflections on the river that flows south toward Natchez and New Orleans, stirring up relations between chemistry and commodity, labor and industry, plantation and plantationocene.

A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest.

Some of the most interesting work on the Anthropocene takes place in between places, in between disciplines, and even in between the lines.

A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate.

Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future.

Andrew Yang and Sarah Lewison urge us to consider the possibilities of moving beyond an economics of extraction.

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.

What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene?

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.

The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans.

A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.

Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.

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.

Public enemy or mascot of a global commons? Tracing the postnatural expansion of the Asian Carp.

How can design reclaim the forms, technologies, economies and logistics of waste streams in the production of urbanism?

Cultural scholar Esther Leslie reveals the vexing temporalities of contemporary types of waste.

With the establishment of universal standards around 1948, the world is transformed into a technocratic space of transactions. Theoretical and artistic contributions contour the technical standards of an infinitely circulating present.

Life cannot be coded. With unexpected genetic deviations, matter bites back at the colonizing hand of man.

In this artistic formulation, Florian Goldmann makes popular risk indexes fungible, specifically their conflation of natural disaster with financial disaster.

The criticality of an element is defined by the relevance of its most important economic applications and the risks, both current and future, to its supply and the sustainability of its extraction and use.

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?

An interdisciplinary conference laying out the aesthetic, perceptive, agricultural, digital, and governmental dimensions of the Anthropocene.

Anomaly can only be detected against the ground of pattern regularity. Media theorist Matteo Pasquinelli explores the return of the abnormal into politics as a mathematical object.

What are future decision-makers learning at college today? And how will it effect the direction the Anthropocene is taking? Making the case for a change in the teaching of economics.

How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective.

When the ticker was replaced by the monitor. A lecture on the information architecture of the global financial market.

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.

If the technosphere is a condition of the Anthropocene, we ought to acknowledge the dangers of making technology seem “natural.” Critical discard studies can help us make visible the violence that has gone into making the technosphere.

The history of forestry management in Germany shows how economic and scientific practices merged to represent the perfect order of nature and state.

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.

The overexploitation of natural capital will lead to profound and unanticipated social and environmental changes, if we do not learn to “value nature”. But is the equivalence of natural and financial capital adequate? How can we identify the threshold between what can and cannot be  subjected to market rules?

On hydro-imperialism and pollution along northern boarders

The North Pole and the question of ownership

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.

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