Keyword: Energy
- contributionBenjamin Johnson
Closed Chemical Cycles
It’s possible that the most suitable golden spike for marking the beginning of the Anthropocene does not yet exist.
Reflection, Carbon, Energy, Deep time, Economy, Engineering, Future, Governance, System
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Molecular Mobilization
How can an archaeology of the present address molecules as driving elements of the “Great Acceleration”? Benjamin Steininger contends that the apparatus of catalytic chemistry has triggered a cascade of accelerations which lead to the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Carbon, Commodities, Energy, Infrastructure, Engineering, Metabolism, Technosphere, Transportation
- 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
- contributionNigel Clark
Anthropogenic Fire as the Hinge between Earth System and Strata
Storytelling, Carbon, Energy, Human-environment relations, Thermodynamics
- 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
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Louisiana: A Planetary Reactor
A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate.
Field Work, Case Study, Engagement, Carbon, Degradation, Economy, Climate change, Commodities, Extraction, Energy, Infrastructure, Toxicity, Waste, Pollution
- contributionSara Black, Amber Ginsburg
Deep Time Walking
A reflection on the collision of human and geological time at the site of Ferne Clyff State Park, Illinois.
Field Work, Deep time, Carbon, Energy
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Work, Sound, Energy, Engineering, Scale, Access, Industrialization
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Louisiana, USA
Autonomy, Energy, Evolution, Ocean, Sedimentation
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Carbon, Climate change, Commodities, Energy, Pollution
- Field Noteunderhil
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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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Union, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Energy, Landscape
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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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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Engagement, Carbon, Commodities, Complexity, Energy, River journey, Embodied research, refinery, Catalysis
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Anthropocene River: Public Opening Anthropocene River Campus
A public program from November 10–16th, 2019, with presentations and discussions by the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project partners and the Anthropocene Working Group.
Conversation, Reflection, Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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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
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Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Carbon, Climate change, Deep time, Energy, Erosion, Mining, Sedimentation, Seismic, Glaciation, Extraction
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Bloomsdale, Missouri, USA
Carbon, Energy, Metabolism, Scale
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Commodities, Ecology, Energy, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Transport, Barge
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Hampton, Illinois, USA
Mapping, Affect, Complexity, Energy, Risk, Lightning
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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West Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Commodities, Energy
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Genoa, Wisconsin, USA
Reflection, Teaching, Field Study, Carbon, Climate change, Energy, River journey, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Crater Island, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Energy, Homeostasis, Landscape, River journey
- contributionSteffen Beirle, Christian Borger, Thomas Wagner
Mississippi Region Nitrogen Dioxide Distribution Map
An ongoing series of satellite maps produced by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, charting nitrogen distribution in the Mississippi region.
Field Work, Mapping, Monitoring, Pollution, Energy, Human-environment relations
- contributionIrka Hajdas
Weldon Spring—A Witness to the Dark History of Science
Since its discovery, perspectives on radioactivity have changed drastically through time. In this piece, physicist Irka Hajdas takes a look into the nuclear past of Weldon Spring, Missouri.
Radioactivity, History, Waste, Energy
- 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
- projectSteffen Beirle, Thomas Wagner, Christian Borger
Mapping the Distribution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the Mississippi Region
What do the spatial patterns of the distribution of nitrogen dioxide reveal about human-environment relations? And how do pollution levels along the Mississippi compare globally?
Field Work, Mapping, Monitoring, Pollution, Energy, Air
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Teaching, Education, Embodiment, Energy, Engagement
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Work, Autonomy, Energy, Future, Renewable energy, Sustainability
- projectThomas Turnbull
Revisiting Regionalism in the Mississippi Basin
What if the kinetic energy of the river’s flow could be utilized for a regionalized power system? This research project turns towards the past and future of infrastructural regionalism.
Field Study, Energy, Infrastructure, Future, Renewable energy
- projectBenjamin Steininger
Baton Rouge: A Process Landscape at the Confluence of German-American Chemistry
The impact of fossil fuel emissions on climate change is well established. This research project sheds light on the lesser known origins and history of the petro-industry.
Field Study, History, Pollution, Energy, Toxicity, Commodities
- 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 1 | Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment: The Machinic River
Boat and walking tours, sound installations, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings around the Twin Cities region explore the Mississippi River as a space of intervention and experimentation.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Sound, Film, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Water, History, Energy, Engineering, Aesthetics, Mechanosphere, Settler Colonialism, Inequality, Technosphere, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Extractive Infrastructures and Imaginaries
The fourth day of the seminar travels from Wisconsin to Illinois to examine the interplay of displacement, immigration, and engineering in producing the landscapes of extractive agriculture celebrated in the racialized mythology of the American “heartland.”
Case Study, Storytelling, Energy, Commodities, Infrastructure, Mining, Imaginary, Carbon, Pollution, Indigenous Rights, 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
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Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
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.
Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
- projectJohn Kim, Joe Underhill, Jamie Allen, Monica Moses Haller, Brian Holmes, Claire Pentecost, Shanai Matteson
Kick-off Anthropocene River Journey
The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering.
Field Study, Teaching, Water, Local knowledge, Infrastructure, Energy, History
- projectJeremy Bolen, Brian Kirkbride, Brian Holmes
Born Secret
A mythologized Uranium enrichment facility in Honeywell sets the scene for radioisotopes that are key markers for determining the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Radioactivity, Speculative, Imaginary, Energy, Sedimentation
- 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
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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
- contributionManfred Laubichler
The Growth and Differentiation of Metabolism: Extended Evolutionary Dynamics in the Technosphere
By going through the transitions in cell evolution and energy regimes, evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler explains the dynamics behind the formation of the metabolic activity and complexity of our planet.
Engagement, Mapping, Teaching, Evolution, Energy, History
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
In the Sphere of Chemical Technology
Historian of industrial chemistry Benjamin Steiniger describes the technological metabolism that is forging a connection between fossil materiality and humankind.
Engagement, Modernity, History, Energy
- contributionAxel Kleidon
How the Technosphere Can Make the Earth More Active
Could it be said that with the development of the technosphere, the Earth is currently undergoing a shift to a state of greater activity?
Engagement, Intervention, Technosphere, Energy
- projectJens Soentgen, Alexander Ilichevsky, Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger, Dieter Hiller, Oxana Timofeeva, Stephanie LeMenager
Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons plunges into the complexities and contradictions of the oil era and thereby into the molecular basis of the technosphere. Interweaving film scenes with a variety of visual and research materials, as well as the “sounds of oil,” the session explores the speculative cultural genre termed “petro noir,” examining the geopolitical-industrial complex that drives petrochemistry and, by consequence, mobility, consumption, waste and adventure.
Conversation, Engagement, Film, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Sound, Carbon, Commodities, Critical materials, Energy, Extraction, Metabolism, Technosphere, Thermodynamics, Transportation, Waste, Scenario
- contributionBrian Larkin
Ambient Infrastructures. Generator Life in Nigeria
Petrol generators are an essential part of the energy supply in Nigeria. Brian Larkin explores the consequences of these generators and their parasitical relationship to more formal infrastructures through the presence of noise and pollution.
Case Study, Reflection, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Energy
- contributionLeah Aronowsky, Caitlin Berrigan, Manjana Milkoreit, Angela Rawlings
Petrosens-i-a-bility
Petroleum is a dark, thick distillation of mosses, bones, bodies, and beings condensed over time together. What was it anticipating? Did it expect to be discovered and extracted in such a relative instant?
Experiment, Teaching, Aesthetics, Energy, glossary, Oil
- contributionGabrielle Hecht, Paul N. Edwards
Taking on the Technosphere: A Kitchen Debate
“Now you’re sounding even weirder than Peter Haff.” The gloves are off! A lively dispute about the usefulness of the Technosphere concept in general.
Conversation, Energy, Metabolism, Technoscience, Technosphere, System, Autonomy
- 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
