Keyword: Extinction
- projectLucio De Capitani, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi
Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide
Published in 2022, this experimental guide to Venice forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of the water city and its Lagoon.
Field Study, Engagement, Reflection, Mapping, Water, Extinction, Flood, Climate change, Human-environment relations, History, Urbanism, Disaster, Future
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionOrit Halpern, Stephen Himson, Sophia Roosth, Mark Williams, Matthew C. Wilson
Clashing Presents: Memory and Oblivion in Times of Extinction
Exploring the accelerating processes and cumulative events of species extinction by examining biotic changes in the sediments of the San Francisco Bay.
Conversation, Reflection, Extinction, Species, Deep time, Time, Biodiversity
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Clashing Presents
Exploring the competing time horizons, latency effects and accelerations that run counter to the pulse of late-Holocene societies.
Conversation, Extinction, Deep time, Time, Holocene, System, Biosphere, Stratigraphy, Governance
- contributionMark Williams, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jens Zinke, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kristine L. DeLong
Biological and Paleontological Signatures of the Anthropocene
Lakes, seas, estuaries, and wetlands provide important archives of humanity’s reconfiguration of life in the Anthropocene.
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Extinction, Evolution, History, Scale, Stratigraphy, Future
- contributionMarcia Bjornerud
Ironies of the Anthropocene
Faced with the Anthropocene, Marcia Bjornerud sees a set of grave ironies at play that make it hard for any geologist to capture its real meaning. We can only acknowledge these ironies and use them wisely to restore a lost alliance with the Earth.
Anthropos, Deep time, Extinction, Extraction, Stratigraphy, Affect
- contributionChristina Gruber, Lynn Peemoeller, Nikiwe Solomon, Adrian Van Wyk
Approaching a Waterway
Artists discuss sturgeons pushed to the edge of extinction and the future of a chemically polluted river near Cape Town.
Conversation, Case Study, Species, Water, Extinction, System, Ecology
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Anthropos, Architecture, Deep time, Ecology, Engineering, Extinction, Infrastructure, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Dakota, Fieldstation, Colonialism, Temporary Continent, 2019, Andrea Carlson
- contributionAmina Harper, Andrea Carlson
Anthropocene Refusal
The end of mankind is almost over: a short film on de-colonized futures.
Film, Experiment, Extinction, Race, Settler Colonialism, Imaginary, Speculative, Disaster, Anthropos, Future
- 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
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Monique Verdin, Matt Rahaim, Adam Crosson, Kristine L. DeLong, Matt Sakakeeny, Simon Turner, Joshua Lewis, Albertine Kimble
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Future, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Affect, Ethics, Epistemology, Engagement, Extinction, Environmental Justice, Species, Speculative
- projectHugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida, Ana Matilde Sousa, Aidan Koch, Daniela Pinto, Pedro Moura
Seminar: Funny Animals
This seminar takes the concept of “funny animals” as a starting point for participants to explore a wide variety of “character” representations.
Storytelling, Human-animal relations, Extinction, Affect
- contributionPhilippe Descola
Anthropocene Lecture - Philippe Descola
Is the Anthropocene soluble in ontological pluralism?
Anthropology, Epistemology, Extinction, Climate change
- contributionChristopher Reznich
13,000 Years of Messing Around with the Holocene
From mega-fauna extinction to atombic bomb: mapping the history of anthropogenic transformations of Earth.
Naturecultures, Deep time, Extinction
