Keyword: Imaginary
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
What on Earth is the Planetary?
In this essay, artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen ask: Where do planetarities come from, and where are they taking us?
Complexity, Cosmologies, Imaginary, Knowledge production
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Introduction
Changes in global conditions create changes in the practices of global science. Do we have a means of tracing these interrelations?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Chapter 1: Through the Vast Machine
How does planetarity and its composition shift under conditions of planetary change?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Chapter 2: The Book of the Machine
What happens to our visions of the planetary when everyone has to stay at home, in their little boxes, speaking to other people in little boxes?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Chapter 3: The Committee of the Machine
At what point does the planetary scale outweigh its own usefulness as a tool for apprehension, discernment, and interpretation?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Chapter 4: Developments in the Machine
How do the ways in which planetary thinkers do their work affect how the “planetary” emerges as a concept, and the planet itself (re)emerges as an entity?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Chapter 5: The Machine Did Stop
How can experiences of planetary ethics, politics and aesthetic be shared, explored and learned from, together?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
- contributionJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
Epilogue
What would it mean to let go of our planet, such that it might come back to us?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
- projectJamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen
The Impossibility of a Planet
“The Impossibility of a Planet”, by artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen, is an ongoing research and media project that seeks out dialogues with people who compose planetary images, thought, narratives, and models.
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
- contributionLiCo
Building and Forgetting
Does habitability today requires not the building up of more knowledge, but rather the relinquishing, forgetting, or disinheriting of knowledge?
Reflection, Architecture, Complexity, Imaginary, Spatial
- 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
- contributionGiulia Rispoli
The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene
Storytelling, Contingency, Disaster, Model, Governance, Policy, Imaginary, Radioactivity, System
- contributionAdam Crosson, Monique Verdin, Monica Moses Haller
Specifics of Vulnerability
What can be learned from attuning to the specifics of vulnerability when artificial realities are interrogated?
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Agency, Care, Ethics, Education, Infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Imaginary
- contributionAron Chang
Drawn Together
On drawing as a core methodology, not only to record and understand dynamic conditions but also to devise new approaches and imaginaries for New Orleans and beyond.
Engagement, Field Study, Field Work, Reflection, Conversation, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Adaptation, Complexity, Engineering, Human-environment relations, Sustainability, Speculative
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Experiment, Deep time, Erosion, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Landscape, Sedimentation
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Luz Mourão, Portugal
Storytelling, Mapping, Architecture, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Model, Participatory governance
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Exhaustion and Imagination
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Exhaustion and Imagination,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Field Work, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Environmental Justice
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Montegut, Louisiana, USA
Climate change, Evolution, Human-animal relations, Hybrid, Imaginary, Naturecultures, Mythology, Memory
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Climate change, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Slavery, Cosmologies, Air, Transport
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Autonomy, Embodiment, Engagement, History, Imaginary, Resilience, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Memory, Sugar Cane, Women
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Dreams Denied
Environmental Risk in the Matanza-Riachuelo, Mississippi, and Yamuna River Basins with an exhibition tour and panel discussion.
Imaginary, Inequality
- Field Noteunderhil
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Disaster, Imaginary, Car
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Field Work, Aesthetics, Agency, Architecture, Care, Habits, Imaginary, Life, Local knowledge
- Field Noteunderhil
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Field Study, Modeling, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Landscape, Model, Scale, Overlook, Cement, Confluence
- contributionJamie Allen, Temporary continent.
Pictured Journeys, Experiences of Descriptions: Tracing ways down the Mississippi
On the privilege of the storyteller and making visible the various contradictions inherent within efforts to bridge gaps and communicate “what happened” during the Anthropocene River Journey.
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Media
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Imaginary, Engagement, Agriculture
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Speculative Life, Montreal 2017
Teaching, Experiment, Engagement, Speculative, Network, Future, Imaginary, Technosphere, Media
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Jenny Kendler
Lounging Through the Flood
Intervention, Experiment, Water, Flood, Aesthetics, Imaginary
- Field Noteunderhil
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Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA
Mapping, Aesthetics, Imaginary, Landscape
- contributionRoopali Phadke
Looking Downstream
How do narratives, relationships and practices change when we talk about anthropocene rivers?
Knowledge production, Imaginary, Naturecultures
- 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
- 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 | 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
- 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
- projectJeremy Bolen, Jenny Kendler
Lounging through the Flood
A sculptural comment on our apathetic frivolity in the face of climate catastrophe.
Intervention, Experiment, Flood, History, Disaster, Epistemology, Migration, Imaginary
- 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
- 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
- contributionAdam Bobbette
Forecasting Earth Futures
How do futures emerge? And how are they understood and produced? An examination on the social function of the process of forecasting.
Future, Scenario, Imaginary, Model
- contributionLawrence Abu Hamdan
Contra Diction. Speech Against Itself
What techniques do we use when we navigate between the human voice, governmental law and the concept of justice in the technosphere?
Storytelling, Sound, Technosphere, Agency, Governance, Policy, Imaginary
- projectRana Dasgupta, S. Løchlann Jain, Clapperton C. Mavhunga, Matteo Pasquinelli, Lucy Suchman
Trauma: The Language of the Technosphere
How is the technosphere inscribed into individual human bodies? How are they restructured along a complex machinery of instruments, techniques, simulations?
Communicating, Engagement, Intervention, Monitoring, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Care, Anthropos, Anthropology, Cosmologies, Deep time, Embodiment, Education, Calculation, Future, Imaginary, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Technosphere
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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
- projectWolfgang Lucht, Philipp Oswalt, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Sverker Sörlin
Seminar: Imaging the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene remains peculiarly flat and colorless when it comes to concrete images, which are lacking cultural nuance and historical depth. New imaginaries and imaginations are needed to engage with alternative futures of infrastructure and anthropogenically altered landscapes.
Teaching, Experiment, Aesthetics, Epistemology, History, Future, Imaginary, image
