Keyword: Pollution
- contributionSimon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?
Mapping, Consensus Building, Experiment, Engagement, Pollution, Toxicity, Violence, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- contributionKat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022.
Teaching, Biosphere, Commodities, Critical materials, Degradation, Education, Future, Human-environment relations, Ocean, Pollution, Sedimentation
- contributionXandra van der Eijk
Visualizing the Vibrant Materiality of Place
What insights can artistic research data produce in the scientific analysis of the natural archive? Xandra van der Eijk addresses the value of artmaking with, through, and between the materiality of place in the sediment samples of Sydney Harbour.
Case Study, Sensing, Agency, Complexity, Critical materials, Hybrid, Aesthetics, Pollution, Degradation, Toxicity
- contributionAndrea Westermann
Against the Aestheticization of Technofossils
Plastic represents a particularly alluring material legacy in the rock record—but as Andrea Westermann shows, for its health and environmental hazards, consumerism and the exploitation of migrant labor, plastic is a deeply troubling material.
Storytelling, Aesthetics, Commodities, Critical materials, Deep time, Pollution, Migration, Environmental Justice
- contributionEva Horn
The Case of Air
Literary scholar Eva Horn unpacks air as an environing medium that has always entangled human life and the environment in very specific ways.
Case Study, Mapping, Climate change, Disciplinarity, Human-environment relations, Pollution, Scale
- 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
- projectTemporary continent., Jamie Allen, Louise Carver, Nina Jäger, Sarrita Hunn, James McAnally, Clémence Hallé, Anne-Sophie Milon, Duncan Evennou, Benoît Verjat
(un)mutable channels
Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings.
Archiving, Field Work, Conversation, Storytelling, Sound, Settler Colonialism, Pollution, Race, Water, Inequality, River journey
- contributionIsabelle Carbonell
The Mississippi Multiverse
Mississippi Multiverse is an immersive film that starts from an embodied sensorial practice to reckon with the ecological impact of petrochemical industries along the river.
Film, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Water, Pollution, Ecology, Embodiment, Embodied research
- contributionIsabelle Carbonell
The River in 24/7
What is the sound of the Lower Mississippi, a “superhighway” through which huge proportions of exported goods from the US are shipped every day?
Sound, Infrastructure, Water, Pollution, Human-environment relations, Ecology, Metabolism
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Myung Ae Choi
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Film, Reflection, Sensing, Affect, Agency, Care, Climate change, Carbon, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Extraction, Pollution, Race, Local knowledge
- 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
- contributionFlavio D’Abramo
Oysters, Selective Pressures, and Antibiotic Resistance in the Mississippi Delta
In addition to its position as a pillar of New Orleans cuisine, the humble oyster has also taken on another, more troubling role—serving as an indicator of water contamination in the Mississippi River Delta and the Lousiana Gulf.
Case Study, Modeling, Field Work, Biosphere, Water, Pollution, Species
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
30 Days On/30 Days Off with Paul Perkinson
In this episode, Treasure Shields Redmond and Paul Perkinson discuss how working on and next to the Mississippi shaped Paul’s life.
Conversation, History, Pollution, Transportation
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
#BlackBoyJoy On the River with Eugene B. Redmond
Treasure Shields Redmond and Eugene B. Redmond are joined by Jennifer Colten to talk about the Mississippi River as a backdrop of life.
Conversation, History, Water, Biodiversity, Pollution, Community
- contributionFrank Drewnick, Fiona Sprang, Lasse Moormann
The Anthropogenic Influence on Air Quality along the Mississippi River: Findings
Findings of a project considering anthropogenic impact upon air quality along the Mississippi River, exploring shifts in pollution concentration patterns.
Field Study, Monitoring, Case Study, Human-environment relations, Pollution, Toxicity
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Louisiana, USA
Carbon, Climate change, Commodities, Energy, Pollution
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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
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Data, Pollution, Air, Digital, Transport
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Pollution, Urbanism, Air, Digital, Substances
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Affect, Care, Complexity, Infrastructure, Perception, Pollution, Risk
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Big data, Environmental Justice, Media, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Twin Island, Wisconsin, USA
Monitoring, Sensing, Field Work, Data, Ecology, Pollution, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Geochemistry, Industrialization
- 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
- projectFrank Drewnick
Air-Quality Influences from the Anthropogenic Activities along the Mississippi River
A research project on the anthropogenic influence on pollution concentration and air quality of the Mississippi River region.
Field Study, Monitoring, Pollution, Aerocene, Human-environment relations, Air
- 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
- contributionBrian Holmes
The Watershed in Your Head
Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved.
Mapping, Monitoring, Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Water, Education, Ecology, Pollution, Participatory governance, Colonialism
- contributionMichael Allen
How Not What—Power, Time & Landscape
“Property is the worst form of pollution.” A lecture performance on the landscapes of the American Bottom.
Reflection, Pollution, Landscape
- projectSally Donovan
Suspended Solids
A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils.
Field Study, Sensing, Monitoring, Aesthetics, Pollution, Toxicity, Sedimentation, Water
- 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 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
- contributionAllan McKean
Telling time through lagoons of human waste at the Western Treatment Plant
The guiding question of this field report to Melbourne’s sewage treatment plant concerns the temporalities intrinsic to human-made infrastructures.
Waste, Future, Ecology, Pollution
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- contributionCaroline Picard, Rohini Devasher
The Video is Basket Is a Telescope
Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder.
Conversation, Perception, Pollution, Life
- 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
