Keyword: Risk
- contributionAndy Cundy, Brian Holmes
Exchange on the Half Life of the Nuclear Age
What are the prospects of living among radioactive substances as military spending on atomic weapons increases and some countries invest in and maintain nuclear power on their paths to “net zero” CO₂ emissions?
Conversation, Reflection, Radioactivity, Risk, Climate change
- contributionAndy Cundy, Colin Waters, Irka Hajdas, Yoshiki Saito
Radioactive Fallout as a Marker for the Anthropocene
Field Work, Radioactivity, Critical materials, Deep time, Disaster, Scale, Risk
- contributionJeffrey Treffinger, John Koeferl
Uncalculated Risk
A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Water, Engineering, Environmental Justice, Risk, Local knowledge, Disaster
- project
Anthropocene Campus Venice
Taking Venice as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics in the water city and beyond.
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Sensing, Field Work, Water, Adaptation, Climate change, Flood, Human-environment relations, Risk
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Ocean, Risk
- Field NoteauroraAnthropocene Bodies::Disability Justice::Crip Leadership
One of the frameworks that's been absent in our gathering is that of disability justice, and it impacts how we function as a community of inquiry--the questions we do and don't ask, the ways we interpret and digest information, and how we do or don't take our own and each other's physical and emotional needs (which capitalism/all related oppressions have taught us to view as irrelevant) into account.
I'm a survivor of a lot of harmful chemical exposures, including early childhood pesticides, and most recently the toxic orange smoke of the 2017 California wildfires, which left me with injured lungs. Yesterday, Tuesday, I spent the afternoon with my group in Cancer Alley, breathing extremely polluted air. Although I didn't feel sick at the time, I know it taxed my system. Today, when at least three members of our seminar lit up cigarettes within a few feet of me in the first moments of our walking tour, my body reacted with burning lung pain, difficulty breathing, nausea and headache. I had to go home.
Many hours later, my body is still in a flare up of symptoms, a common event for people with environmental illness, so I won't be able to make my group's journey to tribal lands tomorrow. But I will participate from afar. I will follow the field notes threads (pictures, please!) but I think my most useful contribution will be to write about why disability justice is an essential framework to include in our collective work. I will also attempt a crash course on access/inclusion and how ablist assumptions about productivity, efficiency, affordability and the individual right to contaminate shared spaces have made the Campus an uneven playing field. My inability to attend tomorow's field trip is not a personal misfortune. It's an illustration. It's an anthropocenic event. Stay tuned. Aurora
PS. Health is not on the list of keywords!
Some resources:
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/curriculum
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer#undefined
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Embodiment, Human-environment relations, Metabolism, Risk
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Garyville, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Case Study, Capitalism, History, Life, Inequality, Risk, Slavery, Plantation, Oil, Embodied research, refinery, Whiteness
- Field NoteAmalia
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure, Scale, Sedimentation, Risk
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Equality, Representation, Race, Risk, Slavery, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Calculation, Climate change, Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Landscape, Risk
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Genoa, Wisconsin, USA
Reflection, Field Work, Architecture, Disaster, Economy, Flood, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Risk
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Affect, Care, Complexity, Infrastructure, Perception, Pollution, Risk
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Hampton, Illinois, USA
Mapping, Affect, Complexity, Energy, Risk, Lightning
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Jorg Sieweke, Jelagat Cheruiyot, Aron Chang, Nikiwe Solomon, Tanya James, Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Greta Gladney, Richard Hindle
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar.
Case Study, Teaching, Engineering, Evolution, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Complexity, Ecology, Disaster, Technoscience, Technosphere, Risk, Sedimentation
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Michael Orr, Marylee Orr, Myung Ae Choi, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Buhm Soon Park, Wilma Subra, Louisiana Landmarks Society (LLS), Jeffrey Treffinger, Wendi Moore O'Neal, Daneeta Loretta Jackson
Seminar: Risk/Equity
The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences.
Case Study, Teaching, Disaster, Ethics, Capitalism, Care, Participatory governance, Violence, Environmental Justice, Risk, Inequality
- project
1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- projectYoneda Lemma, Josh Berson, Benjamin Bratton, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Orit Halpern, Giuseppe Longo, Inigo Wilkins, Seth Bullock, Helena Shomar, Elena Esposito, Luis Campos, Alexander R. Galloway, Sascha Pohflepp
Chance
Human culture has been a culture of chance all along. Around 1948, a new configuration of chance practices becomes operative, and high-quality (pseudo-)random numbers have become indispensable for simulating the design of nuclear weapons, calculating the future of human populations, and modeling the climate. How do we recognize the differences or similarities of these two forms of employing chance tools for making predictions?
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Contingency, Disaster, Games, Knowledge transformation, Resilience, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technosphere
- contributionFlorian Goldmann
Risk As Immaterial Raw Material
In this artistic formulation, Florian Goldmann makes popular risk indexes fungible, specifically their conflation of natural disaster with financial disaster.
Case Study, Reflection, Risk, Technosphere, Economy, Capitalism
- contributionMatthijs Kouw
The Risk Equipment Deserves More Credit: Modeling, Epistemic Opacity, and Immersion
Through examining the way hydraulic engineers employ and tinker with computational models for managing water-related risks, science and technology scholar Matthijs Kouw argues for a more reflected stand against such modeling practice.
Reflection, Intervention, Risk, Model
