Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.

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.

The end of mankind is almost over: a short film on de-colonized futures.

A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.

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.

A mythologized Uranium enrichment facility in Honeywell sets the scene for radioisotopes that are key markers for determining the Anthropocene.

A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene.

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.

Is the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene a fundamental crisis of modernity?

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?

Bogdanov, Platonov, Haraway, and Robinson: An unexpected canon for a theory for the Anthropocene

What does it mean to become aerosolar? Field notes from Berlin

Becoming an embodied researcher requires training.

Enlarging the potentiality of the technosphere. Renzo Taddei recatures the seminar’s discussions and endeavors.

How can we envision future life-forms? With the help of an overhead projector and paper cutouts we enter the anthropocenic version of Plato’s cave.

When I close my eyes, I do not feel gravity, and hence I am in the world without gravity. If I am in the world without gravity, what I am doing must be floating. One basis for the new ethics in the Anthropocene.

It is a chemical element already being used to regulate the mood of bipolar patients, what role will it play in balancing the volatile moods of sun and wind? A tour de force through the wonderland of Lithium.

2027 once was the year when the first manned space-travel mission to Mars were planned. This film recalls the past of this mission: Biosphere 2, a closed self-sustaining environment experiment held in 1991 in the Arizona desert.

If the human capacity to own property bestows political agency, independence, and even personhood upon the owner, what if a tree is given this same capacity?

Alongside the handbook, a pair of practical applications has been conceived to substantiate the “Valuing Nature” issue.

A conceptualization of the human‒nature‒technology nexus needs to examine the uneven geographies and power geometries of the Anthropocene epoch. Satellites are a case in point.

Anthropocene Reinsurance Corporation Investors’ Prospectus: Monetizing tomorrow’s risks ‒ today