Keyword: Wisdom
- contributionAdam Bobbette
A Javanese Anthropocene?
Geographer and writer Adam Bobbette describes the reciprocal and porous relationship between society and geology in early twentieth-century Java, and Julia Adeney Thomas argues that the novelty of the Anthropocene lies in the shift from local geology to the chronicling of the Earth system
Consensus Building, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Epistemology, History, Landscape, Wisdom
- contributionEgo Ahaiwe Sowinski
Slowness in Urgency, Urgently Slow
What does it mean to be urgently slow in this undeniably urgent conjuncture? Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski advocates for intentional slowness as a strategy for resolution and healing.
Reflection, Sound, Sensing, Care, Habits, Human-environment relations, Climate change, Wisdom
- event
Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial
A look into some of the imaginative and dedicated ways that artists and culture bearers from across the state of Minnesota are engaging with water.
Engagement, Conversation, Field Study, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Water, Ecology, Wisdom, Human-environment relations
- contributionJoe Underhill
Navigating the Anthropocene River
On immersive, field-based education and an exploration of the (dis)comforts of an approach Anthropocene River Travelers describe as “being at home-in-the-world.”
Teaching, Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Sensing, Education, Agency, Habits, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Water, Wisdom
- contributionShanai Matteson
Riverine
What does it mean to be “riverine”? A collage by artist, writer, and activist Shanai Matteson
Storytelling, Reflection, History, Water, Wisdom, Violence, Inequality, Indigenous Rights, Habits, Aesthetics
- contributionCaroline Picard
Bound with Bright Beautiful Things
A consideration of human exceptionalism that draws inspiration from Panchatantra, the famous collection of animal fables.
Storytelling, Deep time, Human-animal relations, Cosmologies, Wisdom
- contributionJohn Tresch
Anthropotechnics for the Anthropocene
Historian John Tresch looks at the history of modern science from the angle of spiritual athleticism, ascetic practices and epistemic virtues.
Reflection, Sensing, Conversation, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Wisdom
- contributionNavjot Altaf Mohamedi, Christopher Reznich, Ravi Agarwal, Perrin Selcer, Marc Herbst
Entanglement
In order to rearrange our mental landscapes, we must learn not to pull on one end of the thread, but to engage the knot as a whole. Instructions for a complex relationship role-play.
Teaching, Reflection, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Wisdom, glossary
- projectcontinent., Adania Shibli, Bernard Geoghegan, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Alice Cannava, Lionel Ruffel
Knowledge × Sharing
Communicating, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Consensus, Education, Equality, Knowledge transformation, Wisdom, Adaptation, Care, Aesthetics
- projectJohn Tresch, Jeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang, Sasha Engelmann, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Alex Martinis Roe, Melanie Sehgal, Roman Brinzanik, Deborah Haaksman, Rebekka Ladewig, Hendrik Weber
Wisdom Techniques
The interlacing between knowledge and the technosphere has a very subtle yet decisive dimension: the collectively ingrained practices and routines that are the preconditions for adequately responding to the non-human dynamics of a world in transition. What are the regimes of sense training, ascetic modes of inquiry, and techniques of mental cultivation that let us learn and understand something? What might be needed to reshape and modify these in light of the predicament of the Anthropocene?
Communicating, Conversation, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Aerocene, Adaptation, Anthropos, Care, Consensus, Cosmologies, Disciplinarity, Embodiment, Habits, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Scale, Scenario, Wisdom
- contributionPaz Guevara
Patagonia
The Patagonian fences as political actors of division, limitation, control and order
Aesthetics, Biosphere, Wisdom
