Method: Communicating
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Anthropocene Campus Chicago
Did the world just drop the ball on climate change?
How do we live through the consequences?Join us for a 4-day gathering that brings together artists, scientists, activists, and curious minds to co‐create new imaginaries, tools, and modes of learning in our rapidly shifting world.
Engagement, Experiment, Communicating, Teaching, Field Work, Intervention
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives.
Engagement, Communicating, Teaching, Sensing, Intervention, Cosmologies, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionBernd M. Scherer, Ravi Agarwal
Curating Worlds
Bernd M. Scherer, Ravi Agarwal, and Ranjit Hoskote discuss the transformation of the HKW into a dynamic forum for transcultural themes and urgencies.
Communicating, Engagement, Reflection, Knowledge production, Scale, Care, Complexity
- projectRavi Agarwal
Literature and Conversations: State of Nature 2022
Curator of literature Ranjit Hoskote conceptualised a program of conversations with prominent writers, poets, and essayists for State of Nature: New Natures, 2022.
Communicating, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Scale, Knowledge production, Biodiversity, Agency, Human-animal relations
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Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange 2022–
An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf.
Engagement, Teaching, Storytelling, Sensing, Conversation, Communicating, Water, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, Race, Extraction
- projectKoki Tanaka, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Nina Jäger, Lital Khaikin, Ravi Agarwal, Myung Ae Choi, Margarida Mendes, Claire Pentecost, Fernando Silva e Silva, Rebecca Snedeker, Nikiwe Solomon, Maria Chehonadskih, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Adania Shibli, Orit Halpern, Valentina Karga, Jahnavi Phalkey, Nishant Shah, John Kim, Simon Turner, Patricia Reed, Mark Williams, Mohammad Al Attar
Where is the Planetary? Day 3
The search for the coordinates, overlaps, convergences, and tensions that arise when myriad cosmologies converge around a common intent.
Communicating, Engagement, Experiment, Modeling, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Scale, Care
- projectKoki Tanaka, L. Sasha Gora, Shadreck Chirikure, Patricia Reed, Fernando Silva e Silva, Simon Turner, Mi You, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Jahnavi Phalkey, Nikiwe Solomon, Jenna Sutela, Mark Williams, Lisa Baraitser, Orit Halpern, Valentina Karga, Margarida Mendes, Nishant Shah, Maria Chehonadskih, John Kim, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Adania Shibli, Jamie Allen, Ravi Agarwal, Myung Ae Choi, Paul Boshears, Nina Jäger, Lital Khaikin, Claire Pentecost, Rebecca Snedeker, Mohammad Al Attar, Kai van Eikels
Where is the Planetary? Day 2
The search for a common planetary practice becomes tangible, as the five research questions are linked to a series of activities.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Engagement, Experiment, Modeling, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Care, Scale
- projectKoki Tanaka, Lisa Baraitser, L. Sasha Gora, Jan Zalasiewicz, Jahnavi Phalkey, Patricia Reed, Fernando Silva e Silva, Nikiwe Solomon, Jenna Sutela, Simon Turner, Mi You, Mark Williams, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Ravi Agarwal, Maria Chehonadskih, Myung Ae Choi, John Kim, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Claire Pentecost, Adania Shibli, Rebecca Snedeker, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Nina Jäger, Lital Khaikin, Kai van Eikels
Where is the Planetary? Day 1
In an experimental setting designed by artist Koki Tanaka, scientists, scholars, and artists share various perspectives on planetary practice.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Engagement, Experiment, Modeling, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Scale, Care
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionMacarena Gómez-Barris
An Earth Being Platform
Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present.
Reflection, Communicating, Extraction, Settler Colonialism, Care, Capitalism, Violence
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A Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene
Where is the Planetary? curatorial statement
Engagement, Communicating, Experiment, Storytelling, Scale, Agency
- contributionThe Mont Pelerin Rewrite
Rewriting Climate Politics
How are the relationships between state, market, natural environments, and citizens understood? And how does this create or foreclose political and ethical agency?
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Case Study, Intervention, Modeling, Governance, Participatory governance, History, Policy, Future, Climate change, Economy
- contributionNishant Shah, Felipe Castelblanco
A Mirage Mirror
Artist Felipe Castelblanco and researcher Nishant Shah propose that communication must be freed from its desire for intelligibility and claims to knowledge.
Communicating, Conversation, Indigenous Rights, Media, Technosphere, Human-environment relations
- contributionJoe Underhill
On Translation and Agency on an Anastomosed River
Joe Underhill reflects on the political utility of the language used in academia and the public sphere, and how to translate deeper understandings of the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Communicating, Conversation, Field Work, Water, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism
- contributionAstrida Neimanis
How to Talk About the Weather
Astrida Neimanis describes how building, maintaining and repairing social infrastructures are essential aspects of climate change mitigation.Communicating, Conversation, Intervention, Reflection, Affect, Care, Climate change
- contributionSarah Lewison, Lynn Peemoeller, Andrew Yang
Encountering Para-Human Species
Non-human species sometimes mediate societal processes of marginalization, but they can also play a role in solidarity. What might we learn from other species?
Communicating, Human-animal relations, Affect, Agriculture, Biodiversity
- contributionNishant Shah, Felipe Castelblanco
Interview: Communicating
Seminar moderators Nishant Shah and Felipe Castelblanco reflect on how communicating in the Anthropocene entails making sense of an intellectual and sensorial force.
Communicating, Conversation, Complexity, Epistemology
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Monica Moses Haller, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Brian Kirkbride, Margarida Mendes, John Kim, Tia-Simone Gardner, Andrea Carlson, Jenny Schmid, Marlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer, Isabelle Carbonell, Jennifer Colten, Abbéy Odunlami, Anna van Voorhis, Monique Verdin, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Joe Underhill, Corinne Teed, Heather Parrish
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Archiving, Case Study, Communicating, Conversation, Field Study, Film, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Sound, Water, Carbon, Care, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Extraction, Race, Infrastructure
- projectFelipe Castelblanco, Nishant Shah
Seminar: Communicating
In the seminar, the practice of communication was explored as one in flux to address some of the underlying power structures that shape communicative practices.
Communicating, Case Study, Conversation, Engagement
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Case Studies and Seminars: The Shape of a Practice
The week-long The Shape of a Practice event, which took place in October 2020, was a product of a diverse collection of case studies.
Sensing, Reflection, Conversation, Case Study, Consensus Building, Archiving, Communicating, Agency, Network, Complexity, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Topology
- projectKatrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer, Peter K. Haff, Jürgen Renn, Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Tresch, Luciana Parisi, Louis Chude-Sokei, Esther Leslie, Kathryn Yusoff, Rosi Braidotti, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Lydia H. Liu, Alexander Ilichevsky
Technosphäre Publication
The German publication Technosphäre collects contributions thinking through the conditions and evolution of this new Earth system player. Included here are two selections from the book in English translation: the editorial introduction and a conversation between Peter K. Haff and Jürgen Renn.
Conversation, Mapping, Storytelling, Communicating, Adaptation, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Critical materials, Deep time, Technosphere, Future, Disciplinarity, Knowledge infrastructure
- contributionOn Barak
The Shipworm and the Telegraph
How did a confluence of telegraphy, shipworms, colonialism, and imported Malay rubber transform the Arabic language into its modern form?
Reflection, Monitoring, Communicating, History, Technosphere, Settler Colonialism
- contributionBirgit Schneider
Telecommunications. A micro history
Media scholar Birgit Schneider takes us into the history of early submarine telegraphy cables, moving through their material construction and the subsequent organic and inorganic entanglements that connect them.
Communicating, Infrastructure, Ocean
- 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
- projectPeter L. Galison, Sander van der Leeuw, Claire Pentecost, Sebastian Vehlken
The Scenario Mode
The scenario has become a mode of knowledge of the first order. In fact, “running in scenario mode” seems to be the way in which contemporary existence, through the vision of this exploratory practice and tool, exemplifies learning and researching in and on the Anthropocene itself. This evening deals with the trans-methodical arrangement of scenario building and analysis and its specific formatting through institutional and media-based infrastructures.
Communicating, Film, Storytelling, Teaching, Engagement, Adaptation, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Computation, Deep time, Disaster, Governance, Games, Policy, Radioactivity, Scenario, Waste
- 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
- projectLino Camprubí, Zachary Caple, Gregory T. Cushman, Heather Davis, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Arno Rosemarin, Frank Uekötter, Katrina Schwartz
Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere
Within the technosphere, earth becomes energy, people become populations and space becomes sphere. But how to make visible this network of flows coursing through our bodies?
Communicating, Intervention, Conversation, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Anthropos, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Complexity, Commodities, Embodiment, Energy, Landscape, Mining, Waste, Violence, Technosphere
- 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
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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
