Method: Monitoring
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SPHERE. Study of the Planetary Human-Environment Relationship
The historical research project SPHERE focuses on one of the most comprehensive and complex governance issues in the contemporary world: humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and constraints.
Modeling, Monitoring, Human-environment relations, Ecology, Knowledge production, Complexity, Governance
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Unearthing the Present
What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Conversation, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Agency, Anthropos, Biosphere, Carbon, Climate change, Data, Deep time, Extraction, Ocean, Radioactivity, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy
- contributionNéstor Herran
Monitoring the Nuclear Anthropocene
Knowledge of the onset of the Anthropocene is intimately connected to nuclear technoscience on the one hand and to the governance of environmental problems, such as atmospheric pollution, on the other.
Case Study, Monitoring, Disaster, Epistemology, Ethics, Future, Governance, Technoscience, Scale
- contributionAdam Wickberg
Anthropogenic Markers as Environing Media
Media scholar Adam Wickberg outlines how knowledge about the environment and media technologies have always evolved in tandem; the history of anthropogenic markers can therefore be understood as a process of environing media.
Monitoring, Data, Computation, Epistemology, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Scale, Technosphere
- contributionAngela N. H. Creager
The Radioactive Footprint of the Anthropocene
Assessing the effects of artificial radioactivity on human bodies and natural environments has a special place in the history of risk regulation, and has provided a key basis for understanding and defining the anthropogenic danger to life on Earth.
Case Study, Monitoring, Disciplinarity, Ecology, Ethics, Toxicity, Radioactivity
- 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
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Work, Monitoring, Biodiversity, Ecology, Life, River journey, Geo-ecologies
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Calculation, Knowledge production, Landscape, Mud
- Field Noteunderhil
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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
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Climate change, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Slavery, Cosmologies, Air, Transport
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Teaching, Monitoring
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Environmental Justice, Data, Air
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Calculation, Climate change, Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Landscape, Risk
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Air, Geochemistry
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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West Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Monitoring, Resilience
- 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
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Modeling, Field Work, Monitoring, Settler Colonialism, Overburden, Substances, Colonialism
- 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
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Study, Teaching, Monitoring, Complexity, Cybernetics, Data, Education, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Modernity
- 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
- projectJohn Kim
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge.
Teaching, Storytelling, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Big data, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Water, Technoscience
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Sebastian Müllauer
Listening to the Mississippi
Using artistic underwater recordings, Listening to the Mississippi asks listeners to experience the river through sound.
Monitoring, Field Study, Experiment, Aesthetics, Water
- projectJaume Valentines-Álvarez, C.I.R.C.E, Staffan Müller-Wille
Seminar: Dating Datafication History, Epistemology and Politics of Big Data
This seminar is devoted to collectively discussing this global and ubiquitous entity of the Anthropocene in its social, gendered, and material contexts.
Monitoring, Big data, History, Governance
- projectAnthropocene Working Group
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations.
Monitoring, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Mapping, Modeling, Biosphere, Carbon, Ecology, Water, Holocene, Stratigraphy
- contributionGeorge Lewis
5. Rainbow Family
Composer, musicologist, and improviser George Lewis discusses Rainbow Family (1984), a groundbreaking work that employs proto-machine-listening software to analyze an improviser’s performance in real time, while generating both responses to the musician’s playing and independent behavior arising from the program’s processes.
Sound, Monitoring, Technosphere, Anthropology, Education, Technoscience
- contributionAna Dana Beroš, Matija Kralj
Geotrauma
Borders not only define political law, they also constitute geographic realities built of infrastructure, forging politics into the landscape.
Film, Monitoring, Technosphere, Infrastructure
- contributionKim Rygiel
Citizenship and Technologies of Bordering
Political scientist Kim Rygiel investigates the difficult values that underlie the enforcement of who belongs in a political structure and who does not.
Case Study, Field Work, Monitoring, Technosphere, Governance, 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
- contributionOlivier Hamant
Suboptimalism
Biology is resilient because it is suboptimal at all scales. The technosphere, however, seems to take the route of increased optimization. Are we doomed?
Reflection, Monitoring, Modeling, Biosphere, Computation, Contingency, Big data, System
- contributionFinn Müller-Hansen
Economic Framing: Environmental Governance and Teaching Pluralist Economics
What are future decision-makers learning at college today? And how will it effect the direction the Anthropocene is taking? Making the case for a change in the teaching of economics.
Reflection, Monitoring, Teaching, Economy, Human-environment relations, Technosphere, Governance
- projectBernard Geoghegan, Stéphane Grumbach, Orit Halpern, Olivier Hamant, Robert Mitchell, Mark Hansen, Erich Hörl
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life.
Experiment, Teaching, Conversation, Modeling, Monitoring, Sensing, Case Study, Complexity, Computation, Big data, Technosphere, Technoscience, System, Data, Governance, Sharing economy
- 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
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jennifer Gabrys, Donald MacKenzie, Birgit Schneider, Mushon Zer-Aviv
Datum: On the Calculus of the Technosphere
Data defines the relationship of the technosphere to itself and the world around it. But where is it? How does it rework the body politic or our biological substratum itself?
Conversation, Engagement, Monitoring, Teaching, Storytelling, Big data, Calculation, Autonomy, Complexity, Computation, Cybernetics, Data, Engineering, Infrastructure, Perception, Model, Socio-ecological design, Technosphere
