- Kat Austen
- Nigel Clark
- Kristine L. DeLong
- Anna Echterhölter
- Desiree Foerster
- Victor Galaz
- Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
- Katrin Klingan
- Myriel Milićević
- Giulia Rispoli
- Christoph Rosol
- Susan Schuppli
- Karolina Sobecka
- Liz Thomas
- Alexandra Toland
- Simon Turner
- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Clemens Winkler
- Jens Zinke
Evidence Ensembles Publication
The publication Evidence Ensembles (2024), part of the Publication series The New Alphabet, is an experimental collage of perspectives on the material witnesses of planetary change. The contributions and discursive constellations in this volume set up a conversation among geologists, historians, philosophers, and artists. How does humankind’s global fingerprint appear in earthly strata? How are human materials classified, and how do human structures compare to biological ones? What confines temporal data and what politicizes earthly matters?
The earth is experiencing the first stage of the Anthropocene: a highly disruptive transitional period of “global weirding” within which established ecological, climatic, geochemical and biological patterns are changing radically and in some cases are threatened with collapse. Material evidence for this planetary transition is abundant and mounting. To secure future habitability, other forms of evidence need to be added: the human aptitude to learn and correct itself and the accommodation of cosmologies that allow for interdependency and care. Evidence Ensembles is an experimental collage of perspectives on the material witnesses of planetary change, their reconstruction and their calling on humanity.
Information
Publication series Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet), Volume 24
Editors: Christoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, and Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig
ca. 90 pages, German and English edition
color illustrations, paperback with folded dust cover
ISBN DE: 978-3-95905-663-2
ISBN EN: 978-3-95905-664-9
Price: 10 €
Available at bookstores and online in English and German editions.
Table of contents
Christoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, and Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Introduction
Victor Galaz and Simon Turner in conversation:
Material and Immaterial Traces
Who Defines the Anthropocene?
How political is the Stratigraphic Anthropocene?
Anna Echterhölter
Human Mineral Classification: Taxonomy, Totemism, and the Technofossils of the Anthropocene
Kat Austen, Nigel Clark, Kristine DeLong and Jens Zinke in conversation:
On Human and Coral Structures
Coral Times
Susan Schuppli and Liz Thomas in conversation:
Ice Core Temporalities
Reconstructions of the Unseen
Carbon Aesthetics Group
Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks: Aesthetics and the Anthropocene
Nigel Clark
Anthropogenic Fire as the Hinge Between Earth System and Strata
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Slow Accumulation, Sudden Violence
Illustrations and Design
Porcelain color plates by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817)
Typographic design by Olaf Nicolai with Malin Gewinner and Hannes Drißner
