Anthropocene

This started out as a response, but quickly grew into a small essay of its own. I was making an attempt to respond to Richard Crim’s two Crisis Reports: 23(Part One. What went wrong. A Climate Paradigm Postmortem or “How the Fossil Fuel Industry, the Republicans, and the Climate Science…

A best case outcome — Submitted: For life on Earth the Anthropocene is an existential threat (biodiversity loss and species extinction, i.e. …

Introducing our 2023 edition of Alive in the Anthropocene — Alive in the Anthropocene (AitA), our free series of online talks on humanity’s contemporary predicament, is in its third edition [1]. In 2021 we explored what Andri Snær Magnason called a mythology of the present. Last year my colleague Christophe Kempkes curated a series devoted to the interaction between a…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica — Jorge Eduardo Douglas Price, Universidad Nacional del Comahue Gianpasquale Preite, Università del Salento I. Modernity has resulted in a radical change in the paradigm of the relationship between humans and nature. From a political, philosophical, legal, and socio-anthropological perspective, a critical phase seems to have been reached. Human beings have…

Day 1 of the Intuitive Inter-species Communication Symposium — I heard about this symposium from my biomimicry class at UCI with Melina Angel last week, after she had assigned us an activity to communicate with another species. I found myself diving into the deep end of a mystical, colourful pool that I never knew existed. …

From Firenze University Press Journal: Ri-Vista — Linda Grisoli, DiAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Sapienza Università di Roma JieXi Goh, RMIT Alumnus and Landscape Architect, North Borneo (Sabah), Malesia Anthropocene The discovery of nuclear energy marked a new era for humanity. Nuclear epic officially began in the first forty years of the twentieth century (Sertorio, 2008)…

Brian Eno Soundtracks the Anthropocene in FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Forever Voiceless Edition) (2023) The man speaks! Or rather sings. Maybe a bit of both. Regardless, Brian Eno’s voice is present on FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (2022), which is, if not unheard of, still noteworthy. This fact is what distinguishes last year’s release from this year’s…

A poem on the quiet demise of insect life. A thousand thousand bug and flies, Buzzing, flying, landing in your eyes, This was the norm, it was a pestilence, It was nature’s enduring dominance. A hundred thousand bugs and flies, They seemed so many, who noticed their decline? …

Anthropocene enthusiasts celebrate humanity’s progress — On a 1 km2 grid, the human footprint, excluding Antarctica, now covers 95 percent of the land surface, meaning that as seen from satellite height, only 5 percent (e.g. most of Greenland) appears untouched. …