Aug. 8, 2024
Anthropocene Campus Latin America 2024
The Earth is no longer the same and we need to relearn how to inhabit it. In December 2024, the first Latin American edition of the Anthropocene Campus will take place, an event that for a decade has brought together activists, artists, educators and scientists to build and share knowledge and skills for our time. For a week, we will think, dialogue, learn and feel the intellectual and material challenges of the Anthropocene in activities that address the here and now of this transformation. We (...)
Jun. 6, 2023
Mesa Contaminações: confusão das fronteiras [Campus Antropoceno Brasil]
Com o desenvolvimento histórico das ideias de indivíduo e autonomia, construímos um mundo com limites bem estabelecidos, ainda que toda entidade mantenha uma relação constitutiva com seu entorno. Em tempos de catástrofe climática, quando observamos a proliferação de efeitos locais em escala global, precisamos nos perguntar quais as conexões que se estabelecem entre a diversidade de seres, borrando fronteiras antes fortemente estabelecidas. Que tipos de contágios e contaminações povoam o horizont (...)
Jun. 6, 2023
The Aesthetic Origins of the Anthropocene: An Interview with Jeremy Bolen, Emily Eliza Scott, and Andrew Yang
Jeremy Bolen, Heather Davis, Emily Eliza Scott, and Andrew Yang pooled their efforts to lead Sensing the Insensible: Aesthetics In, Through, and Against the Anthropocene, a group seminar at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s (HKW’s) 2016 Anthropocene Curriculum: The Technosphere Issue. In the following conversation, I meet with three of the four conveners to explore how aesthetic and political concerns are embroiled in conceptions of the Anthropocene and how we determine it’s origin. (...)