Listening to the Mississippi
Listening to the Mississippi is an iterative project that has unfolded since 2013 and currently manifests as a sound composition and traveling listening station. Using underwater recordings gathered in 2015 by artists Monica Haller and Sebastian Müllauer that span the river from the headwaters to the Gulf, listeners are invited to orient themselves to the river through their sense of sound, rather than by sight alone. (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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? (...)
The Watershed in Your Head
Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved. (...)
Suspended Solids
A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils. (...)
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge. (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
Geotrauma
Borders not only define political law, they also constitute geographic realities built of infrastructure, forging politics into the landscape. (...)
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? (...)
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. (...)
