The Anthropocene Slam: Mutiny, Play, and the Everyday
The recent Anthropocene Slam at UW-Madison suggested that play might be a key strategy for survival in the “Age of Humans.”
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Seven Ways to Sense the Anthropocene
Seven projects that help us to better sense—visualize, hear, count—ecological and social transformations in the “Age of Humans.”
The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea
Has Homo sapiens become a geological actor altering the conditions of life so forcefully that our impacts are being written into the fossil record? If so, what are the implications for how we imagine human history, ethics, power, and responsibility?
The Queer Ecologies of the Tambass Wetlands
Richard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize the Tambass wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity, impermanence, and survivance.
Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins
Nat Mesnard’s new game, Assemblage, allows players to build and role-play an imaginary multispecies universe. Even more interesting than the creatures themselves: the stunning meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene.
Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette
In this bilingual podcast, Brenda Becette talks with Bri Meyer about the role of fiction in our dystopic reality. Becette’s short stories avenge women, children, and environment.
Poetic Encounters Across Borders
Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.
Faculty Favorites: (Re)Imagine Environmental Futures with These Books, Films, and Exhibits
A gift for navigating our present: Academic faculty recommend new and old books, films, and exhibits that critically reflect on environmental futures and futurity.
The Colonial Depths of Seasteading
Ivey Wexler draws parallels between libertarian’s interest in seasteading to oceanic colonialism in the nineteenth century, especially as Robert Stevenson illustrated in The Ebb-Tide.
Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions
How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.
