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Quotidian Anthropocene: Structured Fieldnotes
DEUTERO: What capacity (and incapacity) is there to recognize and attend to “the Anthropocene” in this setting? How might academic projects contribute to or scaffold this capacity?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:43pm
META: How is “the Anthropocene” – by this, or some other name – talked and worried about in this setting? What modes of communication carry and occlude engagement with anthropocenics? What discursive histories shape contemporary articulations?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:47pm
MACRO: What economic activities have contributed to anthropocenics in this setting? How are future economies imagined and planned? What laws and policy have addressed anthropocenics?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:48pm
MESO: Who are stakeholders in this quotidian Anthropocene and how do they relate to each other? What forms of political organization have emerged to address and weather the Anthropocene?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:48pm
MICRO: What labors have contributed to and go on within this quotidian Anthropocene? What practices (for flood management or controlling toxic contamination, for example) have anthropocenics provoked?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:49pm
BIO: How are bodies in this setting laced and burdened with anthropocenics? How are anthropocenic bodies racialized bodies?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:50pm
NANO: What psychologies have anthropocenics produced in this setting and how is this refiguring what people want and consider possible? What thought styles and language ideologies are in play?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:50pm
EXDU: Who is imagining and planning for anthropocenic futures in this setting, with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests? What educational programs -- environmental, civic, media, STEM and so on -- are addressing anthrhopocenics?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:50pm
DATA: What data infrastructure supports recognition, characterization and response to anthropocenics in this setting? Who has access to relevant data and sense-making tools?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:51pm
TECHNO: What industries and infrastructure have produced anthropocenics in this setting? What infrastructure has been built in response? How, for example, has energy transition and climate change adaptation been pursued?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:51pm
ECO-ATMO: What ecosystems in this setting are depended on, protected, or compromised, and how is this recognized (or not)? How are global warming and other atmospheric currents stressing local landscapes?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:51pm
GEO: How has intensive human activity marked, transmuted, destabilized and harmed this setting? What levels of lead and other metals are in the soil? Where are hazardous waste stored?
Submitted by
James Adams
on March 7, 2019 - 10:52pm
