This publication presents the research result of 'the Anthropocene Project' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. 

In the Anthropocene era - a geological age of our own making, what understood to be nature is made by man. A new perspective is needed to look at the dynamics of a new epoch. These volumes offer writings that discuss the topic through the three approaches: grain, vapor and ray - the particulate, the volatile and the radiant. Each of the first three volumes is devoted to one of the three textures, in which contemporary writers respond to historical writings. The fourth volume serves as a guide to the project as a whole.

'Grain, vapor and ray are three mundane textures through which we (re)imagine Earth-shaping processes. As a thought exercise that bridges matter with matters, the three capture a composite image of material flows, energetic conversions, and human activities. In the situations emerging out of the metabolic dynamics between Humanity and Earth, at times invoked as "the Anthropocene," these three textures resonate everywhere transformation and perturbation are sounded: granular, vaporous, radiant. It is not possible to imagine one without sensing the rest, thus their entanglement weaves a continuous, flowing fabric informed by (our) histories of imagination. our variation that emerges out of such flux is this book.' - from book flap

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English

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2015

No of pages

1008

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9780262527415

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1

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anthology

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Grain

A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects (1968) - Robert SMITHSON

Uncovering the Non-Site: Robert Smithson on Art, Layers, and Time - Sverker SORLIN

The Importance of Dust: A Source of Beauty and Essential to Life (1889) - Alfred Russel WALLACE

Think Small - Gloria MEYNEN

Trade-Wind Dust and Blood Rain (1844–49) - Christian Gottfried EHRENBERG

Change in the Air - Jan ZALASIEWICZ

On South-Swedish Peat Bogs (1916) - Lennart VON POST

The Seeds of Synchronicity - Geoffrey C. BOWKEY

Oxygen Isotopes in Nature and in the Laboratory (1948) - Harold Clayton UREY

Reconstructing the Methods for Reformatting Oxygen Isotopes in Nature and in the Laboratory as Oxygen Tops Nature Oratory for Optical Character Recognition Scanners - Kodwo ESHUN

The Process of Self-Reinforcement (1919) - Walter BEHRMANN

After Behrmann: Three Short Tales of Self-Reinforcement - Tim INGOLD

On the Nature of Things (1st century BCE) - Titus Lucretius CARUS

In-visible Inter-actions - Bettina VISMANN

D’Alembert’s Dream (1769) - Denis DIDEROT

Bees, Exhibitions, and the Anthropocene - Dorothea von HANTELMANN

The Aleph (1945) - Jorge Luis BORGES

Measuring Infinity - STRATAGRIDS

Principles of Dance and Movement Notation (1956) Kinetography. Labanotation (1928) - Rudolf VON LABAN

The Sphere - Cecelia WATSON

Kushim: Clay Tablet (c.3200 – 3000 BCE)

Learning from Kushim about the Origin of Writing and Farming - Jürgen RENN

John Maynard Keynes: Proposals for an International Clearing Union (1943) House of Lords Debates, May 18, 1943 - John Maynard KEYNES

The Bodélé Declaration - Adrian LAHOUD

Plastic (1957) - Roland BARTHES

Clay - Allen S. WEISS

The Accursed Share (1949) - Georges BATAILLE

Why were there tigers? - Etienne TURPIN

Vapor

The Cares of a Family Man (1920) - Franz KAFKA

The Shapes of Odradek and the Edges of Perception - Jane BENNETT

Hippocrates: Breaths (5th century BCE)

Breathing In, Breathing Out - Elizabeth A. POVINELLI

Blood, Sea (1967) - Italo CALVINO

Blood, Waves - Stefan HELMREICH

On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases (1842) - Nathaniel B. WARD

Stratoshield - Paulo TAVARES

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur: The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (1589–90)

The Fortress is Adjacent to the Mountains - Natasha GINWALA

US Strategic Bombing Survey: Integration of Germany’s Process Industries (1945)

Refinery and Catalysis - Benjamin STEININGER

Haber-Bosch Process (c.1909)

The Monsters - Bernd SCHERER

Machine Tools (1940) - Richard Buckminster FULLER

Ventilated Prose - Christina VAGT

Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973) - Horst W. J. RITTEL, Melvin M. WEBBER

Working well with Wickedness - John LAW

The Steady State and Ecological Salvation: A Thermodynamic Analysis (1977) - Nicholas GEORGESCU-ROEGEN

Securing the Planetary Boundaries - Elmar ALTVATER

On Thomas Bayes: Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances (1763) - Richard PRICE

The Fabulous Five - Armin HAAS

Letter to Arrhenius (1902) - Ludwig BOLTZMANN

Please Be Probable, Darling - Dietmar DATH

Mercury: or, the Secret and Swift Messenger (1641) - John WILKINS

Invisible Ark: John Wilkins, from Mercury to Real Character - John TRESCH

On Physical Lines of Force (1861–62) - James Clerk MAXWELL

+91 80 6771 0794 - Goldin+Senneby, Jo ANDERSON

Ray

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) - Edwin Abbott ABBOTT

The Restless Sky - Margarida MENDES

Ethics (1677) - Baruch SPINOZA

Reflections on Spinoza’s Ethics, Part II, Prop. 11–13 - Akeel BILGRAMI

Awareness through Movement, Lesson 11 (1972) - Moshé FELDERNKRAIS

Rehearsal Habit - Torsten BLUME

Method of Producing Animated Motion Pictures (1948) - Douglas CROCKWELL

Grey Matter and Colored Wax - Flora LYSEN

Seminar III: The Psychoses (1957) - Jacques LACAN

Forced Desynchrony - Josh BERSON

Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham: The Optics (1011–21)

Parallax - Natascha Sadr HAGHIGHIAN

Bardo Thodol (8th century CE)

Liberation Through Hearing in the Planetary Transition: Funerary Practices in Twenty-Second-Century Mangalayana Buddhism - Bronislaw SZERSZYNSKI

Theory of Pictorial Formation (1921) Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925) - Paul KLEE

Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method - Erich HORL

The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962) - George KUBLER

George Kubler and the Second Hand - Molly NESBIT

On the Energy Balance of the Earth (1885) - Heinrich HERTZ

Like an Eternal Eighth Day - Ayreen ANASTAS, Rene GABRI

The Energetic Imperative (1912) - Wilhelm OSTWALD

The Anthropocene: A Process-State on the Edge of Geohistory? - Peter SLOTERDIJK

Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) - Thomas PYNCHON

Pynchon and Electro-Mysticism - Friedrich KITTLER

Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links (1990) - John Archibald WHEELER

The Wheeler Refractions: Science Fiction, Science Faction, Parlor Games, Physics, Rap, It, the Bit, and the Real - Dorion SAGAN

Mundus Subterraneus (1664) - Athanasius KIRCHER

Matter and Information - Michel SERRES

Manual

Preface

MUD: All worlds, all times!

Oracle

Earth

Creature

Grain Vapor Ray

Overview of Volumes

Register of Terms

Register of Authors

The Editors

The Anthropocene Project 2013/2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Grain Vapor Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene
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