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The Mississippi Project: Disclosing the Anthropocene in the American Heartland
No 62
If the Anthropocene truly marks a new geological epoch, then traces must be present everywhere. Geologists are searching layers of lake sediments, ice cores, and corals for stratigraphic evidence, while Earth system scientists collect integrated datasets of material and energetic fluxes in search of human fingerprints. Such a planetary-scale framework is key to understanding the significance of the ongoing shift in Earth history standing in contrast to mere environmental and regionally confined degradation. However, to understand how minor human interventions have triggered such change we also need to consider local sources and sites of transformation; global monitoring must combine ground-truthing methods and geoscientific assessments with local historical, geographic, and socioeconomic analysis.
Christoph Rosol
Thomas Turnbull
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Distillation in China: Elixirs, New Medicines, and Liquors
Distilling is thousands of years old but was originally confined to just a few areas, where it was probably independently invented. Later the tec
The Information Order of the Prussian Frontier, 1772–1806
In 1793 the Prussian government conducted a survey, called the Indaganda (things which must be hunted or tracked down), of towns in the province of So
The Sound of Books: West Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek between Postwar City Visions, Organizational Cybernetics, and Heterotopia
In 1978, West Berlin opened its impressive new State Library, the Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer Strasse, designed by Hans Scharoun around an open, 600
Acoustic Surveillance in Brazil
In Seeing Like a State (1998), James Scott argues that legibility is of paramount importance for modern statecraft. The creation of an administrative
Artisan Knowledge and Musical Instrument Making in South India
How do craftspeople know what they know? How is acoustic knowledge embodied in skills and labor? How do instrument makers relate to musicians as instr
Secondary Sounds: A History of Perception through Routine Experimental Practices in the Psychological Laboratory
Sometimes, the dull sound of tapping on a shoe box could be heard in the lab. At other times, much more complex installations of interconnected instru
Article by Postdoctoral Fellow Maria Avxentevskaya for The Conversation reprinted in MaxPlanckForschung
Go to ArticleArtificial “Listening”: From Fechner to Sensor Fusion
At the MPIWG, I will develop one chapter of a larger forthcoming book for MIT Press that focuses on how we make sense in our current age of artificial
Artist in Residence: World Factory
After food and shelter, clothing is probably the essential feature of human civilization, creating and representing economic, state, and soc
Cooperation Partners, BICC at the University of Manchester