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"Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene"
In this commentary, Stefan Helmreich considers how Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, has recently been leveraged into commentaries upon the Anthropocene, and how the image has been adapted to speak to the contemporary human-generated global oceanic crisis.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
Exhibition chapter
“A huge variety of possibilities”: Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen on his life, his career in research, and his views on the Anthropocene idea | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This interview with Paul Crutzen is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Exhibition chapter
Mountains, Glaciers, and Climate | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition, “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible in the Natural Laboratories of Chile’s Extreme Zones | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
The introduction to the virtual exhibition “From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.”