Anthropocene

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.

This docudrama revolves around a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.

Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

David Moon and Leona Skelton who carried out the Oral History project about the man-made environment of Kielder discuss some of their findings.

The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.

The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.

An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.