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Seeing Ghosts of the Anthropocene

October 20, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

This week in our First Year Seminar, The Planet We Have Made, we have been making our way through the incredible book, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Among the topics we have discussed are how to see the ghosts of the world in which we live—the connections between the dead historical pasts and the living world in which we find ourselves. How is it possible to see the ancestors—the beings and animals and relationships—that move across the landscapes […]

Categories: Anthropocene, Haunting • Tags: ghosts

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Making String Figures Amid the Troubles (on Zoom)

April 9, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

In Staying with the Trouble (2016), Donna Haraway offers a figure which combines a number methods of thinking thoughts and telling stories together in ways that emphasize a shared nature of giving and receiving, of participation, of crafting, tracing and following. They are ways of connecting across species and space together—that sometimes work, sometimes fail, are active and at times hold still. The figure, which she describes with the letters SF evokes multiple practices which address in imaginative and creative […]

Categories: Anthropocene, COVID Spring • Tags: Donna Haraway, SF, Staying with the Trouble, string figures

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…but what About the Sea Turtles?

February 26, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

Yesterday in this semester’s anthropology senior seminar, Anthropology at the End of Worlds, we had an interesting discussion about the popular predilection of humans to be concerned with “saving animals” as a response to being confronted with the complexities of the climate crisis. In fact, at one point we suggested that the concern with specific species might actually be a feel-good distraction from addressing the more challenging systemic issues that are the foundation of the climate crisis. After all, cute, charismatic species offer […]

Categories: Anthropocene • Tags: "the intrusion of Gaia", David Wallace-Wells, Isabelle Stengers, Peter Brannen

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Coal Burning and Climate Article from 108 Years Ago

February 22, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

I’ve had this image of a news article from 1912 floating around my computer for some time now, and really need to stick it somewhere for safe keeping. Posting it here should keep it somewhere where I can always find it! The article, from Wednesday, August 14th, 1912 issue of The Rodney & Otamatea Times, Waitemata & Kaipara Gazette in New Zealand, is titled: “Coal Consumption Affecting Climate” and reads: GOAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning […]

Categories: Anthropocene, Climate Crisis • Tags: CO2, coal

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Pokémon, Yokai, Animism, Anthropocene

January 20, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

This morning my son sat down and asked me to read through his Pokémon cards with him. Of course I’ve heard of Pokémon, and I remember the Pokémon Go mobile game craze back in the summer of 2016. But, until this morning I really had no first-hand experience with the game and the variety of Pokémon creatures. There were such a great variety of beasts and forces inhabiting all aspects of the planet—woods, waters, earth and sky, thunder, lightning, fire, […]

Categories: Anthropocene • Tags: animism, Pokémon, yokai

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