POSTCARDS FROM
THE ANTHROPOCENE
Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation
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Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation explores how our discursive and material conditions around the Anthropocene might transform the way we think about representation.
It includes 45 contributions that cut across the Anthropocene debate and add new perspectives.
The book constructs a fluid language that enables an understanding of elements and matter in states of constant becoming.
The contributions are organised under three types of anthropocenic practices:
Scrutinising
Scrutinising Practices examine, closely and minutely, the spacetime conditions and material arrangements they set off to explore. The lines of inquiry focus on decoding signs; they expand into outer space to look back at Earth, they infiltrate beneath the surface and scope the ground; they investigate disturbances, interferences, and relationalities.
Assembling
Assembling Practices bring together, lay out, and arrange concepts and material elements in logics that resemble Deleuzoguattarian constellations. The investigations explore contingencies among material and technological conditions; they witness entanglements between matter, power, and dominance; they navigate and wander across cultures and memories; they unearth stories of disasters, machines, and lost relations.
Mediating
Mediating Practices examine detours, translations, delegations, inscriptions, and displacements in media histories conflated with the earth. Media is always geologically and politically infused, and geology is also always media. The explorations translate material inscriptions into light and light into matter; they examine the politics involved in entanglements between humans and non-humans; they question meanings of geology as something political and politicised.
EDITORS
Benek Çinçik and Tiago Torres-Campos
Benek Çinçik holds a PhD entitled “Planetary Imaginations and the Anthropocene: Tracing Geoaesthetic Acts between 1968-1972” at the University of Edinburgh which traces the lineages of Anthropocene aesthetics in the late 1960s and early 70s and reveals a prehistory of Anthropocenic imagery in art and architecture through relating theories from environmental humanities, geophilosophy, and Anthropocene studies. She holds an MSc in Architectural Design from Istanbul Technical University and has been teaching architectural design studios and theoretical courses at various universities.
Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect and associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Between 2012 and 2019 he was assistant professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His ongoing doctoral thesis in Architecture by Design is positioned at the intersection between landscape studies and the Anthropocene theory to explore ways of thinking geologically about architecture, landscape and complex contemporary territories. He has published internationally and founded CNTXT Studio (www.cntxtstudio.com), a platform for the study of landscape and its intersections with art, design, and visual media.
Together they co-chaired the international symposium “Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation” in 2017, and co-edited the present book.
CONTRIBUTORS
Adam Bobbette, Alex Hackett and Alix Villanueva, Alexandra Halkias, Angelos Siampakoulis, Barbara Prezelj, Belén Cerezo, Benek Çinçik and Tiago Torres-Campos, Bengi Güldoğan, Blanca Pujals and Laurie Robins, Charles Danby and Rob Smith, Cristoph Solstreif-Pirker, David Habets, Federico Ruberto, Guillermo León Gómez, Ian Rothwell, Ifor Duncan, Jane Turner, Jo Atherton, Joanna Zylinska, John Cook, Josef Barla, Jussi Parikka, Lindsay Bremner, Leila Armstrong, Leonie Mahri and Andy Zhang, Lisa Hirmer, Louise Boscacci, Lucy H.G. Solomon, Marianna Tsionki, Mark Peter Wright, Mikka Laihinen, Neslihan Tepehan, Nigel Clark, Nikos Katsikis, OPPO + Deniz Tümerdem, Patricia and Angus Macdonald, Rona Lee, Smudge Studio (Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse), Sneha Sumanth, Stine Alling Jacobsen, Susan Schuppli, Vicki Kerr, Wood Roberdeau.