https://github.com/jkim5/miss-canoe The Anthropocene highlights limitations in existing frameworksfor data collection and analysis with the suggestion that researchers have run up against the limits of the knowable. This has been revealed in a number of ways: an inadequacy in existing techniques to analyze a changing and uncertain future, challenges to the way in which researchers frame
CategoryMississippi River
Dam, Lock, Groyne: The Temporal Architecture of the Mississippi River
Over the last few years, I have traveled up and down the river to visit the Upper Mississippi’s 29 locks and dams in a study of its varied engineered structures and earthworks. The three sculptures created for the film reference the river’s existing infrastructure: a dam or levee, a lock, and a groyne. Though there
Research website for ongoing work on the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project. It provides tools for documenting and archiving ourresearch on the project. https://anthropocene-curriculum.org/
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River explores the vast but patchy area
of the Mississippi in its changing spatio-temporal formations. Its aim
is to open up this landscape to a larger public and make it legible as a critical zone of habitation and long-term interaction between humans and the environment.
Mississippi Studies
We propose an ACM Planning Meeting on Mississippi Studies to build faculty interest and develop infrastructure on Mississippi Studies, a new research initiative to encourage intercollegiate collaboration on publicly engaged projects that center on the Mississippi River watershed and its inhabitants. The goal of Mississippi Studies is to re-imagine the river and its tributaries as