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The Anthropocene’s Signal: What the Geology of the Present Beckons for the Future of Research
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Which fingerprints of global human activities appear in the geological archive? And how do geologists investigate such an earthly present? This reciprocal pair of questions has been the point of departure for a pioneering transdisciplinary collaboration that, over the last few years, has tightly interwoven the very different research backgrounds and daily routines of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the MPIWG’s research cluster “Anthropocene Formations.” The connection of these three unusual partners has existed since 2012, creating completely new knowledge practices and discursive spaces of research and the public in their combination of diverse expertise. In July 2023 the AWG, in a joint press conference with the MPIWG, will announce its final recommendation for the formal geological reference point for the onset of the Anthropocene. The completion of this effectively “epoch-making” research work coincides with the end of the HKW’s ten-year long focus on the Anthropocene and the establishment of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPIGEA), now firmly anchoring Anthropocene research within the Max Planck Society. We would like to use this conclusion of a decade-long phase of institutional reorientation toward Anthropocene perspectives to take a look back at the research on the geological signals of the Anthropocene, and ahead to what these themselves signal for the future of engaged research.
Christoph Rosol
Georg Schäfer
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Das Anthropozän-Signal: Was die Geologie der Gegenwart für die Zukunft der Forschung bedeutet
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Welche Fingerabdrücke des globalen menschlichen Handelns finden sich im geologischen Archiv? Und wie erforschen Geolog*innen eine solche irdische Gegenwart? Derlei Fragen bildeten den Ausgangspunkt für eine wegweisende transdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit, die in den letzten Jahren die höchst unterschiedlichen Forschungs- und Arbeitsroutinen der Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) und dem MPIWG-Forschungscluster Anthropocene Formations eng miteinander verwoben hat. Bereits seit 2012 bestand die Verbindung dieser drei höchst ungewöhnlichen Partner, die in ihrer Kombination aus verschiedenartigen Expertisen völlig neue Forschungspraktiken und diskursive Räume von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit schuf. Im Juli 2023 gibt die AWG auf einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz mit dem MPIWG ihre endgültige Empfehlung für den offiziellen geologischen Referenzpunkt für den Beginn des Anthropozäns bekannt. Mit dem Abschluss dieser gewissermaßen „epochalen” Forschungsarbeit, dem Ende des zehnjährigen Anthropozän-Schwerpunkts am HKW und der Gründung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geoanthropologie (MPIGEA), welches die Anthropozän-Forschung fest in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft verankert, lohnt ein kleiner Rückblick auf die stratigraphischen Untersuchungen des anthropozänen Signals und ein Ausblick darauf, was eben dieses für die Zukunft einer engagierten Wissenschaft selbst wiederum signalisiert.
Christoph Rosol
Georg Schäfer
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Science as Prophecy: Measuring Past and Future Climates
"Climate" defies easy definition. It is a malleable concept, one that historians have increasingly recognized is mediated by diverse cultural practice
Anthropocene Curriculum
The Anthropocene as a contemporary challenge demands a new form of engagement, also for the history of science. The profession cannot stop at mere his
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Since 2012 the Department has maintained a close working relationship with the HKW in its two-year “Anthropocene Project” as well as its follow-up pro
Announcement of the Anthropocene Working Group's Proposed GSSP Candidate Site of the Anthropocene
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The Sino-Norwegian Centre for the Study of Society and Environment (SINORSE) coordinates and initiates research and teaching about society and environ
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SINORSE, which was established in 2019, facilitates student exchange at the postgraduate level. Research and teaching connected to SINORSE have a firm
Tracing the Earth System Before Earth-system Science
By defining the “natural” and the “artificial” in terms of self-organized systems aiming to preserve a state of equilibrium, system theories and cyber
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Routes to the Noosphere: Tracing Planetary Histories for the Anthropocene
Over the last five years, a plethora of volumes, articles, and essays foc