Editors: Lucas van der Velden, Mirna Belina, Arie Altena
Copy Editors: Arie Altena, Mark Poysden
Design: Femke Herregraven
PDF, English, January 2015
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The Geologic Imagination is a richly illustrated volume of essays, interviews and visual materials. Fundamental to this collection is the idea that we live in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Human activity has irreversibly changed the composition of the atmosphere, the oceans, and even the Earth’s crust. Humanity has become a geological force. The publication explores this world of long timescales, slow shifts, and dark ecology. It asks what happens in the ground beneath our feet, and looks at how unknown territories can be documented in meaningful ways. The contributions examine how these changes and transformations that occur at Earth's magnitude and on a geological scale challenge our imagination and understanding of concepts such as nature, culture, and ecology.

Contents

Introduction – Lucas van der Velden, Arie Altena

Grey Zone – Marijn de Jong

Reverse Icarus — Douglas Kahn

Kodwo Eshun: Geologic Time, The Anthropocene And Earthquake Sensitives – Interview by Julian Ross

Matthew Coolidge: Every Molecule on the Surface of Earth Has Been Affected by Humans – Interview by Liesbeth Koot

Terminal Atomic: Technogeomorphological Mounds – Center For Land Use Interpretation

Dipesh Chakrabarty: Moods Of The Anthropocene – Interview by Liesbeth Koot

Practices For Turning Into The Anthropocene – Smudge Studio (Jamie Kruse, Elizabeth Ellsworth)

Poetry and Bookkeeping – Michael Welland

★ Kurt Hentschläger: Sublime Landscapes 3.0 – Interview by Mirna Belina

Human Thought at Earth Magnitude – Timothy Morton

On Long-Wave Synthesis – Raviv Ganchrow

Mario de Vega: Trying To Understand Things That Are Bigger Than Yourself – Interview by Carsten Seiffarth

Robotic Arms, Crabs And Algos: The Arctic Ocean Floor as a New Financial Frontier – Femke Herregraven

Noortje Marres: It Takes A Lot To Articulate An Object – Interview by Arie Altena

★ Liam Young: The Shadow Cast by The Luminous Screen that We Hold in Our Hands Stretches Across The Planet – Interview by Tim Maughan

Know Darkness – Paul Bogard

About Time – Mirna Belina

Unearthed – Karl Lemieux, BJ Nilsen