bobmarleysghost posted:

BetterLekNextTime posted:

I regretted not submitting to the last Dorkroom zine. Count me in for a photo.

BetterLekNextTime posted:

I regretted not submitting to the last Dorkroom zine. Count me in for a photo.


Crummy phone photo of a print of mine in an exhibit at a local photo collective. I bought the frame years ago and I was stoked how the print looks in it.

Photo of Siblings Print on Flickr

bobmarleysghost posted:

the zine would need an idea to represent, or it will suffer an aimless fate and fall flat

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We have reached an unprecedented moment in planetary history. Humans now affect the Earth and its processes more than all other natural forces combined. The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth. 

The Holocene epoch started 11,700 years ago as the glaciers of the last ice age receded. Geologists and other scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group believe that we have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. Their argument is that humans have become the single most defining force on the planet and that the evidence for this is overwhelming. Terraforming of the earth through mining, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture; the proliferation of dams and diverting of waterways; CO2 and acidification of oceans due to climate change; the pervasive presence around the globe of plastics, concrete, and other technofossils; unprecedented rates of deforestation and extinction: these human incursions, they argue, are so massive in scope that they have already entered, and will endure in, geological time.

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"How Anthropo-scenic!":
Karla McManus
Concerns and Debates about the Age of the Human
There is a lot of talk about the Anthropocene. As we circle the drain, our greatest thinkers and provocateurs-including scientists and artists- are debating, disagreeing, and disrupting the concept of the new geological epoch, the literal Age of Human. When did it start? people ask. Who is responsible? Can we prevent more change or at least slow it down? Will naming it help? Some of this is just semantics, of course, a debate about the details, not the concept itself. Yet from another perspective, semantics-that, at times, dismissive term used to describe the practice of nitpicking-is at the very heart of the cultural understanding of human communication and meaning-formation. Words have power, after all, and those who wield them even more. When we argue about the basic meaning of a term-for example, does the anthropo imply human responsibility is equally shared?-we are making cultural decisions about what the Anthropocene will mean to people for years, maybe even centuries, to come. This is an important dialogue, even if it can sometimes come across as petty or schismatic. Perhaps the biggest question of all is one rooted in the dynamics of power: Who gets to decide the answers to these questions?

These debates are guided by the question of what it means to be human on the planet, when we have irrevocably altered the balance of the earth's systems: the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere. These changes are beyond physical; they have affected our cultures and histories, driven wars and alliances, shaped our economies, and influenced the way people have been enslaved, subjugated, and exploited, from the age of agriculture to the age of steam and the microchip. We have disrupted and altered our global climate, acidified our waters, triggered the mass extinction of biodiversity, transformed ecosystems that we rely on for life, polluted vast areas of land and water, all the while reproducing at a rate that requires more and more resources that are becoming scarcer!

The complexities and interdependencies of these systems are only now becoming understood, even while we change them irrevocably. How do we even begin to draw a line or plant a spike to say, "This is when it all started"?