Behind the Cenes

Director’s notes

Part I

  • The many Ages of the Holocene
  • What wasn’t mentioned: climate change, global warming, deforestation, biological annihilation, ocean acidification, soil fertility exhaustion, etc.
  • Something is not quite right–have you sensed it?

Part II

  • Late Holocene shifts and migrations (Serres) and accelerations (The Great Acceleration).
  • Leaving a mark: stratigraphy and the Earth’s layers
  • A pair of alien geologists visit Earth
  • Telltale signs of an Anthropocene
  • Other names for the Anthropocene

Part III

“Staying with the trouble means making oddkin; that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become - with each other or not at all.”

- Donna Haraway (2016)