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Publikation Fieldtalks, at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia(2017) continent, continent; Allen, JamieWhat would a conversation with a piece of asbestos, or a piece of plastic stranded on the shore of the Schuylkill River be like? And how could a conversation transpire, between things and researchers and other things, if they landed in the same place and found for themselves a common language? Imprinted by Philadelphia’s singular industrial and technological history, the soils, water systems, and infrastructures of the Delaware Valley tell a story of the Anthropocene, the contentious and debated terminology for this new and anthropocentric geological era in which human activities have forever altered the Earth. For the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia (ACP), continent. attempts to listen to the material utterances of sites that voice intertwined economic, technological, and political histories of The Athens of America, a city, a factory, a riverbed, a valley, an escarpment. Collaborating with researchers, activists, scientists and student groups, continent. conducts a set of field walks and discussions that gather objects, samples, sounds, stories, and conversations. We might visit former asbestos production areas at Ambler, call on the developments around Philly’s harbour and waterfront developments, check out conditions along the Schuylkill River and will perchance examine archives at the Academy of Natural Sciences, amongst other areas of interest. Brought to the APC to constitute an anthropocenic evidence locker, a sample table for the technosphere, these artifacts will provide material interfaces and witnesses in the institutional ecosystem of the campus.Inviting more human and linguistic beings to think with and through these collected materials, continent. will issue a series of recorded audio interviews, subject and objects in discussion: Fieldtalks is a continent. podcast at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia. Based on observations and collections of materials at symptomatic and Anthropocenic sites, continent. hosted and recorded Fieldtalks in and around the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia. Participants were invited to think about and bring along documents, objects, artifacts, images, texts that speak to their experience of industrial activity and ecological interactions in the region. Fieldtalks, at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia is a collaboration the ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS PHILADELPHIA (ACP), Scott Knowles and his students preceding the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology.06 - PräsentationPublikation Reproducing Motherhood(2018) continent, continent; Allen, JamieReproducing at L’Automatica, Barcelona is a week of reading, discussions, writing and making in the Catalan capital about maternity, as a mode of creation, care, and continuance. A collaboration between two experimental, autonomous collectives interested in the composition of publics — the online journal continent. and the print shop and community publishing initiative L’Automatica — we invite discussions that nurture the problems and potentials of giving birth to all things published, authored, built, generated, designed, shaped, knocked together and knocked up. Do the presumed public making labours of writing, making images, publishing, printing and reproduction require us to “love our monsters” and “kill your darlings”? Do these impulses speak to those same impulses of care, attention and guardianship, that are present in the consuming and ambiguous hardship, patience, love, altruism, friendship, attention and responsibilities of motherhood? What response-ability do we assume or presume when we give birth to words, to ideas, and weave them into a material (mater, or mother) of, for example, a printed page. Over five days of collaboration in May, we invite writers, artists, thinkers, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters interested in this questioning of motherhood, to share thoughts, voice, words, texts, images, sounds and actions —new and old— that will find their way into printed object, produced and reproduced on site with L’Automatica. Resonances between motherhood and creative labor, from the anecdotal to the analytic, the philosophical to the everyday, are all encouraged and more than welcomed. By the end of these Spring days in Barcelona we hope to create, together, a compendium of care, a handbook of hospitality or a card deck of custodianship, gifted to all those in attendance, and beyond. Is there anything you would like to “bring up”?06 - PräsentationPublikation Friend/Ships(2018) continent, continent; dpr, barcelona; Allen, JamieFriendship is amongst the most fundamental social practices of humankind. We experience and enact friendship in all its ambiguity—the concurrence of sameness and difference—from early childhood on. In as much as our practices of friendship shape and reflect our relation to the world, our relation to the world is reflected in our understanding of relations, connections, attachments—friendship. The space we give is the space we have. But who are “we” when we talk about “us”? In times of an ever more destructive anthropocentrism, of growing nationalisms, in times of increasing social drift, such false assemblages have lost their innocence. Because what connects “us” might equally separate “us” from one, from the other. There are cracks in any such friendly narratives, cracks through which, as Leonard Cohen reminds, the light gets in. Facing critical developments in France, in Europe and across the globe, “our” evening at Centre Culturel Suisse centers on questions of the political potentials and worldbuilding implications of friendship as a means to navigate an in between space – where I end and you begin. How can the fundamental experience called friendship be mobilized as a political force today? What can democracy – or politics as such – be based on, if it accepts concepts of “difference” and “identity” (and thus: “subjectivity”) not as given categorical representations and pre-defined life categories but as movements of becoming and processes of change, matters of ongoing negotiation? Which friendly modes of doing and orienting together can empower new forms of co-existence that might escape the ways in which contemporary technologies and governing forces preemptively capture emotions and control bodies absorbing them into the exclusionary narratives inscribed into representational democracy? What support structures, modes of collective organization, institutional and technological frameworks could be developed to motivate, sustain and support forms of care and action, in solidarity, that would accommodate multiplicity and difference? Based on previous conversations around the topic in the frame of “Body of Us”, the Swiss contribution to the London Design Biennale 2018, the project’s curator Rebekka Kiesewetter has invited friends to continue the discussion around political friendship: dpr-Barcelona, initiators of the “Parasitic reading room” at the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial 2018, architect Ross Exo Adams, one of the contributors to Body of Us publication, and the continent. experimental publishing collective, initiators of “Reading Friendships Paris“ at Centre Culturel Suisse 2016. At this same venue, three years later, the stage opens for an edition of the “Parasitic Reading Room” and a reprise of “Reading Friendships”, an evening of readings, thinkings, creating and discussion. You are welcome to bring friends and family, and to contribute vividly with your thoughts and note, reference, media, piece, book or object that comes to mind and comes to friendship. A collective reader will be produced, on stage, during the sessions in Paris on March 20th, 2019. Can “we” be friends? curated by Rebekka Kiesewetter in the frame of Body of Us, with continent., Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera (dpr-barcelona)06 - Präsentation