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- PublikationWhat on earth is the planetary?(2023) Allen, Jamie; Bolen, Jeremy [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]There are efforts being made, and forced upon us, to grapple with the earth as an entity, object, and force. Under the guise of “planetarity,” these efforts span pursuits in the natural sciences of atmospheres, environments, and geologies, the biologies of living and ecologies of nonliving things, and the human knowledge practices that chart social, geopolitical, logistical, and infrastructural globalism. In their video essay project, “The Impossibility of a Planet,” artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen engage in dialogues with those who seek to compose planetary-scale images, thinking, narratives, and models. In a companion essay to the video segments, an inquiry into the media and methods of such compositions provides complement. Where do planetarities come from, and where are they taking us?10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationIt All Begins on the Surface(2022) Russell, Catherine; Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]It All Begins on the Surface, Being a Sedimentologist in the Anthropocene is a set of discussions transcribed and edited toward an article for the Anthropocene Curriculum materials emerging from the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, and as part of the extended Temporary continent. project. These generous discussions began as conversations between Dr. Catherine Russell, Anthropocene sedimentologist and US-UK Fulbright-Lloyd’s Visiting Scholar at the University of New Orleans, and Jamie Allen. It all started on a walk, continued on a bus trip, and proceeded through online calls, messaging, and email, including during a pandemic and its lockdowns, for quite a long time—three touching and delicate years of intermittent check-ins paying witness to changing perspectives, sometimes difficult realizations, and the generative magic of discussion between people with rather different perspectives. When the Anthropocene River group witnessed the ongoing transformations taking place along the Mississippi River, it was already clear that we are in a period in which the world will increasingly expect, need, and rely on “answers” from people like Catherine—geologists, geoscientists, geographers, and the like. That is, those wehope can help us make sense of “the Earth,” and, perhaps, how to better be Earthlings.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationOf Metabolic Myth(2022) Allen, Jamie [in: Raddar]There are few areas of material culture from which people demand more authenticity, integrity and transparency than the techniques and materialities surrounding food. Foods materialise myths and imaginaries of nature and modernity, and entire regional economies and national cuisines rely on evolved and invented stories about where and how foodstuffs are prepared. At the same time, systems of provenance are challenging to establish, fakes common, and forgery rampant. Cultures and peoples the world over concern themselves with the genuineness of dishes and the pedigree of raw materials and preparations. Governance and policy structures attempt to snare those who wilfully or otherwise commit the deep offence of violating the economic sanctity or highly intimate significance of foods. Food processes are faked, adulterated, contaminated and stigmatised in ways that deeply revolt, pervert and reveal those things about which human beings care most deeply. The myths, materiality, media, systems and infrastructures of food are a metabolic imaginary that links seemingly simple alimentary processes to notions of truth-telling and authenticity. Our culinary techniques and performances of socialisation, story- telling and identity show, yet again, that “truth is a matter of the imagination”.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationPlanetary Intimacy(29.11.2021) Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]Planetary Intimacy is a contribution to the Anthropocene Curriculum and COURSES platform "On Curricula". The essay text addresses the seemingly opposed notions of distance and proximity with intimacy and planetarity to call for new kinds of intimacy, not closeness global grid but as an interconnected network of locales. Through such an approach, Allen suggests, the multiple distances—in terms of both geography and understanding—at play within the Anthropocene might be better apprehended. Planetary Intimacy features an excerpt of Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum by Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, courtesy of the artists, and links to a COURSES entry on the topic of Distance Learning referencing archival and curricular materials from the Anthropocene Curriculum archives and beyond.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationCan Hope be Calculated? Multiplying and Dividing Carbon, before and after Corona(03.03.2021) Allen, Jamie [in: A Nourishing Network]Can Hope be Calculated? Multiplying and Dividing Carbon, before and after Corona is a piece of writing for the A Nourishing Network publishing project that documents and circulates current research done by a network of artists, activists and programmers that collaborate with the Austrian net culture initiative servus.at. Written in collaboration with researcher, artist and writer Caroline Sinders, Can Hope be Calculated? is a short essay about the positive potentials of quantification, calculation, and technologies if they can be 'brought down to size' and made graspable. Can Hope be Calculated? was commissioned following a workshop "Trace Carbon" for the March 2020 Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) festival.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationFaith Family Farming(11.10.2019) Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]Tracing the origins of the original “American Farmer” Johnny Appleseed via the various incarnation of the “Wild West” that have led to the era of Apple Inc. and the quantification and gridification of American landscapes, Jamie Allen for Temporary continent. unearths the role folklore has played—and continues to play—in harvesting worth of all kinds. Locating the phenomena in the Midwestern United States context of Field Station 2, this reflection also draws parallels between systems and processes that operate at a global scale.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationGood River, Bad River, Little River, Big River(18.09.2019) Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]Just as a river can be read as a place where things go and a place in itself, it can also be simultaneously understood as a life-giving force by some and a resource to be mined by others. Through a series of conversations held along its route, Temporary continent. track some of the various different guises the Mississippi has taken for those who live and work with it. In this post, Jamie Allen for Temporary continent. explores the contrasts between attitudes of reverence and exploitation.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationHeadwaters at the Head Waters(29.08.2019) Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]The “precise” geographical location of a river’s source is a label attributed much significance across a range of disciplinary contexts. Yet, as the example of the Mississippi asserts, the headwaters designation is typically one that is far from clear-cut. Despite this, the Mississippi’s touristically designated “source” remains a fixture on maps of North American territory and collective cultural consciousness alike, as Jamie Allen for Temporary continent. describes in this short reflection.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation
- PublikationSitting On Top of the World: Meridional Media, Arctic Condescension, and Northern Techniques(30.11.2018) Allen, Jamie [in: Anthropocene Curriculum]Based on experiences, stories, and representations of circumpolar regions, what follows examines (dis)orienting ways of technical knowing that align longitudinally. Jamie Allen's writings map the relations, tensions, and collusions between material and knowledge infrastructures and actual and modelled ecologies, and Merle Ibach prepares images to accompany these.10 - Elektronische-/ Webpublikation