Textures of the Anthropocene Grain Vapor Ray Edited by Katrin Klingan

Textures of the Anthropocene Grain Vapor Ray

Edited by Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England CONTENTS p. 13 p. 117

Robert Smithson Harold C. Urey A Sedimentation of the Mind: Oxygen Isotopes in Nature and Earth Projects (1968) in the Laboratory (1948)

Sverker Sorlin Kodwo Eshun Uncovering the Non-Site: Reconstructing the Methods for Robert Smithson on Art, Layers, Reformatting Oxygen Isotopes in and Time Nature and.in the Laboratory as Oxygen Tops Nature Oratory for Optical Character Recognition p . 45 Scanners

Alfred Russel Wallace The Importance of Dust: A p. 129 Source of Beauty and Essential to Life (1889) Walter Behrmann The Process of Self- Gloria Meynen Reinforcement (1919) Think Small Tim Ingold After Behrmann: Three Short p. 69 Tales of Self-Reinforcement

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Trade-Wind Dust and Blood Rain p. 147 (1844-49) Lucretius Jan Zalasiewicz On the Nature of Things Change in the Air (1st century BCE)

Bettina Vismann p. 95 In-visible Inter - actions

Lennart von Post On South - Swedish Peat Bogs (1916)

Geoffrey C. Bowker The Seeds of Synchronicity p. 173 p. 261

Denis Diderot John Maynard Keynes D’Alembert’s Dream (1769) Proposals for an International Clearing Union (1943) Dorothea von Hantelmann House of Lords Debates, May 18, Bees, Exhibitions, and the 1943 ■ Anthropocene Adrian Lahoud The Bodele Declaration p. 195

Jorge Luis Borges p. 277 The Aleph (1945) Roland Barthes STRATAGRIDS Plastic (1957) Measuring Infinity Allen S. l/Ke/ss Clay p. 217

Rudolf von Laban p. 285 Principles of Dance and Movement Notation (1956) Georges Bataille Kinetography. Labanotation The Accursed Share (1949) (1928) Etienne Turpin Cecelia Watson Why were there tigers? The Sphere

p. 322 p. 241 Credits Kushim Clay Tablet (c.3200-3000 BCE)

Jurgen Renn Learning from Kushim about the Origin of Writing and Farming Textures of the Anthropocene Grain Vapor Ray

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Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London England CONTENTS p. 13 p. 73

Franz Kafka Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur The Cares of a Family Man The Baburnama: Memoirs of (1920) Babur, Prince and Emperor (1589-90) Jane Bennett The Shapes of Odradek and Natasha Ginwala ■the Edges of Perception The Fortress is Adjacent to the Mountains p. 29 p. 105 Hippocrates Breaths (5th century BCE) US Strategic Bombing Survey Integration of Germany’s Elizabeth A. Povinelli Process Industries (1945) Breathing In, Breathing Out Benjamin Steininger Refinery and Catalysis p. 41

Italo Calvino p. 119 Blood, Sea (1967) Haber-Bosch Process (c.1909) Stefan Helmreich Blood, Waves Bernd M. Scherer The Monsters p. 55 p. 135 Nathaniel B. Ward On the Growth of Plants in Richard Buckminster Fuller Closely Glazed Cases (1842) Machine Tools (1940)

Paulo Tavares Christina Vagt Stratoshield Ventilated Prose p. 157 p. 233

Horst W. J. Rittel and John Wilkins Melvin M. Webber Mercury: or, the Secret and Dilemmas in a General Theory Swift Messenger (1641) of Planning (1973) John Tresch John Law Invisible Ark: John Wilkins, Working well with Wickedness from Mercury to Real Character

p. 177 p. 257

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen James Clerk Maxwell The Steady State and Ecological On Physical Lines of Force Salvation: A Thermodynamic (1861-62) Analysis (1977) Goldin+Senneby with Jo Randerson Elmar Altvater (playwright), Regus (virtual office Securing the Planetary services) Boundaries +91 80 6771 0794

p. 209 p. 276

Richard Price on Thomas Bayes Credits Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances (1763)

Armin Haas The Fabulous Five

p. 223

Ludwig Boltzmann Letter to Arrhenius (1902)

Dietmar Dath Please Be Probable, Darling Textures of the Anthropocene Grain Vapor Ray

Edited by Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England CONTENTS

p. 13 p. 101

Edwin Abbott Abbott Jacques Lacan Flatland : A Romance of Many Seminar III: The Psychoses Dimensions (1884) (1957)

Margarida Mendes Josh Berson The Restless Sky Forced Desynchrony

p. 37 p. 119

Baruch Spinoza Abu AH al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham Ethics (1677) The Optics (1011-21)

Akeel Bilgrami Natascha Sadr Haghighian Reflections on Spinoza’s Ethics, Parallax Pant II, Prop. 11-13

p. 141 p. 53 Bardo Thodol Moshe Feldenkrais (8th century CE) Awareness through Movement, Bronislaw Szerszynski Lesson 11(1972) Liberation Through Hearing in Torsten Blume the Planetary Transition: Rehearsal Habit Funerary Practices in Twenty- Second -Century Mangalayana Buddhism p. 73

Douglass Crockwell p. 165 Method of Producing Animated Motion Pictures (1948) Paul Klee Theory of Pictorial Formation Flora Lysen (1921) Grey Matter and Colored Wax Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925)

Erich Horl Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method p. 193 p. 297

George Kubler John Archibald Wheeler The Shape of Time: Remarks on Information, Physics, Quantum: the History of Things (1962) The Search for Links (1990)

Molly Nesbit Dorian Sagan George Kubler and the The Wheeler Refractions: Second Hand Science Fiction, Science Faction, Parlor Games, Physics, Rap, It, the Bit, and the Real p. 221

Heinrich Hertz p. 325 On the Energy Balance of the Earth (1885) Athanasius Kircher Mundus Subterraneus (1664) Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri Like an Eternal Eighth Day Michel Serres Matter and Information p. 251 p. 334 Wilhelm Ostwald The Energetic Imperative (1912) Credits

Peter Sloterdijk The Anthropocene: A Process - State on the Edge of Geohistory?

p. 273

Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

Friedrich Kittler Pynchon and Electro-Mysticism Textures of the Anthropocene Grain Vapor Ray Manual CONTENTS

Preface...... 3

MUD: All worlds, all times!...... 7 Oracle ...... 8 Earth...... 21 Creature...... 27 Grain Vapor Ray...... 40

Overview of Volumes...... 43

The Editors...... 73 The Anthropocene Project 2013/2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt...... 75