Detailed Schedule + Readings

PART I: LECTURE/DISCUSSION + LAB



WK01

Thursday, 1/4

Geo-Story

Kaplan, Sarah. “Crawford Lake Shows Humans Started a New Chapter in Geologic Time, Scientists Say.” Washington Post, July 12, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/11/anthropocene-begins-canada-crawford-lake/.


Media

Kaplan, Sarah, Simon Ducroquet, Bonnie Jo Mount, Frank Hulley-Jones, and Emily Wright. “Hidden beneath the Surface.” Washington Post, Accessed September 21, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/anthropocene-geologic-time-crawford-lake/.

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Ibañez, Daniel, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, and Mason White, eds. 2017. “Projections,” Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan, 28-55. New York: Actar D.


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Chwałczyk, Franciszek. “Around the
Anthropocene in Eighty Names—Considering the Urbanocene Proposition.” Sustainability 12, no. 11 (May 31, 2020): 4458. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114458.

Davis, Heather, and Zoe Todd. “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 16, no. 4 (December 2017): 761–80.

Curley, Andrew, and Sara Smith. “The Cene Scene: Who Gets to Theorize Global Time and How Do We Center Indigenous and Black Futurities?” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, May 17, 2023, 25148486231173865. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231173865.

McCarthy, Francine MG, R. Timothy Patterson, Martin J Head, Nicholas L Riddick, Brian F Cumming, Paul B Hamilton, Michael FJ Pisaric, et al. “The Varved Succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a Candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series.” The Anthropocene Review 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 146–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196221149281.

Lewis, Simon L., and Mark A. Maslin. “Defining the Anthropocene.” Nature 519, no. 7542 (March 2015): 171–80. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14258.

Ellis, Erle C. “Why I Resigned from the Anthropocene Working Group.” Anthroecology Lab (blog), July 13, 2023. https://anthroecology.org/why-i-resigned-from-the-anthropocene-working-group/.






INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL SPATIAL MEDIA / CEGU 23517 / ENST 23517 / ARCH 23517 / DIGS 23517 / ARTV 20665 / MAAD 13517 | WINTER 2024

INSTRUCTORS: Alexander Arroyo, Grga Bašić, Sol Kim

URBAN THEORY LAB   |   COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, AND URBANIZATION   |    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO