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Ecuador Acidification

This PECE essay details the quotidian anthropocene in Ecuador utilizing the Questioning Quotidian Anthropocenes analytic developed for the Open Seminar River School.

St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement

JJP

A brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--

--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...

https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/steelcote-developer-plans-more-apartments-brewery-space-in-million-midtown/article_811eaf96-76e1-5c20-a870-1e79abd3f06e.html

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/chouteau-greenway-project-aims-to-knit-st-louis-neighborhoods-together/article_55fea4e6-6829-5c80-9168-313305b4e3bb.html

Chicken Wire

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Poisoned Bees

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Seeds

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Bricks

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Light Bulb

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Latex Gloves

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Sea Glass

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Contaminated Soil

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.