In class we were asked to think up what would be our perfect world. In my perfect world I was sitting on top of a green hill with one tree, and the image I came up with I believe I had imagined once many years prior when reading a book I enjoyed as a kid. In the this place if you… Read more »
Once again I am asked to consider this question; what is human beingness in the anthropocene? A short while ago all I could say about the anthropocene was that it “was a colossal accident,” and “is a consequence of over seven billion people,” because that’s what the syllabus said. I thought about it, and human beingness alone means simply existing… Read more »
Right away my group and I knew what we wanted to come out of our action project, and that was to circulate strong emotions within our audience in response to information on global warming and its effects. We chose to use the bottom up approach and targeted our own community. Luckily, we have the city of Seattle right at our… Read more »
In our most recent class contemplative practice we were asked to envision the world in three different ways. This included having a perspective of our Earth as getting worse, getting better, and it being in a state of things are what they are. I learned a lot about the state of the world in my own perspective and how I… Read more »
Hello fellow anthropocene victims. Written below is my most recent journal entry from after one of the classes group contemplative practices. Enjoy and good luck. When opening my eyes from my class’s most recent contemplative practice, I felt like I had been gone four hours. I almost could not remember anything I had even thought, but stuck with me was… Read more »
Through my learnings so far about the Anthropocene the things aspect that stands out the most is that we know nothing, and when I say nothing I mean what fools we are to put ourselves in a predicament like this without a plan. In my time on this planet, in this epoch I’ve learned a few important things such as… Read more »