Anthropocene Proposal Defense – Here We Go!

Come hell or high water tomorrow, which in New York these days it’s hard to know which is more likely, my PhD dissertation proposal defense will be over. I’m expecting it to be successful. However, I was not able to use some of the multimedia and visuals I had hoped to be able to use in the defense itself. But that wouldn’t stop me. If technology is the problem, so be it. And so I went back to old school-ish methods–the printed, large-format visual bricolage. Viola! So in all its glory, here is my attempt to compress some of my project, which is looking at the intersections of religion, science, popular culture and environmental politics in the Anthropocene, into one large visual map. Apologies if some of the smaller sections are harder to read. The full original is 72″ x 48″.

If you want to read more about the project, check out my proposal here. If you’re wondering what the Anthropocene is, check out some of my older posts here.

Until next time…banzai!

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