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Art & death : lives between the fifth assessment and the sixth extinction introduction by Heather Davis & Etienne Turpin -- Edenic apocalypse : Singapore's end-of-time botanical tourism project by Natasha Myers -- Diplomacy in the face of Gaia Bruno Latour in conversation with Heather Davis -- Becoming aerosolar : from solar sculptures to cloud cities project by Tomás Saraceno, Sasha Engelman & Bronislaw Szerszynski -- In the planetarium : the modern museum on the anthropocenic stage essay by Vincent Normand -- Physical geology/The Library project by Ilana Halperin -- The existence of the world is always unexpected Jean-Luc Nancy in conversation with John Paul Ricco translated by Jeffrey Malecki -- Cloud writing : describing soft architectures of change in the Anthropocene essay by Ada Smailbegović -- The cerumen strata : from figures to configurations project by Richard Streitmatter-Tran & Vi Le -- Geochemistry & other planetary perspectives essay by Ursula Biemann -- Images do not show : the desire to see in the Anthropocene essay by Irmgard Emmelhainz -- The fates of negativity Anselm Franke in conversation with Etienne Turpin -- Design specs in the Anthropocene : imagining the force of 30,000 years of geologic change project by Jamie Kruse & Elizabeth Ellsworth (smudge studio) -- The Marfa stratum : contributions to a theory of sites essay by Fabien Giraud & Ida Soulard -- On the building, crashing, and thinking of technologies & selfhood Peter Galison in conversation with Etienne Turpin -- We're tigers project by Ho Tzu Nyen -- Technologies of uncertainty in the search for MH370 essay by Linday Bremner -- Last clouds project by Karolina Sobecka -- Islands & other invisible territories essay by Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix (MAP Office) -- Plants that evolve (in some way or another) project by Mixrice (Cho Jieun & Yang Chulmo) -- Indigenizing the Anthropocene essay by Zoe Todd -- Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulhocene Donna Haraway in conversation with Martha Kenney -- Ecologicity, vision, and the neurological system essay by Amanda Boetzkes -- My mother's garden : aesthetics, indigenous renewal, and creativity essay by Laura Hall -- A history according to cattle project by Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson -- PostNatural histories Richard W. Pell in conversation with Emily Kutil & Etienne Turpin -- Dear climates project by Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow -- The Anthropocene : a process-state at the edge of geohistory? essay by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Anna-Sophie Springer -- Public smog project by Amy Balkin -- Life & death in the Anthropocene : a short history of plastic essay by Heather Davis -- Ecosystems of excess project by Pinar Yoldas -- The last political scene Sylvère Lotringer in conversation with Heather Davis & Etiennne Turpin -- #Misanthropocene : 24 theses poem by Joshua Clover & Juliana Springer

Taking as its premise that the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this book explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production in an era of ecological crisis, with contributions from artists, curators, theorists and activists. Contributors include Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Amanda Boetzkes, Lindsay Bremner, Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse (smudge studio), Irmgard Emmelhainz, Anselm Franke, Peter Galison, Fabien Giraud & Ida Soulard, Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix (MAP Office), Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson, Laura Hall, Ilana Halperin, Donna Haraway & Martha Kenney, Ho Tzu Nyen, Bruno Latour, Jeffrey Malecki, Mary Mattingly, Mixrice (Cho Jieun & Yang Chulmo), Natasha Myers, Jean-Luc Nancy & John Paul Ricco, Vincent Normand, Richard Pell & Emily Kutil, Tomás Saraceno, Sasha Engelmann & Bronislaw Szerszynski, Ada Smailbegovic, Karolina Sobecka, Zoe Todd, Richard Streitmatter-Tran & Vi Le, Anna-Sophie Springer, Sylvère Lotringer, Peter Sloterdijk, Etienne Turpin, Pinar Yoldas, and Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow.

The use of mobile devices for identifying risk and coordinating disaster response is well accepted and has been proven as a critical element in disaster risk management. As new tools, applications, and software are adopted by municipal governments and NGOs for the identification and management of urban risk, the need for greater integration of the various data they collect becomes acute. While the challenge of integrated data management is substantial, it is aided by the fact that many new tools have been developed to include an Application Programming Interface (API), which allows the machine-to-machine (i.e. automated) sharing of open data. While some proprietary platforms for the management of urban data are currently available, they are extremely costly and very limited in terms of data inputs; to date there are no open source geospatial software tools for the integrated management of various API sources to evaluate hazards for disaster response. A key to improving disaster risk management as an element of risk identification is the development of an integrated open source Decision-Support Risk Evaluation Matrix that enables: 1) automated integration of multiple geospatial and non-geosapatial API sources into a low cost, user-oriented dashboard; 2) backend database and software design for the Risk Evaluation Matrix that enables data sources to be parameterized and interrogated; 3) the development of an output API stream that allows additional secondary applications to optimize their evaluations and analyses through open access to critical risk information. To address these challenges this paper presents an open source Risk Evaluation Matrix, currently in development, which aims to provide situational oversight of flood hazards from multiple data-sources, including social media, in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia.