In To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century, Richard Weller, Professor Emeritus and Co-Founder of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania, has condensed a sprawling subject into a compact field guide to 120 of the most significant 21st century objects, from bulldozers to Biosphere II. Call it dystopian, call it optimistic. Just don’t call it “anthroporn.”
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, by Timothy Morton
Utopias (and Utopia’s Evil Twins)
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Machines:
Bulldozers + polymetric nodules
Fish farms
Solar arrays
Sand motor + littoral drift
Tree-planting drones
Monsters:
Geo-engineering
The World Park Project / UN Convention on Biological Diversity
