Contents

Contributor Biographies

xi

Editors’ Preface

xxiii

Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier and Geoffrey Rockwell

SECTION ONE: RE-DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY

1

1.

Why Should We Try to Be Sustainable? Expected Consequences and the Ethics of Making an Indeterminate Difference

3

Howard Nye

2.

Sustainability in the Anthropocene: From Forests to the Globe

37

Petra Dolata

3.

Academia, Abstraction and the Anthropocene: Changing the Story for Right Relationship

61

Kristine Kowalchuk

4.

Kitting the Digital Humanities for the Anthropocene: Digital Metabolism and Eco-Critical DH

93

Amanda Starling Gould

5.

Impact of the Digital Revolution on Worldwide Energy Consumption

111

Doug Barlage and Gem Shoute

6.

Sustainable DNA: In Conversation

133

Mél Hogan and Deb Verhoeven

SECTION 2: ART AND/IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

153

7.

Design Education in the Anthropocene: Teaching Systems Thinking

155

Eric Benson and Priscilla Ferronato

8.

Inspiration from Goethe’s Tender Empiricism: How to be the Person Collecting, Analyzing and Visualizing Data

173

Joshua Korenblat

9.

Solidarity Seeds: Situated Knowledges in Bishan Village, Wang Chau Village and Aarey Forest

217

Michael Leung

10.

e-Waste Peep Show: A Research-Creation Project on the (In)visibility of Technological Waste

257

Lai-Tze Fan

11.

Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form: A Panel Revisited

275

Natalie Loveless, Andrew S. Yang, Karin Bolender, Christa Donner, Scott Smallwood, Leanne Olson and Jesse Beier

SECTION THREE: SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES

307

12.

The Weight of The Digital: Experiencing Infrastructure with InfraVU

309

Ted Dawson

13.

Asking Why: Cultivating Eco-Consciousness in Research Labs

329

Allison Paradise

14.

Sustainability, Living Labs and Repair: Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation

357

Hart Cohen, Francesca Sidoti, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes, Maryella Hatfield and Jonathon Allen

15.

An Intro to Econferences

399

Chelsea Miya, Geoffrey Rockwell and Oliver Rossier

16.

Econferences Are Not the Same, but Are They Good Enough?

421

Terry Anderson

17.

Online Conferences: Some History, Methods and Benefits

435

Nick Byrd

18.

‘Greening’ Academic Gatherings: A Case for Econferences

463

Oliver Rossier, Chelsea Miya and Geoffrey Rockwell

List of Illustrations

511

Index

519

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