Recording the Anthropocene

Recommended Readings, Documentaries, Music, and Art

READING

Animal's People, Indra Sinha
The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives, Will Steffen et al
The Backwaters Sphere, Aarthi Vadde
The Biosphere, Vladimir Vernadsky
Body Toxic: an Environmental Memoir,  Susanne Antonetta
The Drowned World, JG Ballard
The Earth as Modified by Human Action, George Perkins Marsh
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Elizabeth KolBert
Flight Beahvior, and Barbaba Kingsolver
From Here, Daniel Kramb
From Prehistory to the End of Mankind, J.H. Rosny-Aine
Geology of Mankind, Paul Crutzen
The Georgics (David Ferry's 2004 translation)
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
Man and Nature, George Perkins Marsh
Odds Against Tomorrow,  Nathaniel Rich
Oil on Water, Helon Habila
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals Environment, eds. Huggan & Tiffin
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, eds. DeLoughrey and Handley
Preindustrial Human Impacts on Global and Regional Environments, Chris Doughty
Rewards and Penalties of Monitoring the Earth, Dennis Keeling
Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon
Solar, Ian McEwan
State of Fear,  Michael Crichton;
Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Karen Tei Yamashita
Twilight of the Mammoths, Paul Schultz Martin
Uncommon Ground, William Cronon
Unending Frontier, John Richards
Walden,  Henry David Thoreau
The Wind-Up Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

SCIENCE FICTION (CLI-FI)

And Still the Earth, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Dune, Frank Herbert
Earth, David Brin
Far North, Marchel Theroux
A Friend of the Earth, T.C. Boyle
Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
Mother of Storms, John Barnes
Polar City Red, Jim Laughter
Salt, Gabrielle Lord
Science in the Capital trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
Swamp Thing Comics, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, DC Comics
Ultimatum, Matthew Glass
White Noise, Don DeLillo
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

DOCUMENTARIES

Chasing Ice  http://www.chasingice.com
Chasing Water  http://www.mountainfilm.org/film/chasing-water
Last Call at the Oasis  https://streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/last-call-at-the-oasis 
A Will for the Woods http://www.awillforthewoods.com
Green Green Water http://www.greengreenwater.com  (and a counter site arguing for the "biases" and "innacuracies" in the documentary http://www.greengreenwaterbiased.com/truth.html )
A River Changes Course http://www.ariverchangescourse.com
Elemental http://environment.yale.edu/film/2013/elemental/
Trashed http://trashedfilm.com

Documentaries available at Duke Library:

Gasland  http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004662775
Warriors of Qiugang http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004667264
Beijing Besieged by Waste  http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004905744
Crude http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004295743
If a Tree Falls http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE005068460
The Last Mountain http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE005069517
Dirt! The Movie http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE004665936

 Complilation Lists:

"Top 10 Environmental Films of All Time”  http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/top-10-environmental-films-of-all-time
"Top Movies on the Environment” http://www.squidoo.com/top-movies-on-the-environment

MUSIC

Suggested music w/environmental themes: includes 50+ titles from groups: http://www.grinningplanet.com/6001/environmental-songs.htm
A group of muscians working under the label of Musicians United to Save the Environment: http://www.musemusic.org/Our_Musicians.php

VISUAL/INSTALLATION ART

WHITE SOUND: AN URBAN SEASCAPE - http://www.wellcomecollection.org/press/press-releases/white-sound-an-urban-seascape.aspx
HIGH ARCTIC: DISPLAY AT ROYAL MUSEUM GREENWICH - http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/past/high-arctic/
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE EXHIBIT - http://waterwatereverywherenoranydroptodrink.blogspot.com/?view=classic
AMY BALKIN - http://tomorrowmorning.net/projects
TIM COLLINS AND REIKO GOGO - http://collinsandgoto.com
LEILA NADAR CARY PEPPERMINT - http://ecoarttech.net
CORNELIA HESSE-HONEGGER - http://www.wissenskunst.ch/uk/completed-studies/chernobyl/1/
JOSEPH GOLDSBY - http://josephemmanuelingoldsby.com/sub_publication.html
ANDREA JUAN - http://www.andreajuan.net/en/prycto_antart2.aspx
DANIEL MILLER - http://www.danmillerart.com
RUTH WALLEN'S SEA AS SCULPTRESS - http://philo.exploratorium.edu/visiting_artists/rwallen/sea_as_sculptress/home.html
http://ruthwallen.net/artindex.html
JACKIE BROOKNER ECOLOGICAL ART - http://jackiebrookner.com/

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