Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human

Preface
Acknowledgment
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Anthropocene and Memory: Setting the Scene
		The Anthropocene
		Memory
	Organising Time
	Book Structure and Chapter Summaries
	References
Chapter 2: Notes on Methodology
	Positionality and the Politics of Citation
	Anthropocene-as-Method
	References
Part I: Past: Memorialising Loss
	Chapter 3: Climate Chronograph: An Anthropocene Memorial Recording Climate Change on the Banks of the Potomac River in Washington D.C.
		Unsettling the Settled: Time, Space and Memory
		The Countermemory of Climate Change
		A Memorial of and in the Anthropocene
		Climate Chronograph ‘IRL’
		References
	Chapter 4: Wooden Boulder: An Anthropocene Memorial Ruin Travelling Through Wales
		Posthuman Possibilities
		A Multispecies Posthuman Memorial
		Ecological Memory Sites
			Ruins in the Making
			Beyond Ruins
		Nonhuman Memory?
		References
Part II: Present: The Institutionalisation of Change
	Chapter 5: The Père Lachaise Cemetery: Redefining Death and Nature in and with the Anthropocene
		A Memory Garden: Conceptualising Death with Nature and Nature with Death
		Adapting to Climate Change at Père Lachaise: Sustainability and Green Practices
		Père Lachaise and the Anthropocene
			The Free Cats of Père Lachaise
			The Fossils of Père Lachaise
		Towards Eco-cemeteries of the Anthropocene?
		References
	Chapter 6: ‘A New Museum for the Path Ahead’: Exhibiting Climate Change at the Climate Museum
		Museums and Climate Change: (1) ‘Museums Demonstrate Our Values, We Create Museums About the Things that Matter’
			Humanising the Inhuman at In Human Time: 20 December 2017 to 11 February 2018, Parsons School of Design, NYC
			The Localised Diversity of Climate Signals: 1 September 2018 to 6 November 2018, NYC
			The Overwhelming Solutionism of Taking Action: 7 June to 27 October 2019, House 18, Nolan Park Governors Island, NYC
		Redefining Memory and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: (2) ‘Museums Give us a Place to Process Things Together’
		The Effectual Power of Museums: (3) ‘Museums Create Space in Which Meaningful Interactions Can Happen’
		References
Part III: Future: Waste and Its Afterlives
	Chapter 7: Don’t Follow the Wind and the Spatiotemporal Confines of the Nuclear Anthropocene: Future Memory and Synchronous Temporality
		Nuclear Memory and Future Memory
		Thick Future Memory and Juxtaposed Temporalities
		Nuclear Memorial Aesthetics
		Mnemonic Synchronicity and Counter Collective Memory
		The Hauntings of Future Memory
		References
	Chapter 8: Forever Now: The Chicken at the End of the Road and the Plastic That Is Everything
		The Deep History of the Chicken
		Future Memory and the Future of Memory
		The Political and Ecological Afterlife of Chickens and Plastic in the Present
		Plastic’s Future Memory: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Forever?
		Memory in and of the Anthropocene, in the Present for a Deep Future
		References
	Chapter 9: Conclusion
		Inhuman History vs. More-Than-Human Future Memory
		Remembering in the Anthropocene Away from White Tears
		Reflections on the Present, Our Memory of the Future
		References
Bibliography
Index