Room 1
Understanding the (Mis)anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a geological thought experiment that looks back from a post apocalypse future that collapses the future into the past. Accepting that the future disaster is inevitable and mourning the lost future is part of the Anthropocene.
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This speculative geological identification is taking place in the future absence of geologists in a post human geology. A story of loss sedimented into strata yet to be deposited in these terrestrial futures. The loss of all human stories unrecognisable in the evidence that is speculated upon in a past that is unknowable in the consequences of the unrealisable future.
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Exhibit 1.2
Anthropocene epoch stratotype specimen
Group 2
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Exhibit 1.4
Fossilised faunal remains
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