Dr. Christoph Rosol
Forschungsinteressen
As a media studies scholar trained in the history of science and
technology my interests are intrepedly broad. I am fascinated by the
ways in which scientific knowledge is being generated on a wide variety
of topics, be it the reconstruction of abrupt paleoclimatic events in
deep time, the design of future pathways of the Earth system, the study
of ancient human-environment interactions, or current assessments of the
metabolic regime of the Great Acceleration … in short: much of what the
science of geoanthropology is about. How have these particular forms of
knowledge evolved over time, what are their epistemic foundations and
how can they cross-fertilize to help alleviating the ongoing crisis of
the Anthropocene?
The climate and Earth system sciences are a
case in point. In my doctoral thesis I have studied the epistemic
origins and technological foundations of (paleo)climate modeling, stable
isotope mass spectrometry, and marine geology. These disciplines
provide key ways of uncovering the dynamic nature and potential
trajectory of Anthropocene climate, yet they are deeply rooted in
particular technologies of (proxy) data generation and computation that
came to the fore in the middle of the 20th century—not by coincidence also the pivotal point of the Great Acceleration.
Before
joining the MPIGEA I have been a research scholar at the Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin for a number of
years. At the MPIWG I led the research cluster Anthropocene Formations,
which was instrumental in creating the new Geoanthropology institute. In
parallel, I have worked as researcher and curator at Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin. Being a liaison between both institutions I
co-developed and led a variety of transdiciplinary programs and
projects, amongst them the Anthropocene Curriculum, a global platform
for experimental research and education (www.anthropocene-curriculum.org).
Latest Publications
(2024) Ed. with G Rispoli, K Klingan, N Hoffmann-Walbeck: Evidence Ensembles, Leipzig: Spector Books
(2023) with GN Schäfer, SD Turner, CN Waters, MJ Head, J Zalasiewicz, C Rossée, J Renn, K Klingan, BM Scherer, “Evidence and experiment: Curating contexts of Anthropocene geology.” The Anthropocene Review 10(1): 330–339.
(2022). “1948.” In Environing Media, ed. A. Wickberg and J. Gärdebo, 75–92. London: Routledge, 75-92.
(2022) “When the Signal Disappears in the Noise: Geology of a Floating Present.” In Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context, ed. C. Rosol and G. Rispoli. Berlin: MPIWG.
(2022) with M Rosol (lead author): “Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene: On the Necessity of Food and Agriculture Change.” Canadian Food Studies / Le Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation 9 (1): 281–29.
(2022)
with F Creutzig (lead author), D Acemoglu, X Bai, PN Edwards, MJ Hintz,
LH Kaack, S Kilkis, S Kunkel, A Luers, N Milojevic-Dupont, D Rejeski, J
Renn, D Rolnick, D Russ, T Turnbull, E Verdolini, F Wagner, C Wilson, A
Zekar, M Zumwald: “Digitalization and the Anthropocene.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 47: 479-509.
Curatorial Work
- 2012–14 The Anthropocene Project
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2015–19 Technosphere, (incl. chief editor of the Technosphere Magazine)
- 2015 The Technosphere, Now
- 2016 Technosphere × Knowledge
- 2016 Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue
- 2017 1948 Unbound
- 2019 Life Forms
- 2017–18 Anthropocene Lectures
- 2018–19 Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
- 2020–22 Evidence & Experiment