Karen Pinkus discusses “The Anthropocene Desert between Geology and Geography”. Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desiccated Landscapes”.

The Anthropocene Desert between Geology and Geography

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

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The Anthropocene Desert between Geology and Geography

The Anthropocene Desert between Geology and Geography