“Is there a bridge between abstract science and embodied perception? This text tries to correlate the local experience of fossil-fuel infrastructure with the global analysis of climate change. Inspired by a social movement in Chicago as well as the Anthropocene Curriculum project in Berlin, the essay was commissioned for the edited volume Public Space: Lost and Found (MIT Press, 2017), then widely distributed by e-flux Journal. Its concepts have been foundational for all my subsequent experiments in political ecology.”

— Brian Holmes