The energy consumption implications of cellphones and of technology in general makes me think of the digital environmental humanities we spoke about in class. Given that this project is online and because of this it is able to reach a bigger audience faster than something said or written on paper. Do the social and educational benefits of the DEH in some sense outweigh the environmental ramifications of this technology? I'm curious how your project would trouble this and what the way forward would be of considering both or one more than the other.

I think this page was a perfect mix of statistics and humanities. This page presented the shock factor of the amount of energy consumed from seemingly meaningless actions like using a phone, while also connecting to the images and how images can be damaging not just in judgement and comparison but also on an environmental scale. Tying these two ideas together captures what I believe you are getting at about the Anthropocene; the environmental impacts and the social impacts of humanity in a time of struggle for many.

This passage really challenged my understanding of the Anthropocene and stuck with me as I continued navigating your Scalar project. I had previously not concretely thought about the relationship with an everyday object, like the phone, and the environmental impacts in places so far from me, that I may never go to. More than that I had not been able to visualize the impacts of data on 'the cloud' until I read this page and thought about the amount of electricity that is being consumed for one photo. I think this is a really interesting way of reaching the local dimensions of the Anthropocene from something as global as phones. It makes you think about your personal impact and how far removed you are from it as we spoke about in class.

I love the title of this page. It perfectly plays with the concept of speculative fiction we discussed in class by combining it with a dystopian sense of where the phone that humanity is so attached to is headed in the future.

I really appreciate this possible alternative of turning from a world of judgment, from the way of looking at oneself with negativity, to the shifting of looking through that same object (the mirror) from a loving perspective. This feels like a wonderful way to repair and rewrite a fundamental question of the self in the Anthropocene.

The central tenet of this page is the object/subject duality that i had not thought about when creating a visualization of the Anthropocene. The way you articulate its importance is well-founded, and it has challenged my understanding of the Anthropocene. From my perspective as an environmental studies student, I had not thought about the possibility of subject/object dualisms with the self and how the mirror can serve as a vehicle for looking at oneself, but also of staring at oneself at the same time. This relationship is fundamental to the relational aspects of the Anthropocene and how everything is connected, even the self, through different mechanisms. In that exploration, it makes me think of the navigation of worlds between the human and non-human realms of beings and living.

The images that you have inserted along with your explanation of the poem, I think fit perfectly with the words you are saying. In one page, you managed to explore three different processes in a seamless manner, through creative writing, poetry and images. I am curious as to whether you created these images and how they play a role in your analysis of the poem as well.

I really appreciate how you incorporated poetry into your analysis of the Anthropocene. I think poetry gets at the connection between the human and the more-than-human that radical Western thought tries to remove itself from in the Anthropocene. Your poem is very emotional and thought-provoking and definitely achieves your goal of exploring the subject/object dichotomy.