Christopher Schaberg is the Director of Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. His new book Adventure: An Argument for Limits is a follow-up to his 2019 book Searching for the Anthropocene.
The game here took place on several dimensions. It was, on one hand, a game with time—in the right place at the right moment—and on the other, with fish and bugs, in that moment. Once every seventeen years, maybe this might happen. But it has also become a game with memory, and with writing—and now, with technology.
The topic of the Anthropocene is so vast and, well, everywhere, that sometimes you just have to make brief forays into the muck and see if anything makes sense or connects.