Using the Maldives as our (anthropo)scene, we explore how a monolithic and simplistic “We” can be questioned and reframed. Picture Lake Chad as an island of water in the desert and the Maldives surrounded by the rising “blue.”

Using the Maldives as our (anthropo)scene, we explore how a monolithic and simplistic “We” can be questioned and reframed. Picture Lake Chad as an island of water in the desert and the Maldives surrounded by the rising “blue.” The possible disappearance of the Maldives is exemplary in the frame of the Anthropocene, due to its timescale (our generation might see the displacement of this civilization), its spatial scale (an entire archipelago), its analogical power (the graspable finite size of the islands), and the fact that the Maldives, one of the few countries built on a biological organism, highlights how our lives depend on a fragile harmony between the geosphere and the biosphere.