How does the Anthropocene inform practices of knowledge production? A conceptual treatment of the guiding questions of the project launch of Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. 

In June 2018, several collaborators of the project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River met in Minneapolis–Saint Paul for a planning workshop, excursions to local river sites and a public symposium to discuss and present on their respective approaches, practices and methods in exploring the river as a zone of critical conditions and experiences. In this essay, Alya Ansari deciphers epistemic entanglements and pressing questions that arose out of the participants’ discussion. Highlighting that the project grapples with the Anthropocene concept as an “epistemological lens,” the author considers the implications of the “age of humankind” on paradigmatic changes in knowledge production and dissemination.