For the Kogi in northern Colombia, talk of the Anthropocene and the technosphere it not news. For centuries, they have been living in a hyperdimensional ecology that needs constant maintenance to avoid apocalypse for the entire planet.

This essay was written while being inspired and informed by the conversations that took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) during the first Anthropocene Campus in 2014 and during the sequel in 2016, which sought to tackle more specifically the idea of a technosphere. Stemming from experiences in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, this essay found a good point de suture in the context of the HKW and more specifically within the context of the 2016 seminar and workshop titled “Knowing (in) the Anthropocene.”