“Now you’re sounding even weirder than Peter Haff.” The gloves are off! A lively dispute about the usefulness of the Technosphere concept in general.

In preparation for the Anthropocene Campus 2016 seminar Techno-Metabolism, researchers Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht argued vehemently in their kitchen about the technosphere: as concept, as reality, as tool. In the following dialog, they critique the technosphere, but also discuss its useful elements. They hope that this dialog will help readers think about how to turn intellectual disagreements—with the technosphere or other Anthropocene concepts—into a productive tool for writing and visualization.