The article offers a discursive complement to an audiovisual artwork created by the authors for the cultural program Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. It explores philosophical, technological, and political aspects of the modernization process that reshaped the landscape of the Tennessee Valley for the generation of hydroelectric power in the 1930s, laying the groundwork for the region’s integration to the continentalscale Manhattan Project in the following decade. Government management of scientific research and industrial production for military imperatives is identified as the origin of a characteristic Anthropocene mode of production which subsequently spread around the world, contributing decisively to the Great Acceleration of the global economy in the 1950s. Cast in the form of a “field guide” and addressed to a broad audience, the article suggests that sustained attention to anthropogenic patterns in any modernized landscape will reveal parallel developments of this mode of production.

本文为作者为文化计划密西西比创作的视听艺术品提供了话语补充。人类世河。它探索了现代化过程的哲学，技术和政治方面，这些方面重塑了田纳西河谷在1930年代用于水力发电的景观，为该地区在接下来的十年中融入洲际规模的曼哈顿项目奠定了基础。政府对军事活动的科学研究和工业生产的政府管理被确定为人类特有的生产方式的起源，该生产方式随后在世界范围内传播，对1950年代全球经济的巨大加速做出了决定性的贡献。以“现场指南”的形式投放并面向广大受众，