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BOOK REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS BY MARIO VEEN

TURNING TO STONE: What is it like to be a planet?

“We are fundamentally Earthlings,” writes Bjornerud in TURNING TO STONE. In the science fiction novella Story of your Life,[i] a linguist and a physicist attempt to initiate a dialogue with an extraterrestrial species hovering in spaceships above [...]

SAD PLANETS makes me happy

“Being an earthling in the present moment is an intrinsically sad proposition; arguably even sadder than previous incarnations due to the social dimension of disaster, hastening an already too fleeting finitude. In simpler terms, it did [...]

PODCAST SERIES: BEYOND HUMAN RELATIONS

Plural Perspectives with Erik Peters

Erik Peters (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer engaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytelling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of being. Their research-based and collaborative practice is [...]

About Organisms with Anton Poikolainen Rosén

Dr. Anton Poikolainen Rosén is a Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. His research focuses on sustainable futures in Human-Cumputer Interaction and more-than-human design. He works with ethnographic methods, research through design, [...]

Diversity of Being with Jelle van Dijk

Jelle van Dijk is a researcher, teacher, writer, speaker and he draws comics. He is an Assistant Professor in Human Centred Design at the University of Twente, amazed by people, who they are, what they do, and [...]

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