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 [...]
Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness
We live in a time when it is crucial to meditate, but also, as Bernard Stiegler put it, “an emergency whose urgency means that it precisely excludes meditation”. Reading is a form of meditation, a form [...]
PODCAST SERIES: BEYOND HUMAN RELATIONS
Credits to the Chicken with Catherine Oliver
Dr Catherine Oliver is a geographer and researcher currently working with urban chickens and keepers in London at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. From September of this year, she will be relocating to Lancaster [...]
Animal Technology with Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Animal-Computer Interaction at The University of Glasgow in Scotland (UK). Her research explores how animals interact with computer systems and how to designing and build methods to [...]
Voicing Non-human Life with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer studied history at the University of Utrecht, developed an art practice that moved into the field of digital culture. Since the late1990ies Klaas works at the intersections of culture, technology and ecology and I [...]
