ANTHROPO-ECCENTRISM

Beyond the edge of the so-called human, beyond it but by no means on a single opposing side, rather than “The Animal” or “Animal Life” there is already a heterogeneous multiplicity of the living, or more precisely (since to say “the living” is already to say too much or not enough), a multiplicity of organization of relations between living and dead, relations of organization or lack of organization among realms that are more and more difficult to dissociate by means of the figures of the organic and inorganic, of life and/or death. —Jacques Derrida

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The White God 1: Kurtz

He’s been haunting me. In the past few months, he’s been following me in the books I’ve been…

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The Octopus World

As a huge fan of octopuses (and cephalopods in general) I can’t resist sharing this amazing image…

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Marking Territory: Pollution as Appropriation in Serres' Malfeasance

In Malfeasance: Appropriation through Pollution?French philosopher of science Michel Serres makes…

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A Cause for Young People

A cause for young people is not a supplement of the soul; it is the very future of a society, of a civilization, a culture, and must be worshipped. Young people of the twenty-first century have a right to something other than to be policed: they have a…

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Numbers or Souls? Angelo Musco's Ecotechnical Bodyscapes

Angelo Musco. Xylem. 2011. Metallic C-Print mounted between Aluminum and Plexi-glass. 8′x20′.Angelo Musco. Xylem detail. 2011. Metallic C-Print mounted between Aluminum and Plexi-glass. 8′x20′.Angelo Musco. Xylemdetail. 2011. Metallic C-Print…

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Floris Kaayk's Visions of Emergence 1: "The Order Electrus"

O nature, nature, life will not perish! . . . [I]t will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all we did and built will mean nothing—our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will…

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Tiny Free Library

Walking my dog this morning, I discovered this curious little booth in a neighbour’s yard, which…

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Backyard Magic

On Saturday, I witnessed a paleoanthropological event in my own backyard when my three-year old son began to perform some sort of ritual nature magic.

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Pictured here is the talisman that he constructed to imprison…

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What is the Grass? Watching How to Grow a Planet

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I…

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Allegories of Occupation

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Allegories of Occupation

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Allegories of Occupation

Our Lady of Liberty Park. Molly Crabapple. 2012-13. “Occupy Wall Street. An anatomy of Zuccotti…

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Pigs, Cucumbers, and Cloacal Martial Arts

“True Facts about the Sea Pig” is the latest in an ongoing series of irreverent minidocs by zefrank…

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New Talk: The Hen Electric and the Mechanical Boy

“The Hen Electric and the Mechanical Boy: Joey, Bruno Bettelheim, and the Empty Fortresses of Humanism.” Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, “Nonhuman,” Hilton, Milwaukee, WI, 28 September…

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He's Being Replaced . . . by a Human!

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  Director James Cunningham and a team of student animators from the Media Design Schoolin Auckland, New Zealand, imagine a future of robot labour that is certainly less typical than the usual “armed…

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Roomba Art

“Web of Roomba.” Photograph by Matt Apps, 2011. 42 minute exposure.“IBR Roomba Swarm in the Dark XVI.” IBRoomba, 2009. Part of a “Roomba Art” picture series produced by Tobias Baumgartner, Marcus Brandenburger, Tom Kamphans, Alexander Kroeller, and…

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Dissertation Reviews on Creatures of Artifice

“Roomba Long Exposure.” Photograph by Chris Bartle, 2009. Forty-five minute exposure of a Roomba…

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