SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA
by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
The Impossible WE?
The Impossible WE? by Jonathan Rowson (original source: Emerge) A bigger ‘we’ is often called upon to take collective action to address our burning global emergencies. But ‘we’ is the […]
The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe
An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]
Being In An Environment: a performative perspective
This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]
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