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Tiny Mining. Extracting minerals from our own body
While the demand for minerals to produce electronics, clean energy and the infrastructures that support them is skyrocketing, it is getting increasingly difficult, environmentally damaging and...
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Book review: Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness
In Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness, neuroscientist and writer Moheb Costandi examines how the brain generates maps and models of our body, how those maps translate into our conscious...
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Turning human tears into a mini marine ecosystem
Tears have a fairly complex composition. They contain water, of course, but also electrolytes (hence the saltiness), lipids and proteins. That liquid is pretty useful. It lubricates and protects the...
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The Anthropocene Cookbook. Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes
The Anthropocene Cookbook. Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes, by curator and writer Zane Cerpina and curator and researcher Stahl Stenslie. Published by MIT Press. The Anthropocene...
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Reconnecting with your dirty and harshly geological self
A review of the book Becoming Geological, edited by programmer, writer, performer, artist and explorer Martin Howse. Published by V2_Publishing. Humankind has always been dirty and harshly geological,...
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The Ecstasy of Dissection. David Cronenberg’s short film starring 18th...
If you were studying medicine in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you usually didn’t have access to corpse dissections at universities and hospitals. It wasn’t easy to obtain cadavers...
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Breast milk, estrogens and mummy’s boys
The Italian word “mammone” has negative connotations. A mammone is a mummy’s boy, an adult who relies on his mollycoddling mother for everything. He might even still be in his 30s or 40s and living...
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Podcast. Episode 9: Pinar Yoldas about AI leaders, extra sexual organs and...
Pinar Yoldas is the guest of the 9th episode of the podcast series I made with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in...
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Podcast. Episode 10: Maja Smrekar about transpecies motherhood, taboos and a...
Maja Smrekar is the guest of the 10th episode (and last, alas!) of the podcast series I made with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for...
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Lament: mourning ecologies after extreme wildfires
Australia, Greece, Canada, Spain, Siberia, Portugal, Italy, France, the Amazon, California, etc. Videos of wildfires have been appearing on our screens repeatedly and mercilessly, as we are moving...
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