SYNAPSE Workshop 2015 | June 30 – July 4, 2015
SYNAPSE 2015 – Evolution Day and the Beneficial Influences of Dust
From 29 June until 4 July, the Haus der Kulturen hosted an intense SYNAPSE 2015 workshop on the theme of “Ape Culture.” For the workshop, a group of eleven up-and-coming international curators participated in a dense programme of lectures, performances, and…
READ MORE AND COMMENTScientists announce the Sixth Mass Extinction
With only one more week to go until the next SYNAPSE workshop focusing on human–animal relations, here is a newly released scientific article that’s worth reading! Under the long title “Accelerated Modern Human–Induced Species Losses: Entering The Sixth Mass Extinction,” a…
READ MORE AND COMMENT‘Alien Talk’ Summer School at The Barber Shop – Deadline: 21June
Alien Talk A Summer School at The Barber Shop 11 – 17 August 2015 In the peak of summer, The Barber Shop invites you to an intensive programme dedicated to science fiction. As postmodernity’s horizon of reflection is replaced…
READ MORE AND COMMENTEAT DRINK MAN WOMAN APE
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN APE And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green…
READ MORE AND COMMENTStarted today: BBC Radio 4’s new programme “Natural Histories”
Starting today, the BBC’s Radion 4 has launched a new 25-part programme series entitled “Natural Histories.” The programme is produced in partnership with the London Natural History Museum and the initial episode happens to be on “Apes and Monkeys.” It…
READ MORE AND COMMENT100 DAYS OF NATURAL HISTORY
Hello! I am posting from Jakarta again, having returned to participate in a workshop experiment at the Biology Research Center of the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), which Etienne Turpin and I initiated together with our colleagues at Komunitas Salihara,…
READ MORE AND COMMENTSpeculative Dust
“Elevage de poussieres; didn’t we raise the dust, though, old boy” -Man Ray The above mentioned quote is by the artist Man Ray in response to his photograph, “Dust Breeding”, which he took of Marcel Duchamp’s “Large Glass” as it…
READ MORE AND COMMENTAPE ART (and other kinds of order)
We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves. The biological sciences’ focus on monkeys and apes has sought to make visible both the form and the history of our personal and social bodies. — Donna Haraway, Simians,…
READ MORE AND COMMENTMegan Liberty reviews intercalations event at Printed Matter, NYC, for hyperallergic
Linking to Megan Liberty’s review of Fantasies of the Library and the intercalations event at Printed Matter, New York, on 10 April that was published today on the hyperallergic blog: Front to Top, Back to Bottom, A New Book…
READ MORE AND COMMENTJason Groves reviews “Fantasies of the Library”: Reading at the Roche Limit
Linking to Jason Groves‘s review of Fantasies of the Library published yesterday on the Feedback blog Jason co-edits for Open Humanitities Press: Reading at the Roche Limit: A Review of “Fantasies of the Library” by Jason Groves In commemoration of National…
READ MORE AND COMMENTBook recommendations
Vincent Normand - Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (1985)