Microbes on the Mind

Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask, we were to think about museum collections not just as cultural or artistic objects, but also as equivalent to microbiological labs or as spaces for the cultivation of small beings?

Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019.

In this paper, I engage with Donna Haraway’s PhD-thesis turned book, “Crystals Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors that shape embryos (2004)”, first submitted in 1976. I presented the paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel.

Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the Associazone Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy.

“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits – the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the “scientific-poetic cinema”.”

When you take an evolutionary view of Earth, an astonishing reversal takes place. Suddenly, things that you think of as real—this cat over here, my cat, whose fur I can stroke—become the abstraction, an approximation of flowing, metamorphic processes, processes that are in some sense far more real than the entity I am stroking.

In August 2020, I will be presenting a paper on performative experimentation and collective memory-work at the digital conference Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds. The conference is organized by The European association for the study of science and technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science […]

This invitation to my colleagues in Microbes on the Mind kicked off two workshops with the method memory-work. The workshop course was a test-run of the memory-work method, an experiment and an engagement with Medical Museion’s exhibition Mind the Gut.

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An international conference on ‘Chronic living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century‘ will take place in Copenhagen 23-25 April 2020. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 November 2019. Medical Museion participates with a panel on ‘Living with microbes’. CLICK HERE FOR THE CALL Despite advances in medical treatments and technologies, many people […]