Leaving Gridworld

Provincializing Electricity by Émile St-Pierre (Osaka University) emil.stpierre@gmail.com October 23, 2020 . In the beginning, there was the steam machine. Or so starts one of the ways the Anthropocene story has been told. Much like the biblical Genesi…

Attunements to Fog

Capture as an Idiom for More-than-Human Entanglements by Chakad Ojani, PhD student (University of Manchester) chakad.ojani@gmail.com January 30, 2020 We have barely finished installing Sergio’s fog catcher before he exclaims: “Look how the water is tri…

Steps to an Ecology of Spirits

Comparing Feelings of More-than-Human, Immaterial Meshworks? by Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) deantoni@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp June 20, 2018 “So, do you believe in spirits?” I have been asked this question countless times, by my research p…

Contemplating the Robotic Embrace

Introspection for Affective Anthropology by Daniel White (Free University of Berlin) daniel.white@fu-berlin.de June 20, 2018 The first time I held a robot in my arms I was overcome with a wave of sympathy. Pepper had arrived in our laboratory in a larg…

From Mad Cows to Posthumanism

Alan Smart (University of Calgary): “Posthumanism, as I use the term, means the ways in which we are entangled with non-humans, and which expand our capacities (although in other ways they may diminish them, as with disease).  Rather than being a featu…