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What Is “Life” in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?

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What Is “Life” in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?

“What is life?” is a question recurrent in biology. In his 1944 book of that title, Erwin Schrödinger hypothesized that vitality might be carried by an aperiodi... More

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Theorizing the Contemporary

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How does the Anthropocene sound?1 Sound can provide an unexpected way into apprehending developments in the Anthropocene, or, to take Jussi Parikka’s (2015) ter... More

Homo microbis and the Figure of the Literal

Theorizing the Contemporary

Homo microbis and the Figure of the Literal

In Dorion Sagan’s body-boggling paper, we learn friendly and fiendish facts about human heritage: we are threaded through, more than we know and have known, wit... More