The Annotated Garden & Compost weave creative non-fiction and digital dramaturgy to meditate on garden pedagogies and ecological precarity, technological acceleration, and the entanglement of environmental and machinic systems. The Annotated Garden gathers site-rooted stories from a small urban allotment in Rotterdam, a plot threatened by encroaching property development and the climate crisis. Activated through QR…
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Edited by Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner and The Promiscuous Care Study Group. (2024) How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives? The manual Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures,…
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Extract from my 2025 essay, In the Substrate: I find it revealing, if not moving, that Alan Turing’s 1950 seminal essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence was published in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy rather than in a science or mathematics journal. The learning machine, as he describes it, is not simply a servant but a pupil. As…
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In his book Landmarks, the English nature writer Robert McFarlane advocates for the creation of “a glossary of enchantment for the whole earth, which would allow nature to talk back and would help us to listen.”* While cataloguing the earth might prove too daunting, this two-day writing workshop with guests Kate Briggs and Kate Pullinger offers a modest step…
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