The Annotated Garden can be accessed both online and in my garden at the Streven Naar Verbetering (Striving for Improvement) allotment, located near the centre of Rotterdam (NL). My garden is plot number 412, at the geographical coordinates 51.9261161, 4.4445143.
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The Writer’s Kitchen is based in the Rotterdam home of Renée Turner, Cesare Davolio, and Eliot Davolio. We invite artists, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, writers, and educators curious about expanding narrative forms to come develop ideas. Guests are by invitation only. Residents stay for a week or two to give concentrated time to writing, illustrating, working…
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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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