rhizomes and crochet
Image culled from here still thinking about rhizomes as a mode of knowledge and model for engagement and visualizing them as crochet… …multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.. A rhizome, on the other hand, is characterized by “ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to […]
a river is a person
thinking about the agency of ecologies “Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it has the standings of a person. In a landmark case for the Rights of Nature, officials in New Zealand recently granted the Whanganui, the nation’s third-longest river, with legal personhood “in the […]
plant communication
how can we translate these chemical sensitivities? When plant biologists speak of their subjects, they use active verbs and vivid images. Plants “forage” for resources like light and soil nutrients and “anticipate” rough spots and opportunities. By analyzing the ratio of red light and far red light falling on their leaves, for example, they […]