The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Biotechnologies and the Web of Life

The Synthetic Sacred is a new action-research initiative curated by Lucy Rose Sollitt that explores pathways for ecological restoration amidst hybridity. For this episode, we consider biotechnologies within the context of indigineous cosmologies. Might reframing biotechnologies i ...  Show more

Synthetic Life: A future 'Natural History'?

Episodes 19 and 20 of Talking Culture are dedicated to the new action-research initiative 'The Synthetic Sacred', which explores pathways for ecological restoration amidst hybridity. The initiative has been curated by Lucy Rose Sollitt and supported by the Goethe-Institut London. ...  Show more

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