Culture Machine

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Claudio Celis Bueno (guest-editor) Claudio Celis Bueno (PhD, Cardiff University) is a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of The…

Editorial

For the first time in 22 years, an issue of Culture Machine appears in languages other than English, reflecting not only the appreciation that the journal has received in recent…

A civilização do plástico / o plástico da civilização: maleabilidades – Evando Nascimento

PDF Todas as cores plásticas do ARCO-ÍRIS: o Homo plasticus. Bandeira desfraldada... Somos aquilo que fazemos, Homo poeticus. Há mais ou menos dois anos comecei a guardar e colecionar essas…

Cuerpos permeables: microbioma, imaginación y existencia compartida – Marilyn Payrol Morán

PDF Abstract In 2001, American geneticist Joshua Lederberg proposed the term ‘human microbiome’. Currently, this term refers to the broad ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that share…

The Case of Thinking Machines: Posthumanism and Techno-Human Hybrydity in Children’s Literature – Shubhneet Kaur Kharbanda

PDF Introduction Technological innovations in medical science, social media biotechnology, life extensions that fuse biology and technology have led to an unprecedented degree of intimacy and dependence between flesh and…

Imaginação Radical No/Para O Fim Do Mundo: Estudo, Fuga, Ou Alguns Sussurros Sobre Viver Outramente – Kevin Hacling Alves Gomes

PDF Abstract Lauren Olamina is the central character of the Earthseed series by black feminist, Afrofuturist science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (2018, 2019). Olamina is hyperempathic, which means that…

Relacionalidades humano-artefactuales. Lecturas de otra filosofía de la técnica – Natalia Fischetti

PDF Abstract Every epistemology refers to ontology. Relational ontologies question disciplinary knowledge and bet on multi-agential overlaps and entanglements between human beings and artifacts. This article interlinks some bets arising…

Para acabar con la imagen extractivista del pensamiento. Una ficción filosófica – Sara Baranzoni & Paolo Vignola

PDF Abstract Throughout the modern and contemporary history of Western thought, a systematic use of fictional devices has been made despite the supposed philosophical rigor that should divide logos from…

Imágenes materialistas para el Antropoceno. Giro geológico en las piezas Kasiterit (2019) y Altiplano (2018) – Iván Pinto Veas

PDF Abstract Within the multiple edges that are opened about the narratives of the Anthropocene, a “geological turn” (Bonneuil, 2015) is being discussed, thought as something that is beyond an…

Volver a signos y formas: de ficción, antropología y literatura – Andrea Torres Perdigón

PDF …we don’t usually notice the habits we in-habit. It is only when the world’s habits clash with our expectations that the world in its otherness, and its existent actuality…