Sublime

There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.

Enlightenment thinkers once disparaged animist ideas as backwards and unscientific. They considered them to be a barrier to capitalist expansion, and sought desperately to stamp them out. But today science is beginning to catch up. Biologists are discovering that humans are not standalone individuals, but composed largely of microorganisms on which

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Suzanne Simard’s groundbreaking research reveals that fungi and trees “forged their duality into a oneness, thereby making a forest.”18 She shows that the health of the trees depends on their relationship with what grows beneath the surface. The denizens of dark soil – fungi, bacteria, and viruses – provide a seemingly

For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa – but not just the eastern savannahs, as previously thought: our biological ancestors were distributed everywhere from Morocco to the Cape.3 Some of those populations remained isolated from each another for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, cut off from their nearest

what their blood codes told them to do.