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Human–nonhuman alliances
Artists explore relationships with animals, plants, and ecosystems to rethink humanity’s position within the natural world.
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Chimeric Antibodies 1
Hybrid anatomical drawings fuse human, plant, and machinic forms to destabilize fixed notions of the body, sexuality, and gender, staging a posthuman symbiosis where organic and technological agencies become inseparable. By invoking alchemical energy diagrams and historical scientific illustration, the work critiques how representational regimes and imaging technologies co-produce “nature” and knowledge, sustaining an oscillation between empirical authority and speculative imagination.
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The Mediated Plant
Mediated vegetal life—made legible through graphs, polygraphs, time-lapse cinema, and other imaging apparatuses—functions as a post-natural figure that destabilizes human exceptionalism by granting plants a contested visibility of agency, affect, and intentionality. By mobilizing ecofeminism, queer ecocriticism, decolonial anthropology, and film theory’s animism, the text reframes “anthropomorphism” as a potentially critical tactic for re-enchanting perception and forging political alliances against extractive capitalism’s intertwined ecological and social violences.
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Closing Editorial
A “supercommunity” names an enforced, post-humanist togetherness defined less by solidarity than by coerced proximity, bad-faith intimacy, and the collapse of liberal-progress narratives into an apocalyptic present where life/death and human/nonhuman boundaries destabilize. Drawing on ecological entanglement, media-technological mediation, and critiques of late liberal governance, it frames contemporary sociality as powered by corruption and opacity, while art and information become speculative instruments within a world-machine that is ungovernable and newly animated.
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Gated Commune
Gated Commune stages a speculative clash between neo-primitive and techno-futurist design ideologies to expose how sustainable-development rhetoric and branding produce environments that are formally coherent yet socially dysfunctional, foreclosing rest, encounter, and genuine freedom through managed spatial scripts. By critiquing Anthropocene human-centeredness and the technocratic language that claims accessibility while serving opaque interests, the work frames sustainability discourse as a politics of design, governance, and exclusion.
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