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Author
Title
Type
David Abram

The Spell of the Sensuous:
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Vintage Books, 1996
- PDF
Ravi Agarwal

Lost Voices
Listening in the Anthropocene
In: Anthropocene Curriculum, 2020
- WWW
Ravi Agarwal Omita Goyal

The Crisis of Climate Change
Weather Report
Routledge, 2022
- WWW
Chloe Ahmann Alison Kenner

Breathing Late Industrialism
In: Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 6, 2020
- WWW
- PDF
Jamie Allen

Metabolising Media:
Incorporating a Nightshade
In: Accesos. Revista de investigación artística, vol. 7, 2024
- PDF
Jamie Allen

Metabolic Futuring
In: Counter-N, 2024
- PDF
Francesca Ambrogio

Air as a Design Tool:
Raw Material, Infra-material Space, and Transformative Matter
Springer, 2023
- WWW
- PDF
Gabriel O. Apata

‘I Can’t Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism
In: Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 37, 2020
- WWW
Mike Baker Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Manny Fernandez Michael LaForgia

Three Words. 70 Cases.
The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.’
In: NY Times, 2020
- WWW
Karen Bakker

The Sounds of Life
How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
Ideas podcast: Princeton University, 2022
- Listen
Karen Bakker

The Sounds of Life:
How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
Princeton University Press, 2022
- WWW
- PDF
Daniel Barber

Modern Architecture and Climate:
Design before Air Conditioning
Princeton University Press, 2020
- WWW
Maan Barua

Metabolic geographies:
Work, shifts and politics
In: Progress in Human Geography, vol. 49, no. 2, 2025
- WWW
- PDF
Maan Barua

Metabolic politics:
A comparative synthesis
In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 50, 2024
- WWW
- PDF
Maan Barua

The Electropolis and Animal Life
Infrastructure in a Minor Key
Weitzman School of Design at Penn, November 4, 2021
- Watch
Maan Barua

Lively Cities
Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
University of Minnesota Press, 2023
- WWW
Maan Barua Thomas White David Nally

Rescaling the metabolic
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020
- WWW
Maan Barua

The Metropolis and Metabolic Life
In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2024
- WWW
Eds.: Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Terike Haapoja

Fieldnotes
From Landscape to Laboratory
- PDF
Caitlin Berrigan

Atmospheres of the Undead
Living with viruses, loneliness, and neoliberalism
In: MARCH Journal, 2020
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Jeremy Bolen Emily Eliza Scott Andrew Yang

Sensing the Insensible
Anthropocene Curriculum HKW, 2016
- WWW
Anne Boyer

The Heavy Air
Capitalism and affronts to common sense
In: The Yale Review, vol. 108, 2020
- WWW
Callum Bradley Georgina Perkins

In-human appetites and mineral becomings
In: Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2023
- PDF
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Carol Brown

The Air Between Us
In: Performance of the Real, vol. 2 Performing Ecologies, 2021
- WWW
Forensic Architecture Imani Jacqueline Brown, Samaneh Moafi (Coordinators)

Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
- WWW
Nerea Calvillo

Aeropolis:
Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds
Columbia University Press, 2023
- WWW
Nerea Calvillo

Atmospheric Infrastructures to Deal with the Toxic Air in a Common World
In: Ardeth, 5, 2019
- WWW
- PDF
Nerea Calvillo

Sensing Polluted Airs
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL, 2022
- Watch
Nerea Calvillo

Feminist Sensing in Aeropolis
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow / Online, 2020
- Watch
Nerea Calvillo

Particular Sensibilities
In: e-flux Architecture, Accumulation, 2018
- WWW
Nerea Calvillo

Inviting Atmospheres to the Architecture Table
In: Inventing the Social, Eds.: Marres, N., Guggenheim, M., and Wilkie, A, 2018
Mattering Press, 2018
- WWW
- PDF
Nerea Calvillo Nick Shapiro

New Nature - Artist Talk
Goethe Institute, Montreal, CA, 2020
- Watch
Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
The Queen Mary Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Online, 2021
- Watch
Tim Choy

Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy:
Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning
In: Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice, 2021
Duke University Press, 2021
- PDF
Nigel Clark Bronislaw Szerszynski

Planetary Social Thought
Science for the Anthropocene | Host: David Tyfield, 2022
- Listen
Emanuele Coccia

In Open Air
Ontology of the Atmosphere
In: The Life of Plants : A Metaphysics of Mixture, 2018
Polity Press, 2018
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Steven Connor

The Matter of Air
Science and Art of the Ethereal
Reaktion Books, 2010
- WWW
Heather Davis

The Land and Water and Air That We Are:
Some Thoughts on COP21
In: SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ: International Arts and Culture, 2016
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Design Earth

Georama of Trash
In: Technosphere Magazine, 2019
- WWW
Eds.: Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards

The Material Kinship Reader
Material Beyond Extraction and Kinship Beyond the Nuclear Family
Onomatopee, 2022
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Paul Dobraszczyk Joyce Hwang Richard Fadok

Animal Architecture
In: Places Journal, 2025
- WWW
Sophie Dyer Sasha Engelmann

When we image the earth, we imagine another
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL, 2022
- Watch
Torkwase Dyson Itziar Okariz

Wet-Togetherness — Breathing
Shanghai Biennale on e-flux, 2021
- Listen
Paul N. Edwards

A Vast Machine
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
MIT Press, 2010
- WWW
- PDF
Sasha Engelmann

Toward a poetics of air: sequencing and surfacing breath
In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 40, 2015
- PDF
Sasha Engelmann Sophie Dyer Lizzie Malcolm Daniel Powers

Open-weather:
Speculative-feminist propositions for planetary images in an era of climate crisis
In: Geoforum, vol. 137, 2022
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Sasha Engelmann

Dryden Goodwin's Breathe:
art, science and the invisible
In: Environmental Scientist , 2012
- PDF
Sasha Engelmann

Sensing Art in the Atmosphere
Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices
Routledge, 2021
- WWW
Desiree Foerster

Atmospheric Sensing:
On the Aesthetic of Interrelations with Environments
In: Venti Journal, 2022
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Desiree Foerster

Awareness for Atmospheres
In: Excursions, Vol. 11: (Re)Connect, 2021
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Desiree Foerster

Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes
Meson Press, 2021
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John Bellamy Foster

Marx’s Ecology:
Materialism and Nature
Monthly Review, 2000
- WWW
John Bellamy Foster

Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift :
Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology
In: American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 2, 1999
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Adam Frank

The Coming Second Copernican Revolution
In: Noema Magazine, 2024
- WWW
Jennifer Gabrys

Atmospheric Citizens:
How to Make Breathable Worlds
Melbourne School of Design, AU, 2022
- Watch
Jennifer Gabrys

Sensing Air and Generating Worlds of Data
In: Technosphere Magazine, Spheres Issue, 2016
- WWW
Jennifer Gabrys

Citizens of Worlds
Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle
Minnesota University Press, 2022
- WWW
- PDF
Jennifer Gabrys

How to Do Things with Sensors
Minnesota University Press, 2019
- WWW
Jennifer Gabrys Helen Pritchard Nerea Calvillo Nick Shapiro Tom Keene

Becoming Civic—Fracking, Air Pollution, and Environmental Sensing Technologies
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice, 2016
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Magdalena Górska

Breathing Matters: Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability
Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, 2016
- PDF
Magdalena Górska

Why Breathing Is Political
In: Lambda Nordica, vol. 1, 2021
- PDF
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Undrowned:
Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Charis Books, 2020
- Watch
Donna Jeanne Haraway

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
Yale University Press, 1976
- PDF
Donna Jeanne Haraway

The Haraway Reader
Routledge, 2004
- PDF
N. Katherine Hayles

An Integrated Cognitive Framework
In: Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts, 2025
University of Chicago Press, 2025
- PDF
Katherine N. Hayles

Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts
In: The Philosopher, 2024
- Watch
Eds.: Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw

In the Nature of Cities:
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Routledge, 2006
- WWW
- PDF
Eva Horn

The Case of Air
In: Anthropocene Curriculum, 2022
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Eva Horn

Air as Medium
In: Grey Room, vol. 73, 2018
- WWW
- PDF
Eva Horn

Being in the air:
An intellectual and aesthetic history of climate
Moore Institute, University of Galway, IE, 2021
- Watch
Eva Horn

Air Conditioning
A Cultural History of Climate Control
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, AT, 2017
- Watch
Elise Misao Hunchuck Marco Ferrari Jingru (Cyan) Cheng

Prologue to the Sky River
In: The Avery Review, vol. 53, 2021
- WWW
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Eds.: Daniel Ibañez and Nikos Katsikis

New Geographies 06:
Grounding Metabolism
Harvard University Press, 2014
- WWW
- PDF
Tim Ingold

On Breath and Breathing: A Concluding Comment
In: Body & Society, vol. 26, 2020
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Marek Jancovic

A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
- PDF
Omotayo T. Jolaosho

The Enduring Urgency of Black Breath
In: Anthropology News, 2021
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Anneleen Kenis Maarten Loopmans

Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution
In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 40, 2022
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Alison Kenner

Breathtaking
Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change
Minnesota University Press, 2018
- WWW
- PDF
Alison Kenner Aftab Mirzaei Christy Spackman

Breathing in the Anthropocene:
Thinking Through Scale with Containment Technologies
In: Cultural Studies Review, vol. 25, 2019
- PDF
Shahram Khosravi

The Archive of Stolen Breaths
In: Breathe - Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life, 2023
transcript, 2023
- WWW
Anna Krzywoszynska

Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources
Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor
In: Environmental Humanities, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020
- WWW
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Delali Kumavie

From Where Do We Draw Breath? Air's Absence and Blackness
In: SubStance, vol. 52 no. 1, 2023
- WWW
- PDF
Friederike Landau-Donnelly Alexandra Toland

Towards a sensory politics of the Anthropocene: Exploring activist-artistic approaches to politicizing air pollution
In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 40, 2020
- WWW
Hannah Landecker Kumi Naidoo Susan Schuppli

Metabolic Selves | A Conversation
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 2020
- Watch
Bruno Latour

Air-Condition
In: Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, 2005
MIT Press, 2005
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Max Liboiron Manuel Tironi Nerea Calvillo

Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world
In: Social Studies of Science, vol. 48, 2018
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Sachit Mahajan Jennifer Gabrys Joanne Armitage

AirKit: A Citizen-Sensing Toolkit for Monitoring Air Quality
In: Sensors, Air Quality Internet of Things Devices, Special Issue, 2021
- WWW
Denis Maksimov Timo Tuominen Tomás Saraceno

AEROCENE MANIFESTO. AERONAUTS UNITE!
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Yadvinder Malhi

The Metabolism of a Human-dominated Planet
In: Is the Planet Full?, 2014
Oxford University Press, 2014
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Lynn Margulis

Symbiotic Planet:
A New Look At Evolution
Basic Books, 1999
- PDF
Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Images of Pollution and the Pollution of Images:
Postindustrial Landscapes on and through Film
In: Environmental Humanities, vol. 17, no. 1, 2025
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Achille Mbembe

The Universal Right to Breathe
In: Critical Inquiry, vol. 47, 2021
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Achille Mbembe

The Universal Right to Breathe:
Colonialism & the Ethics Of Memory
Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures, Universität Bayreuth, DE, 2020
- Watch
Alexander McAdie

The Principles of Aërography
Rand McNally & Company, 1916
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Jason W. Moore

Metabolic rift or metabolic shift?
Dialectics, nature and the world-historical method
In: Theory and Society, vol. 46, 2017
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Jason W. Moore

Towards a singular metabolism:
Epistemic rifts and environment-making in the capitalist world ecology
In: Grounding Metabolism, 2014
Harvard University Press, 2014
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Astrida Neimanis Jennifer Mae Hamilton

Weathering
In: Feminist Review, vol. 118, 2018
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Astrida Neimanis

Bodies of Water
Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
- WWW
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Huiying Ng

Soil’s Metabolic Rift
Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium
In: Technosphere Magazine, 2019
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Victoria Nguyen

Breathless in Beijing:
Aerial Attunements and China’s New Respiratory Publics
In: Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 6, 2020
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Marijn Nieuwenhuis

Porous skin: Breathing through the prism of the holey body
In: Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 33, 2019
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Sandra Noeth Janez Janša (eds)

BREATHE
Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life
transcript, 2023
- WWW
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Anthea Oestreicher

Breathing with Phytoplankton
Exploring metabolic connections with oceanic microbes
In: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, vol. 3, 2024
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Open Weather Rectangle

When I image the earth, I imagine another
Library Stack / NN Contemporary Art, 2023
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Rebecca Oxley Andrew Russell

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World
In: Body & Society, vol. 26, 2020
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Erica Petrillo (2050+)

Notes on Air
In: Salt Blog, 2024
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Chloe Kathleen Preedy

Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage
Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609
Oxford University Press, 2022
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Helen V Pritchard (ed) Femke Snelting (ed)

Infrastructural Interactions:
Survival, Resistance and Radical Care
The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, 2022
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Helen Pritchard

Thinking with the Animal-Hacker
Articulation in Ecologies of Earth Observation
In: APRJA, vol. 2 no. 1, 2013
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Giulia Rispoli Jacques Grinevald

Vladimir Vernadsky and the Co-evolution of the Biosphere, the Noosphere, and the Technosphere
In: Technosphere Magazine, 2019
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Ala Roushan

Breathless
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2021
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Ala Roushan Charles Stankievech

Shaping Atmospheres: From Terraforming Land to Geoengineering Air
In: Afterall, vol. 55-56, 2023
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Kohei Saito

Marx in the Anthropocene
Value, Metabolic Rift, and the Non-Cartesian Dualism
In: Jurnal IndoProgress, vol. II, no. 01, 2022
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Susan Schuppli

Material Witness
Media, Forensics, Evidence
MIT Press, 2020
- WWW
- PDF
Susan Schuppli

Material Witness
Visual Culture Department, Goldsmiths , 2021
- Watch
Susan Schuppli

Earth Evidence
Garage, Moscow, 2019
- Watch
Sri Shankar Sharma

Power Sector Road Map for Tamil Nadu – 2050
A people centric and environmentally sustainable action plan between 2016 and 2050 with a strong focus on Climate Change imperatives
Mitramaadhyama Trust, 2016
- PDF
Sri Shankar Sharma

Integrated Power Policy
A frame work for people-centric, environment-friendly and sustainable power policy
- WWW
Lenart Škof Petri Berndtson

Atmospheres of Breathing
SUNY Press, 2018
- WWW
Peter Sloterdijk

Airquakes
In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 27, 2009
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Carolyn Steel

Sitopia:
The Power of Thinking Through Food
In: Technosphere Magazine, 2019
- WWW
Erik Swyngedouw Nikolas C Heynen

Urban political ecology, justice and the politics of scale
In: Antipode, vol. 35, 2003
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Bronislaw Szerszynski

The Anthropocene monument:
On relating geological and human time
In: European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 20, 2017
- WWW
Watsuji Tetsuro

A Climate
A Philosophical Study
Printing bureau Japanese Government, 1961 (original 1935)
- PDF
Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Breathing Aesthetics
Duke University Press, 2022
- WWW
Anna L. Tsing Jennifer Deger Alder Keleman Saxena Feifei Zhou

Feral Atlas
The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
- WWW
UN News / Conor Lennon

Polluted air still kills millions, but solutions are on the horizon
In: The Lid is On (UN Podcast Series), 2022
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Thom van Dooren Eben Kirksey Ursula Münster

Multispecies Studies:
Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness
In: Environmental Humanities, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016
- WWW
Vladimir Vernadsky

The Biosphere
Copernicus, 1998 [1926]
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Vladimir Vernadsky

The Transition from the Biosphere to the Noösphere
In: Antikythera: Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation, 2025
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Jakob von Uexküll

A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
With a Theory of Meaning
University of Minnesota Press, 1934
- PDF
- PDF
Andreas Weber

Enlivenment:
Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
MIT Press, 2019
- WWW
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Andreas Weber

Whole Earth Talk #3
- Watch
Phoebe Weston Tess McClure

The Life of Plastic
In: The Guardian, 2025
- WWW
Damian F. White Brian J. Gareau Alan P. Rudy

Ecosocialisms, Past, Present and Future
From the Metabolic Rift to a Reconstructive, Dynamic and Hybrid Ecosocialism
In: Capitalism Nature Socialism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2017
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Alfred North Whitehead

Nature Lifeless
In: Modes of Thought, 1938
Macmillan, 1938
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Matthew C. Wilson

A Drift
In: Anthropocene Curriculum, 2022
- WWW
Matthew C. Wilson

Geological Evidences
In: Anthropocene Curriculum, 2022
- WWW
Derek Woods

Prosthetic Symbiosis
In: The New Centennial Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2022
- WWW
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Ed Yong

The Microbes Within Us
The Royal Institution, UK, 2016
- Watch
Ed Yong

An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Penguin Random House, 2023
- PDF
Jerry Zee

Breathing in the City: Beijing and the Architecture of Air
In: Scapegoat, vol. 8, 2015
- PDF
Amy Zhang

Circularities and Enclosure:
Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly
In: Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 35, Issue 1, 2020
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