In this short film, we explain what distinguishes living from non-living things. It covers three main aspects in which they differ. Organization: life is not different from non-life in terms of what [...] Read more

Noble, R., & Noble, D. (2023). Understanding Living Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Key Concepts and Arguments 1. Critique of Gene-Centrism The book challenges the notion that [...] Read more

The overwhelming success of genetics and molecular biology in the 1970s had an unfortunate side effect. DNA became the 'be all' and 'end all' of biology and “the selfish gene” became the new [...] Read more

Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso Books. ​Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. [...] Read more

Citton, Y. (2025). Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds (D. Broder, Trans.). Verso. Overview and Central Thesis Mythocracy is a theoretical exploration of how narratives—particularly [...] Read more

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. Impacts [...] Read more

The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguistic [...] Read more

Spinoza, B. (2018). Ethics - Proved in Geometrical Order (Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kisner, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1677) Overview 1.1. Purpose and [...] Read more

Baudrillard, Jean. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. Translated by Chris Turner. London: Sage Publications, 1998. Originally published 1970. Overview Jean Baudrillard’s The Consumer [...] Read more