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Peter Haff, “Technology as a geological phenomenon: Implications for human well-being,” in A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene, ed. C. N. Waters et al., (Geological Society, London, 2013).
Softness and fluidity are recurring themes in Luce Irigaray’s writings. For an overview of this topic, see Hanneke Canters and Grace M. Jantzen, Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions (Manchester University Press, 2005).
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996).
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Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (Fourth Estate, 1998).
See Laura Tripaldi, Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022).
For an overview of the theory of symbiogenesis and its implications for science and ecology, see Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet. A New Look at Evolution (Basic Books, 1999).
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See Philip Ball, “What on Earth Is a Xenobot?,” Aeon, August 30, 2022, ➝.
W. Tecumseh Fitch, “Nano-intentionality: A Defense of Intrinsic Intentionality,” Biology & Philosophy 23 (2008):157–177.
Haff, “Technology as a geological phenomenon.”
James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, (Penguin, 2022).
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