Emma McCormick Goodhart, “Paleoacoustic Accommodation,” e-flux Architecture (October 2019), ➝.
McCormick Goodhart, “Paleoacoustic Accommodation.” See subsection “An Acoustical Facsimile,” informed by the author’s conversations with Daniel Commins, as well as Commins’ subsequently published paper: Daniel E. Commins, Yves Coppens, and Takayudi Hidaka, “Acoustics of the Lascaux cave and its facsimile Lascaux IV,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, no. 2 (2020): 918–924.
Emma McCormick Goodhart, Exuviae, 2022, scent climate, and earamphore, with Jessika Kenney, 2022, multichannel sound installation. Exhibited in “Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary,” at Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom, September 23, 2022–January 22, 2023, and The Glucksman, Cork, April 7, 2023–July 9, 2023.
Additional sample inputs included manganese from Fort Stanton (New Mexico) and moonmilk depositional biomatrix from Tongass National Rainforest (Alaska), gifted by microbiologist Riley Drake.
Rachel Armstrong, “A Response to de Lorenzo’s ‘Towards a New Materialism’,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14, no. 1 (January 2025), 1–9, ➝.
Alex Fox, “How Rain Evolved Its Distinct Scent–and Why Animals and Humans Love It,” Smithsonian Magazine, April 17, 2020, ➝.
These are the kinds of proto-architectural hauntings of motion and matter-energy that interested Friedrich Kiesler.
Steven Connor, “Michel Serres’s Five Senses,” paper presented at Birkbeck College, May 1999.
My conversation with archaeologist Leslie Van Gelder in June 2022, a specialist in flutings, informed my understanding.
Donna Haraway, “Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908–1936,” Social Text, no. 11 (Winter, 1984–1985): 20–64, invoked in Nicholas C. Morgan, “Critique from Within and Without: The 1993 Whitney Biennial,” paper presented at College Art Association 113th Annual Conference, February 2025.
John Berger, “Past Present,” The Guardian, 12 October 2002, ➝. It should be mentioned that flutings were not limited to sapiens: extensive Neanderthal flutings in La Roche-Cotard, France, date to over 57,000 years ago.
T. Delgado et al., “Discriminating organic carbon from endokarstic moonmilk-type deposits by LIBS. The case of a natural carbonated Martian analogue,” Talanta 271 (1 May 2024).
W. Rudolph Reinbacher, “Is it Gnome, is it Berg, is it Mont, is it Mond? An Updated View of the Origin and Etymology of Moonmilk,” The National Speleological Society Bulletin 56 no. 1 (June 1994): 1–13.
Loïc Martinet et al., “Lunaemycins, New Cyclic Hexapeptide Antibiotics from the Cave Moonmilk-Dweller Streptomyces lunaelactis MM109T,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24, no. 2 (2023).
Berthold Laufer, Geophagy (Chicago: Field Museum Press, 1930), 190.
Instances gathered from Berthold Laufer’s Geophagy (1930) and W. Rudolph Reinbacher’s Healing Earths: The Third Leg of Medicine (2003). The Museum of Edible Earth, an online database and specimen library of edible soils from thirty-four different countries, is another useful resource.
Reinbacher, “Is it Gnome, is it Berg, is it Mont, is it Mond?”, 1-13.
Pamela H. Smith, “The Codification of Vernacular Theories of Metallic Generation in Sixteenth-Century European Mining and Metalworking,” in The Structures of Practical Knowledge, ed. Matteo Valleriani (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2017).
Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith and H. Hartman, eds., Clay Minerals and the Origin of Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
