#31: We belong to microbes (with Terike Haapoja) - a podcast by Aga Pokrywka

The notion of “animal rights”, meaning that we recognize their universal, intrinsic rights, regardless if some animals are more useful for humans or not, is being talked about more and more these days. However, we can’t fully understand the lives of animals, and as result, we can’t understand our own lives without microbes and our relationship with them. Our lives depend on them. In other words, we belong to them.
This episode revolves around speculative microbial perspectives in the work of Terike Haapoja. Terike is a visual artist based in New York, whose work investigates animality, multispecies politics, cohabitation, repairing connections, and the existential and political boundaries of our world. Her research and work put a special focus on issues that emerge from the anthropocentric worldview of Western traditions.

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