@article{discovery10137350,
           title = {Accessing Microbial Lifeworlds: Weird Entanglements and Strange Symbionts},
           pages = {1--21},
         journal = {Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture},
          volume = {7},
            year = {2020},
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        keywords = {endosymbiosis, microbial life, the weird, object-oriented ontology,
Anthropocene},
        abstract = {Beginning with an analysis of the discovery
of endosymbiosis-the finding that the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells are derived from
a once free-living bacterial ancestor-this paper is concerned with the sense of weirdness
that certain findings in microbiology have
the capacity to evoke. However, as the story
of endosymbiotic theory unfolds, it becomes
evident that the weirdness of microbial life
is not to be found only in the organisms' biological characteristics themselves, but also
in the dynamics of how these characteristics
have been successively framed and reframed
in scientific discourse. In this sense I argue
that the weirdness of the microbial world is
to be found in its recalcitrance and difficulty to be contained. This view is further supported through reference to contemporary
perspectives on the dependence of humans
upon microbes that displaces relations of symbiosis in favour of a less symmetrical
vision. The scale, complexity and unceasing
transpositions of microbial worlds means
they are constitutively withdrawn from
human access. The paper concludes with a
discussion of the relationships between the
biological features of microbial life worlds,
the onto-epistemological dynamics of our apprehension of these worlds, and the conception of the object-oriented ontology (OOO).
Rather than subsuming the weirdness of microbial worlds within a generalised frame of
weirdness, as gestured by OOO, I suggest that
an alternative ontology-that of subtending
relations-may more productively encompass human-microbe relations.},
             url = {https://475d6123-97bf-469e-95a0-3db117b8e08f.filesusr.com/ugd/b096b2\%5f351ffe65472b4edda1c880c504717962.pdf},
          author = {Bradshaw, A}
}