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Elizabeth R. Johnson

teaches environmental studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She writes about the bioeconomy, the study of marine organisms, and the labor of putting life to work.

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Lying Like Cuttlefish

By Elizabeth R. JohnsonSeptember 14, 2015
Fantasies of life-like machines decouple life from living. It is only from the position of being stuck in the world that we learn to engage with it anew
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