Category Archives: Microbiology
Triatom
Nostocalgie de la Boue

The colonial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune (image from Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is a reference to the French phrase nostalgie de la boue, literally meaning “nostalgia for mud” and referring to a longing for social or sexual degradation.
Krustenkunst

Copepoda by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur / Artforms of Nature (1904)
Silicircle
• Photograph of diatoms collected in Russia and arranged on a microscope slide in 1952 by A.L. Brigger
Loricifera Rising

The very Lovecraftian Loriciferan Pliciloricus enigmaticus (Higgins & Kristensen, 1986)
N.B. The title of this incendiary intervention is a paronomasia on Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising (1972) (which I ain’t never seen nohow).

