The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
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The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
An enquiry into non-human, human and artificial minds
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an edited collection that brings together interventions across the arts, the humanities, and the sciences to investigate animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience, and interspecies communication.
Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, the publication includes original conversations, essays, interviews, meditations, poems, and artwork representations by 100 authors - activists, anthropologists, artists, biologists, ecologists, gardeners, musicians, philosophers, theologians, and more.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783775755757
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 June 2025
Country: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Illustration: 50 Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Edited by Filipa Ramos
- Designed by Giles Round
- Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 253.0mm
Weight: 1380g
Pages: 492
About the Author
Curator LUCIA PIETROIUSTI is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London and the founder of the General Ecology project (2018-ongoing). Pietroiusti works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems. She is the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale) and the co-editor of the reader More-than-Human (2020).
The research of author and curator FILIPA RAMOS focuses on how culture addresses ecology, attending to how contemporary art fosters relationships between nature and technology. She is curator of Art Basel Film and lecturer at the Arts Institute of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, where she leads the Art and Nature seminars.
Includes texts by: Peter Gabriel, Anna L. Tsing, Natasha Myers, Elvia Wilk, Elaine Gan, Tim Ingold, Elizabeth Povinelli, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Merlin Sheldrake, Superflex, Jenna Sutela, Karrabing Film Collective, Asad Raza, Andrew Adamatzky, Yussef Agbo-Ola (Olaniyi Studio), Sophia Al-Maria, Allora & Calzadilla + Ted Chiang, Saelia Aparicio, Chloe Aridjis, Heather Barnett, Antoine Bertin.
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