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Martine Dirkzwager Wu

With a background in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Master’s in History, Martine Dirkzwager Wu is intrigued by researching what the new conditions for the Humanities are in the age of the Anthropocene. In trying to understand a fundamentally unintelligible world, her thought process aims to be as critical as creative. She celebrates an era of post-truth in which knowledge can be traced through academic, but also natural and artistic networks.

Martine Dirkzwager Wu

With a background in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Master’s in History, Martine Dirkzwager Wu is intrigued by researching what the new conditions for the Humanities are in the age of the Anthropocene. In trying to understand a fundamentally unintelligible world, her thought process aims to be as critical as creative. She celebrates an era of post-truth in which knowledge can be traced through academic, but also natural and artistic networks.

Latest articles

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Breaking the bottleneck

Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?

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Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

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Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management

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Inspiration

Online magazine

The Strelka Institute's magazine collects a series of essays and articles on New Urban Conditions, which problematizes existence in the increasingly tech-savvy infrastructures. The texts reflect greatly on architecture and design, how these relate to users and the landscapes they populate while recognizing the imminent threat of anthropogenic climate change.

At the intersection between technology and music stands Arca in collaboration with AI and AR to create musical worlds that play around speculative elements of our cyborgian future. The way Arca creates sounds and sounds themselves question certain ontological assumptions, allowing for conversations too sensitive for the physical world to be carried out virtually.

Cannibal Metaphysics

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro proposes an alternative way of anthropological practice that understands collectives through their corresponding style of thought, in relation to their own relations. Cannibal Metaphysics analyses Amerindian schemes of thought through the relevant Amerindian cosmology, marking an ontological turn towards perspectivism and multinaturalism.