Drosera
“At this present moment, I care more about Drosera than about the origin of all the species”, Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1860, “but I will not publish on Drosera till next year, for I am frightened and astounded...
Ode to Westlothiana
I sing thee, Westlothiana, mother of us all. You cannot hear my song; being embedded in the rock for 338 million years made you hard of hearing. Yet you heard; you were alive. It was a quiet time. Rain dropped...
Carnivorous Plants: An Introduction
To be considered carnivorous, a plant has to fit three criteria: actively attract and kill its prey, have developed a mechanism to digest it, and derive significant nutritional gain from the process. To be considered an ‘expert grower’ of carnivorous...
Playlist #20 (25-28 Feb)
25 February 2016, 8.30pm Occulto Night No. 1/16: Luca Sigurtà / She spread sorrow ACUD, Studio Raum (1st floor), Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin Yes, this is dirty self-promotion. Join! occultomagazine.com/occulto-night-no-116-luca-sigurta-she-spread-sorrow 27 February 2016, 8.30pm Alessandra Eramo & Michael Barthel |...
Playlist #19 (19-21 Feb)
19 February 2016, 9.30am Citizen Science in Historical Perspective MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Konferenzraum An intense day of presentations and debate dedicated to the history, the recent developments and the possible futures of Citizen Science, i.e. the active involvement...
Playlist #18 (11-14 Feb)
11-13 February 2016 Listening to the Archive. Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Science Various Venues, Berlin I discovered this when the official registration deadline (on February 4th) was already gone, and there’s no free spot left for...
Playlist #17 (20-24 Jan)
20 January 2016, 5pm BURP COMIX # 15 Release Rendez-Vous Staalplaat, Kienitzer Str. 108, Berlin + Balera Weinhandlung, Karl-Marx-Platz 6, Berlin Burp Enterprise is a multiheaded multiform entity responsible for no less than 25 years of research and experimentation with...
2016
Occulto and 2015 managed quite a few things together: A new issue, a new website, ten music events in five different Berlin venues and one in Milan, five publishers’ fairs. I promise the small, yet passionate and evergrowing bunch of...