Strange Strangers (Morton)

Timothy Morton’s notion of “strange strangers” names beings that are irreducibly other yet never fully external. Every entity we encounter withdraws into its own unfathomable existence, appearing familiar while remaining opaque. The strange stranger disrupts comfort with neat ontological boundaries, insisting on relationality without assimilation. In ecological thought, it reframes coexistence as intimacy with radical alterity. To live among strange strangers is to dwell in a world thick with uncanniness.

/ Zarja Muršič

Scientific research into animal behaviour still rests on many deeply ingrained assumptions about what is deemed to be “natural” human behaviour. For example, men—males—are assumed by nature to be more dominant and aggressive than women—females. And if men are violent, then the violent behaviour of other male animals in the wild can supposedly be explained […]

/ Urška Škerl

When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]

/ Zaš Brezar

Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]

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