Phenomenal Ocean
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
OCEAN WANTS: 03 Rise of Slime feat. Lisa-Ann Gershwin
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Five hundred million years ago the ocean was dominated by jellyfish. Thanks to us, humans, they might dominate the ocean again.In the third episode of...
OCEAN WANTS: 10 Ocean Nation feat. Markus Reymann
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the land is ruled by nations and super nations, the ocean is subject to the tragedy of the commons. What if the ocean turned into a nation of it...
OCEAN WANTS: 09 Deep Frontier feat. Diva Amon
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We can see stars thousands of light years away with our naked eye. About life in the deep sea we started to know only 200 years ago—and we still kno...
OCEAN WANTS: 08 Pain-Free Sea feat. David Pearce
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shouldn’t the reduction of suffering be our priority when taking care of others’ needs—particularly the needs of those we can’t ask? Soon, CRI...
OCEAN WANTS: 07 Canceled Ice Age feat. William Ruddiman
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the past 7000 years, humans have stabilized the global climate. The greenhouse gases emitted through deforestation, agriculture, and husbandry pre...
OCEAN WANTS: 06 Conservation Libido feat. Eva Hayward
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean refuses empathetic ethics based on sameness with us humans. What does the urge to save nature—in certain ways—reveal about us and our de...
OCEAN WANTS: 05 Translating Whales feat. David Gruber
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To know what other humans want, we can ask them. But pets aside, modern societies lost the confidence and interest in communicating with nonhumans. Co...
OCEAN WANTS: 04 Cephalopods on Land feat. Danna Staaf
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before fish and other vertebrates proliferated, it was the heyday of the cephalopods. Their descendants — squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus—...
OCEAN WANTS: 02 Self-Conscious Fish feat. Alex Jordan
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fish are compassionate, recognize themselves in the mirror, and fancy designed shelters over natural ones. Recent experiments contest common ideas of ...
OCEAN WANTS: 01 Coral Renaissance feat. Marah J. Hardt
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We celebrate coral reefs as the colorful rain forests of the ocean. How could we not just save and restore existing coral reefs but allow them to spre...
Corona Under the Ocean: Viewing from the Inside
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The tenth episode, with artist and filmmaker Su Yu Hsin, began with one of her many memories related to water, and how the appearance of light on wate...
Corona Under the Ocean: Political Action, Political Imagination
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ninth episode, with ship captain and sea rescue activist Carola Rackete, begins with her early research in the Arctic and Antarctic, and how she w...
Corona Under the Ocean: The colonial conditions of Western knowledge
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The eighth episode, with professor and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, begins with her idea of axioms of existence, which put in crisis the abstra...
Corona Under the Ocean: The Sea undoes the Land
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The seventh episode, with curator Camila Marambio is an approach to Tierra del Fuego from her personal experience with a part of the world with which ...
Corona Under the Ocean: Underwater Projections
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The sixth episode, with writer, lecturer, and curator Filipa Ramos is an approach to cinema from the ocean and to the ocean from cinema. Beyond the pr...
Corona Under the Ocean: Thinking with Water
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fifth episode, featuring feminist philosopher Astrida Neimanis, puts into practice one of the author's methodologies: “thinking with water.” A...
Corona Under the Ocean: Water has Memory
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth episode of the Corona Under the Ocean series, with agent of healing and artist Tabita Rezaire, is dedicated to the memory of water and its ...
Corona Under the Ocean: Sea Nomads: The Orang Suku Laut
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The third episode of the Corona Under the Ocean chapter, featuring anthropology professor Cynthia Chou, is dedicated to the Orang Suku Laut, a nomadic...
Corona Under the Ocean: We Are Ocean Life
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, featuring marine biologist Marah J. Hardt, is dedicated to the vitalism and resilience of the ocean. Outlining her personal journey as a...
Corona Under the Ocean: Oceanizing History
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of the series Corona Under the Ocean is dedicated to Oceania. Did you know that the Pacific Ocean was named so by Ferdinand Magellan...
Facts and Fiction
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our nature inclines us to listen to stories, not to lists, charts, and equations. To change our mind, we need a compelling narrative that turns obstac...
Law of the Sea
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If it’s already difficult to protect nature in our own country, how do we protect nature in the extraterritorial sea? And who is there to protect th...
Challenging the Format
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Science has to generate output. Art has to cater to an audience. Could art and science join forces to free science from definite outputs and art from ...
The Beginning of the Line
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We affirm ourselves as the center of evolution by saving it from our own destruction. Our new heroism is to keep things, at best, as bad as they are. ...
Not Enough Data
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We can’t exist beyond nature but science can? Now that we’re doomed, can we at least free science from us? Is the era of a true, posthuman science...
Introduction: The Disaster Is Behind Us
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We tried to free ourselves from nature but exploited it to the point of self-destruction. Nature seems to have brought us back, but we actually never ...